Alum Rock
7 grade Life Science Curriculum Map
th
2014-2015
Weekly chart attached after this summary.
1st Quarter: This is an introduction to some Life Science BIG ideas to provide a
foundation for all students to develop an understanding of Biological concepts.
Topics: Tools, Scientific Method, Classification of Living Organisms, Cells, Insects.
Big Projects: Cell model, Insect collection, Insect report.
Trades & math connections: Insect collection box diagram and construction
Math Standards: Measurement, scientific notation, metric conversion
Text books used: G = Glencoe new edition, H = Holt previous adoption, but still a great
book!
Common Core Language Arts Standards are listed below and detailed examples are in
the weekly chart.
Language Arts: 7th Grade English CA Common Core Standards in Writing:
2b Develop the topic Develop the topic with relevant, facts, definitions, concrete details,
quotations, or other information and examples.
2c. Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among
ideas and concepts.
2d. Use precision language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain
the topic.
2e. Establish and maintain a formal style.
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from
alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that
demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships
among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument
presented.
Speaking and Listening Standards -7th Grade Comprehension and Collaboration
1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts and issues, building on others’
ideas and expressing their own clearly.
2a. Come to discussion prepared, having read or researched material under study;
explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to
probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Reading Standards ELA for Grade 7:
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly
as well as inferences drawn from the text.
1
Math: Measurement, scientific notation, metric conversion
G = Glencoe new edition, H = Holt previous adoption, but still a great book!
Literature connections: Conclusion paragraphs, summary essay, compare & contrast
essay. Basic research and report writing from an outline
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from
alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that
demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships
among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument
presented.
Introduction to tools: Old Standards 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e NOW- Cross cutting
Concepts of Science and Engineering: Asking Question, Defining Problems,
Developing and Using Models, Planning and carrying out an investigation, Analyzing
and Interpreting Data, Engaging in Argument from Evidence, Obtaining, Evaluating and
Communicating Information.
Spread the tools unit out over several weeks while teaching content and procedures.
Introduce Cells, Classification and Insects while using the tools for activities.
Distance – rulers- include metric unit conversion (measurement worksheet) (page 7 G)
Include area calculations using a ruler with data table in journal (pg. 22-23 H)
Volume – Graduated cylinders, beakers, test tubes, eyedroppers (pages 8-9 G)
Graduated cylinder lab worksheet (pg. 25 H)
Weight/Mass – triple balance beam scales (page 12 G) (pg. 26 H)
Weight/Aims worksheet- weight watchers
Thermometers – Celsius & Fahrenheit (page 8 G) (pg. 26 H)
Lab safety – heating, glassware, goggles, etc, (pages 555-556 G)
Microscope use – Viewing objects, wet mounts, and vocabulary (pages 10-11, 579 G)
Cell labs, insect viewing, vocabulary, plastic viewers (pg.19-20 H)
Scientific Method: Standards 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
Observations, hypothesis, inferring, collecting & analyzing & displaying data, diagrams,
scale models, drawing conclusions. (pages 14-33 G) (pg. 10-18 H)
Hypothesis reading- page 15 G, pg. 12 H
LABS/activities - drops of water on a penny, observe vs. infer worksheet, microscope lab
& jewelers loops drawings
Classification of Living Organisms: Standards 1a, 3d, 7a, 7c
Introduce to 5 Kingdoms & animal kingdom phylum (G 580- 583) (H 234-237)
Scientific nomenclature: (H 262-265)
Use Arthropods, shoes, seeds or buttons, pest insects and imaginary creatures
3 branches of science (G 4)
What do all living things have in common? (G 48-55)
(Also introduces a cell and shows relative sizes of cells, viruses, etc.)
2
Insects: Standards 1f, 3a, 3d, 3e, 5a, 5b
Classify insects down to orders; identify classes of arthropods-insects, arachnids,
crustaceans, millipedes and centipedes. Standards -1b, 1f, 5a, 5d, 7a
Cricket dissection, view insects with microscope, jewelers loops, large hand lens
Video- Insects, Invertebrates of Africa, butterflies and moths, Bill Nye’s “Insects”
Cell: Standards 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 7d Chapters # 1, # 2
Introduction, smallest unit of life, plant & animal cells organelles (G 56-63)
Two types of cells (viruses and bacteria) (G 64-65)
Cell energy & photosynthesis (G 68-72)
Cell division –mitosis (G 88-95)
Basic life forms& levels of organization (G 98-107)
Comparative anatomy (G 252-255)
View with microscope- prepared slides, onion skin cells; check cells, plastic viewer slides
of cells, model of a cell, grow yeast
Videos: Bacteria, Inside a cell, Mitosis, (Meiosis- maybe save for genetics unit)
Bill Nye cell,
2nd Quarter: Plants, Senses, Eyes, Light, Human body systems, Begin Science fair
2nd Quarter Projects – Model eye, Human disease report & presentation
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from
alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that
demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships
among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument
presented.
Chapters 11 & 12 Glencoe
5 Senses: Sound, smell, touch, taste and vision. (G450-459, 480-491)
Tuning forks, smelly bottles to learn wafting, 4 tastes, fingerprints, eye dissection
(Cover system here as well as eye and ear)
Light and Sound: Light spectrum, refraction, reflection (G 428-449, 472, 479)
Refractive lenses, concave & convex lenses, glasses, mirrors
Videos: Eyewitness Sight, Bill Nye: eyeballs, light optics, light & color, skin, smell,
sound, brain.
NOTE: Plants can go right after cells or after the sense organs or after the entire
human body unit… Sometimes it’s good to mix up things or share equipment, etc.
Plant, Animal and cellular Reproduction and Genetics, Change over time
Standards 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e, 5f
Plant focus:
Sexual reproduction and meiosis, review mitosis, plant life cycles including spores,
cuttings, & other seedless plants, flowering plants. (G 134-142)
Revisit Photosynthesis from cell unit… Connect to 8th grade energy- trades unit…
3
More info on plants - Holt Book: Chapter #11 pp. 250-271 and Chapter #12 pgs. 278-293
Plant classification, types of trees, tree rings, (G 295)
Dissections: Fruit, flower
Videos: Eyewitness: Tree, Plants
Bill Nye- Plants, Flowers
Asexual reproduction and cloning (G 151-157)
Review single celled organisms, discuss primitive life forms –
Genetics- Mendel and his peas, Punnett squares (G 172-188)
Worksheet on human traits, Punnett square practice
Phylums: Plants, Animals, Virus, Bacteria, Fungi, Protists should be discussed here and
related to BIG ideas of all living systems as well as how they differentiate.
Human body unit also includes health standards 1-8- regarding healthy choices,
disease prevention, risky behaviors, family health habits, school and community healthy
choices, variances in human growth and development.
Body systems: Standards 5a, 5b, 5c, 6h, 6i, 6j, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
Glencoe Chapters 9, 10, 13
Holt chapters are more complete and superior in content.
Skeletal system: Standards 5c, 6h, 6i
Identify about 16 bones, four types of joints & how joints move, compare skeletons of
other vertebrates (G 360-363)
Skeleton, animal bones,
Joints as levers, mechanical advantage (G 368-375)
Muscle system: identify 6-8 major muscles, 3 types of muscles, muscle pairs
(G 364-367)
Videos: Eyewitness Skeleton, Bill Nye Bones & muscles
Dissections: owl pellet for comparative anatomy, chicken wing
Human Diseases: Standards 5a, 5b, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
Discuss germs, viruses, present human disease projects
Demo on spreading diseases through casual contact
Video: Viruses, Bill Nye Germs
Quarter 3: The human body systems just seem to continue through the winter.
3rd Quarter Projects: Science Fair, Preparing for the 7th grade writing CST.
Work on Science Fair projects for a week and present them in class – Finalists should be
ready for school science fair before Valentine’s Day in February… County science fair
1st week of March this year.
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from
alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that
demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships
among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument
presented.
4
Respiratory/Pulmonary System: Standards 5a, 5b, 6j
Identify organs (G 392-396)
Discuss smoking, asthma, straw demo of a long time smoker, build a lung.
Circulatory system: identify organs in the system (G 397-403)
Blood typing lab, heart rate, listen to heart & pulse, blood pressure
Videos: Eyewitness- human machine, Ultimate Guide: The human body, Bill Nye
respiration, Bill Nye heart
Dissection: Sheep heart
Digestive system: Standards 5a, 5b identify organs, food diary, nutrition label reading,
saliva lab using saltines, titration of acids to simulate stomach acid, fats in snack foods,
starch identification lab, sugar in foods demo lab, length of intestines, construct a gut
activity.
Also use the California Dairy Counsel booklets on nutrition and DVD clips!!!
Prentice Hall book: Digestive system, Dairy council workbook
Videos: Bill Nye nutrition, Bill Nye digestion, Dairy council DVD
Other body systems: Standards 5a, 5b endocrine, urinary, excretory
(G 34-41 Diabetes)
Holt Book: Ch #20 pgs. 496-497 and Chapter #21 pages 510-516, 522-525
Human Reproductive system: Standards 5d, 5e
Reproduction body parts & functions (G 504-521)
Videos: The Miracle of Life
4th Quarter:
4th Quarter Projects: Endangered Animal Report, power point and presentation, making
fossils, and environmental awareness poster
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from
alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that
demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships
among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument
presented.
Animals: Classification and understanding how animals developed and changed over
time, environmental factors,
Geologic time and mass extinctions: (G 316-339) Chapter 8
Tie this into the endangered animal report and global warming
Biological History/Change over time Standards 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e, Chapters 5 & 6
Evolution: Darwin (G 210-217)
Adaptation & Extinctions (G 219-227)
Fossils & Biological evidence- comparative anatomy (G 244- 256)
Review plate tectonics from 6th grade (G 257-260
5
Make an insect or plant fossil, read about early insects (Bill Nye Fossils 6th grade)
Finish using the Change over time unit materials & displays from GEMS
Perhaps a timeline should remain up from this unit
Weekly outline with details, ideas, labs, activities writing ideas and of course…
Formative assessments are in italicized/ bolded in column # 2; revisit them as needed.
Page Keeley formative assessments are available to everyone in ARUSD.
Contact Linda Templeton at Sheppard Middle School for activities, worksheets, labs,
projects, samples and all assessment probes. Enjoy!!!
AVID Science Strand Part 1 is added this year 2014-2015
Week
Standards
Topic &
Assessments
Activity/ Labs
Math & literacy
Book pages
or
worksheet
August 26 August 29
Rules & tools
scientific
method
-Hypothesis
Classroom rules,
course outline,
tools
MS dictionary
Safety contract,
begin Journal,
7 characteristics of
all Living
organisms
Begin MS
dictionary
Process skills, 3
level intellect.
Metric system
Observe & Infer
Contract &
tools
Hypothesis
H 12, G 15
H 10-18
G 14-27
Is it Alive
Metric
measurement
Drops of Water on a Penny
and Accuracy and
Precision
See AVID WICOR
Strategies Pages 160-168 in
The Write Path I Science
Teacher’s Guide
Include Common Core
Claim, Evidence Reasoning
in INB(interactive notebook)
Tim and Moby’s
“Scientific Method”
Brain Pop to be
implemented into INB
Metric conversion
and measurement
of length and mass
How to use the
tools
H 22-23
G7
Bill Nye- Measurement
7a, 7c, 7e
September 25th
5a, 3d, 7a, 7c,
7e
September 8 September 12
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e
Scientific
method- data,
graphs,
analysis,
conclusion
-Doing Science
Measurement
Tools test by
the end of the
week
Paige Keely’s
-Is it Living?
September 15September 19
Measurement
& classification
5a, 3d,
Introduce insect
Weight watchers –
use tools!
Metric
measurement of
volume
H 26
G12
Metric
conversion
Measuring
insects
H 24
Volume
Lab activities
Videos h
AVID Strategies WICOR
and RIGOR
Signature, finish tools page
AVID Setting Up the
Interactive Notebook
Metric rulers, scales
Weight Watchers
Tools test
Graduated cylinders lab(aka- Harry Potter lab)
6
7a, 7c, 7e
September 22September 26
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e
September 29October 3rd
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e
collection.
What is an
insect
-Functions of
Living Things
Animal
Classification
Kingdoms
Animals,
Insects
-Is it an animal
Give insect
collection
assignment
Scientific
names
Microscope
introduction
Okay to
introduce insect
collection
View objects,
insects,
prepared slides.
Introduce
classification
Insect
introduction
Arthropods
Draw an insect
using jeweler’s
loops/ hand lens.
Must measure a
frame and label
body parts
Readings on the 6
Kingdoms
Notes in journalsmake a flipchart
Introduce
insects…
Use scientific
name worksheet
Compare Brock
Microscopes to
Compound
microscopes.
Labeled
microscope page
Use white paper
for drawings part
1 only
Bill Nye “Invertebrates”
Introduce Cornell Notes
AVID Pages 10 -20 and
Science Teacher’s Guide
H 234-239
G 262-267,
580-583
H 228-229
Read though
requirements
Set due date,
discuss
display box
Microscope
H 19-20
G 10-11
Introduction
to Jigsaw
Sequencing
Groups
AVID
activity
Pg. 207
H 339-340
Use Venn
Diagram
AVID
Science
Rubric pgs.
259-261
October 6–
October 10th
Arthropod
Classes
-Life cycle
4 Classes of
Arthropods
Notes in journals
Holt 341-344
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e
Insect viewing
Box
Classification of
insects- orders
Draw a 3-D
diagram, make box
in class with
cardboard and an
overhead sheet for
a viewing window
TRADES
connection
Insect written
report due by
end of quarter
Overheads of
8 insect
orders
Cricket
vocabulary,
body parts
Classification of shoes,
seeds, buttons…
Bill Nye “Insects”
Assign Insect collection
Creature pages coloring
activity
Intro. Microscope Lab
Summary conclusions,
Invertebrates of Africa
AVID Vocabulary
Development pg 214-218
Compare & contrast essay
on arachnids and insectsliteracy
Introduction to Venn
Diagram
See AVID page 259-261
Eyewitness “Insects”
AVID
Comparative Analysis
Pages 256-265
Bill Nye- Spiders
Cricket dissection
Glue and label parts
Insect report – literacy Use
computers for research
7
October 13–
October 17
1a, 1b, 1c, 1d,
1e, 1f, 7a, 7c,
7e
While students
collect insectssplit days between
cell content and
insect box
construction.
Cell is the basic
unit of life, cell
theory
Read about.
Prokaryotic cells,
early life concepts.
Eukaryotic
Diagrams to color
Parts to identify
Holt 80-83
Cells
Glencoe
Pages 48-50
Tim and Moby’s “Cell”
Brain Pop
10 review questions with
active inspire responders
(electronic responders)
Holt 85-89
Glencoe
Pages 51-55,
Pages 56-63
Holt 90-91
Glencoe
Pages 64-66
Holt 92-99
Bill Nye- Cell
Diagram to color
Parts to identify
ChloroplastsPlastic viewers
with prepared
slides and written
information
Holt 95
Inside a Cell DVD
AVID pgs. 102-108
Science Photo Project
2 paragraph summary
Conclusion
AVID GIST Summary Pg.
73
Make wet mount
slides of onion
skin cells and
cheek cells.
Haiku or
Cinquain
Poem
AVID
Page72
-Whale and
Shrew*
Parts of the
skeletal system
Bones of the
body
Names of 15-18
major bonesModel Skeleton
Marrow, blood,
relate to diseases
Model human
body parts and
categorize,
Holt 468-469
Glencoe
360-361
Labeled
diagram
START Cells
Life
organization
-Cells
Introduction of
Cells
Types of cells
October 20 –
October 24
1a, 1b, 1c, 1d,
1e, 1f, 7a, 7c,
7e
Animal cells
-Is it made of
cells
Plant cells
Paige Keely’s
-Is it a Plant?
Microscope
viewing of cells
(Microscope
wet mountssave for plant
unit)
October 27 –
October 31
3rd Quarter
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
7c, 7e
AVID
Diamante
Poem AVID
pages 262263 for
animal cell
Plastic viewers of a cell
Observation Verses
Inference AVID pgs. 78-81
Microscope lab using
prepared slides.
Analysis and conclusion
Microscope
and cell quiz
summative
assessment.
Skeletal System
What’s in a
bone
Joints in the
body
AVID Critical Reading in
Science Graphic Organizer
Eyewitness-Skeleton
Holt pg. 470
Glencoe
362-363
Glencoe
Tim and Moby’s “Joints
and Muscles” Brain Pop 10
review questions
8
Levers as joints
Compare body
parts to common
levers. (Physics)
Holt 471
Glencoe
368-375
Owl Pellet
dissection
Identify bones of
rodents, label and
glue
Parts of the
muscular system
Dissection
key
November 3 –
November 7
Muscular
system
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
7c, 7e
-Human body
basics
Muscles in pairs Types of muscles
Bones quiz
Musculoskelet
al test
Glencoe
Chapter 9
Chicken wing
dissection –
November 10 – Circulatory
November 14
system
(Cardiovascular
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
)
7c, 7e
Paige Keely
-Is it a system?
The Heart
November 17 – Heart dissection
November 21
Glencoe
364-367
Holt 472-475
Glencoe
Pgs. 360-367
Identify bones,
muscles,
ligaments, tendons
Heart rate &
exercise lab
Heart model
( may need to
review body
systems)
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning
Holt 488-489
Glencoe
397-400
Body
systems
refer to pages
464-467 Holt
Lungs and heart
with oxygen
exchange
Dissection of a
sheep heart
Glue labeled
diagram in journal
Holt 490-493
Glencoe
Pages 408409
Lab on blood
typing, antigens
Holt 494
Glencoe
Pages 405407
Parts of the system
Glencoe
Glencoe
Pages 397401
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
7c, 7e
Blood typing
Chapter 10 The
PulmonaryCirculatory
System
November 24 – Respiratory
Glencoe
Tim and Moby’s “Levers”
Brain Pop
10 review questions
Owl Pellet dissection
AVID Lab Reports Pgs.
151-159
Bill Nye – Bones and
Muscles
Glencoe’s Tim and Moby
“Muscles” Brain Pop
10 Review Questions
Chicken wing dissection
AVID Lab Reports pgs. 151159
Cardiovascular system
worksheet set
Heart Rate Lab
IMSS
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning.
Bill Nye - Blood
Circulation
Dissection of a sheep heart
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning
Bill Nye - Heart
Lab on blood typing,
antigens
AVID Graphing Data
Page 144-152
Lab Analysis/Conclusions
Claim, Evidence and
Reasoning
Glencoe’s Tim and Moby’s
“Circulation” Brain Pop
10 review questions with
active inspire responders.
Respiratory system
9
November 25
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
7c, 7e
December 1 –
December 5
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
7c, 7e
December 8 –
December 12
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
7b,7c, 7e
December 15
December 19
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a,
7c, 7e
Assign
Science fair
project
January 5 –
January 9
system
Paige Keely
-Respiration
Lung model
Digestive
system
Digestive
System
Introduce body
parts and unit on
nutrition
Human torso on
display
Carbohydrates
id. lab, food
labels lab, Saliva
digestion activity
Nutrition
workbook
sections 1-8
Paige Keely
-Is it food?
Sense of smell
Sense of touch,
Integumentary
system
Fingerprints
Sense of
hearing
Making Sound
Smelly lab
Largest organ in
the body, skin care
and concerns
392-396
Holt 498-501
worksheet set
Bill Nye- Respiration
Glencoe’s Tim and Moby’s
“Respiration” and
10 review questions with
active responders
Bill Nye – Nutrition
Bill Nye- Digestion
Food labels, carbohydrates
lab
CA Dairy
counsel
workbook
Video clips from DVD
matching workbooks
Fats lab,
Holt pg. 521,
476-479
Smells lab
Taste lab
Bill Nye- Smell
AVID Pages 21-24 NoteMaking and Asking Costa’s
Level of Thinking
Questions
Use worksheet and
identify 3 types of
fingerprintsWorksheet on
sense of hearing
Bill Nye- Skin
Holt pg. 520
Decibels
Glencoe 476
5a, 5b, 5c, 5g,
7a, 7b, 7c, 7e
Fingerprint lab
Bill Nye- Sound
Tim and Moby Sound
10 review questions
AVID Using Essential
Questions and Note-Taking
Page 15
Reminder of
science fair!!!
The parts of the
ear
Worksheet to label
Model of an ear
Glencoe pgs.
480-488
Give packet
Sound waves
& vocal cords
Glencoe pgs.
472-479
January 12January 16
Sense of sight
Visible light
spectrum
January 19 –
January 23
The Eye
Paige Keely
-Apple in the
Inquiry Based Lab
Claims, Evidence,
Reasoning section
Visible light
spectrum
Mixing Colors
Inquiry Based Lab
Sense of sight wk
sheet
View pupil in
Glencoe
428-437
Holt 52, 5458
Glencoe pgs.
450-453, 456
Labeled diagram
Inquiry Based Tuning
forks Inquiry Lab
AVID Learning Logs Pg.
67-72
Light Spectrum worksheet.
Tim and Moby Light and
Color
10 Question Review
Eye Witness “Sight”
10
5g, 7a, 7b, 7c,
7e, 6a- 6g
Quarter 3
dark
January 26–
January 30
Refraction
Paige Keely
-Can it reflect
light?
Prisms Lab
Speed of light
Happy Glasses
Lab
Glasses to observe
nearsighted and
farsighted
corrections
6a-6g, 5g, 7a,
7b, 7c, 7d,7e
Light reflection
February 2–
February 6
Concave/conve
x
Paige Keely
16a- 6g, 5g, 7a, -Birthday
7b, 7c 7d,7e
candles
Science fair
due next week!
February 9 –
February 13
6a- 6g, 5g, 7a,
7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
February 23 –
February 27
5a, 5b, 7a, 7b,
7c, 7d, 7e
February 16February 20
Presidents
Week
February 23
February 27
5a, 5b, 5g, 7a,
7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
–
March 2
March 6
Science fair
presentations
for those going
to the finals
Finish late
science fair
presentations
Paige Keely
-Is it a model?
Eye Model due
mirror
Model of an eye
Reflection
worksheet
Glencoe pgs.
440-441
Holt 59-64
Glencoe
438-439
Holt 65-66
Prisms lab
Happy glasses lab
Inquiry Based Lab
Bill Nye “Light Optics”
Glencoe
443-449
Holt 67-69
Glencoe 451
Worksheets,
diagram, label and
identify parts of
the eye
Wednesday
through Friday
oral presentations
Brain- learning
patterns
Worksheets on
brain
Show models of
brain
Sign up for human
disease topics!!!
Bill Nye “Light and Color”
Inquiry Based Lab
Bill Nye “Eyeball”
Lenses open inquiry
Eye dissection
Reflections on the
dissection
Model of an EYE
Due March 6
Holt 511-515
Bill Nye- Brain
Reading color words in
varying colors
Students choose a Glencoedisease and make a Diabetes
power point
reading
Computer lab 1week
AVID
Summarizing Information
Texts pg. 90-94
Writing sample
this week!!
Presentations of human
disease projects
Human Disease
Project&
presentations
Bill Nye –Germs
5a, 5b, 5g, 7a,
7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
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March 9 –
March 13
Plants
What makes plants
different from
animals
3a, 3d, 2a, 2d,
5a, 5b, 5f, 4e,
7a, 7c, 7d, 7e
Seedless plants
Paige Keely
-Is it food for
plants?
-Plants in the
dark
Plants with
seeds
Ferns, horsetailsBring in samples
to view
3a, 3d, 2a, 2d,
5a, 5b, 5f, 4e,
7a, 7c, 7d, 7e
March 16 –
March 20
3a, 3d, 2a, 2d,
5a, 5b, 5f, 4e,
7a, 7c, 7d, 7e
Dissect a seed,
identify parts
IMSS seeds
Paige Keely
-Giant Sequoia
*
-Needs of seeds
Roots and stems View the cross
sections of trees,
sprout a seed
Photosynthesis
Sexual cell
Meiosis
division
-Seedlings in a
jar
Revisit Plants
in the dark
Medel’s Peas
Punnett squares
March 23
March 27
Flowers
-Rotting Apple
2b, 2e, 5e
Genetics
4th Quarter
March 30
April 3
Sexual
Reproduction
Dissection of a
flower
Pollination to
reproduce
Can be put in with
family life???
Holt 250-253
Glencoe
Plant
Reproduction
Pages 134137
Holt 254-257
Eyewitness – Plants
Sprouting and germination
of a seed
Holt 258-263
Eyewitness- Tree
Seeds R’ Us Inquiry Lab
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning IMSS program
Seed dissection
Growth of a seed
AVID Vocabulary
Development Page 214
Holt 264-267
Holt 268-269
Holt 140-141
Glencoe
Pages 137140
Genes and Chromosomes
Holt 130-134
Holt 135-137
Glencoe
Pages 182188
Holt 270-271
Optional- Clone age, Power
of Genes, Genetics
Leaf Disk
Lab/Photosynthesis/Respira
tions Inquiry Lab and Story
Board
Flower dissection
AVID
Quick Write
Learning Logs Pgs 62-67
Bill Nye – Genes
Dragon Lab
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning.
Planned Parenthood
AVID Quick writes Page
62-66
Learning Logs Page 67
Family Life
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2b, 2e, 5e
Begin animal
kingdom OR
evolution…
April 13
April 17
Echinoderms
Sea stars, urchins
Holt 345-347
Squid dissection
Worm dissection
Optional
AVID Observation Versus
Summarizing
1f, 2a, 2b, 2d,
3a- 3e,
4a-4g
April 21-25
Spring Break
April 20 –
April 24
April 27
May 1
1f, 2a, 2b, 2d,
3a- 3e,
4a-4g
May 4 –
May 8
1f, 2a, 2b, 2d,
3a- 3e,
4a-4g
Inferences pgs. 78-94
Vertebrates vs.
Invertebrates
Fish/ Sharks
Compare body
structures
Use worksheet
Cold-blooded
Amphibians
Amphibian
worksheet
Model of
Salamander. Frog
life cycle
Reptiles
Reptile worksheet
Habitat Change Lizard skeleton
Compare egg
evolution
Identifying
Reptiles
Birds
Bird
Classification
May 11–
May 15
Mammals
-Baby mice
1f, 2a, 2b, 2d,
3a- 3e,
4a-4g
May 18 –
May 22
Bill Nye “Ocean Life”
Mammal
Classification
Endangered
animal power
Holt 356-358
Worksheet on vertebrates
Holt 359-363
Holt 364-368
Eyewitness- Fish and
Sharks
Eyewitness- Amphibians
Holt 369-373
Eyewitness- Reptiles
Reptile key
Reptile Key
Bird worksheet
Pigeon skeleton,
feather
comparisons
Habitats, beaks,
evolutionary
adaptations
Worksheets on
mammals,
prehistoric
mammals
Holt 382-388
Holt 392-395
AVID Science Photo
Project Pg. 102-108
Eyewitness- Mammals
Types of mammal
adaptations
Use computersPower point with
Holt 396-405
Bill Nye- Marine Mammals
Eyewitness- Birds
Bills and beaks lab
Holt 389-391
AVID Data Collection Page
Graphing Data
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1f, 2a, 2b, 2d,
3a- 3e,
4a-4g, 7a-7e
May 26May 29
4a, 4b, 4c, 4d,
4e, 4f, 4g
June 1June 5
4a, 4b, 4c, 4d,
4e, 4f, 4g
June 8
June 12
points
specific slides.
Geologic time
periods
Classroom
presentations of
endangered
animals.
Evolution bins
Geologic time
scale, compare
using classroom
wall space or a
timeline.
Holt 202-205 Bill Nye- Evolution
Glencoe 284- Frogger Lab (IMSS) and
291
Story Board Inquiry Based
Lab
Stations set up
with questions and
tank viewing to
learn about plant
and animal
evolution
Darwin, evidence
of evolution. The
whale story pages
178-181
Holt 206-213
Glencoe pg.
240-260
Geological Time Periods
Inquiry Evolution tanks stations
Holt 176-183
AVID Summary of the Year
-Biological
evolution
Change over
time.
-Is it fitter?
Lab Reports
Pages 139-151
219-227
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