Seventh Grade Science Pacing Guide
First 9 weeks
The student will plan and conduct investigations in which: a) data are organized into tables showing repeated trials and means; b) variables are defined; c) metric units (SI — International System of Units) are used; d) models are constructed to illustrate and explain phenomena; e) sources of experimental error are identified; f) dependent variables, independent variables, and constants are identified; g) variables are controlled to test hypotheses, and trials are repeated; h) continuous line graphs are constructed, interpreted, and used to make predictions; i) interpretations from a set of data are evaluated and defended; and j) an understanding of the nature of science is developed and reinforced.
Unit SOL by number and letter
Enhanced Scope and
Sequence connection
Scientific Investigation
Metric Measurements
LS. 1 a-j
Biological Interactions
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Energy Flow
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Biotic/Abiotic Factors
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Cycles of Abiotic Elements
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Relationships Between
Organisms
LS.6 a-d, LS.7 a-b, LS.8 a-e,
LS.10 b
The Cycles of Nature
Freshwater Food Chains
Go with the Flow
A Salt Marsh Ecosystem
Essential
Skills Vocabulary design, analyze and critique, create plausible hypotheses, describe, recognize, interpret, predict, infer, measure, evaluate observe and identify, classify, differentiate, determine, identify, comprehend, interpret, analyze and evaluate, predict, generate predictions, infer, apply, design, data, trials, variables, dependant variable, independent variable, constant, hypothesis, prediction, inference food web, energy pyramid, competition, cooperation, social hierarchy, territorial imperative, producer, consumer, decomposer, predator, prey, symbiosis,

Biomes and Ecosystems
Adaptations for Specific Ecosystems
LS.9 a-c
Environmental Issues LS.10 c, LS.11 a-e
Predator-Prey Simulation
Organisms in Symbiosis
Biomes of the World
Heat Loss from a Fur-
Insulated Animal
A Designed Organism
Changes in Ecosystems
Ecosystem Dynamics analyze and critique niche, habitat differentiate, comprehend, compare and contrast, recognize and give examples, observe and describe, analyze, predict, design, analyze and critique identify, describe, explain, debate, compare, observe, design, analyze and critique biotic, abiotic, ecosystem, community, population, organism, biome, habitat eutrophication, climate change, catastrophic disturbances, habitat, competition, water quality, air quality, pollution,
Seventh Grade Science Pacing Guide
Second 9 weeks
The student will plan and conduct investigations in which: a) data are organized into tables showing repeated trials and means; b) variables are defined; c) metric units (SI — International System of Units) are used; d) models are constructed to illustrate and explain phenomena; e) sources of experimental error are identified; f) dependent variables, independent variables, and constants are identified; g) variables are controlled to test hypotheses, and trials are repeated; h) continuous line graphs are constructed, interpreted, and used to make predictions;

i) interpretations from a set of data are evaluated and defended; and j) an understanding of the nature of science is developed and reinforced.
Unit
Characteristics and Needs of Living
Things
Cell Theory and Structure of Cells
Cellular Organization
SOL by number and letter
LS.3 b
LS.2 a-c
LS.3 a
Enhanced Scope and
Sequence connection
Plant and Animal Cells
Levels of Cellular
Organization
Essential
Skills Vocabulary identify, explain, understand, relate, create plausible hypotheses, design, analyze and critique describe and sequence, identify, distinguish, correlate, compare and contrast, analyze and critique differentiate, compare and contrast, model, analyze and critique stimulus, DNA, response, respire cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, vacuole, mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulum, nucleus, chloroplast cells, tissues, organs, systems, respiration, cellular transport

Cell Processes and Cell Division LS.2 d, LS.3 b Cell Division
Osmosis, Diffusion, and
Active Transport
Photosynthesis and Cellular
Respiration
The student will plan and conduct investigations in which: a) data are organized into tables showing repeated trials and means; b) variables are defined; c) metric units (SI — International System of Units) are used; d) models are constructed to illustrate and explain phenomena; e) sources of experimental error are identified; f) dependent variables, independent variables, and constants are identified; g) variables are controlled to test hypotheses, and trials are repeated; h) continuous line graphs are constructed, interpreted, and used to make predictions; i) interpretations from a set of data are evaluated and defended; and j) an understanding of the nature of science is developed and reinforced.
Unit SOL by number and letter
Enhanced Scope and
Sequence connection
LS.12 a-f
Seventh Grade Science Pacing Guide
Third 9 weeks
Heredity
DNA
Genetics
DNA Extraction from
Strawberries
Building a DNA Model differentiate, design, sequence, identify, demonstrate mitosis, meiosis, diffusion, osmosis
Essential
Skills Vocabulary recognize, explain, demonstrate, differentiate, distinguish between, identify, predict, double helix, genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive, gene, chromosome, traits, inherited,

Evolution and Adaptations
Classification
LS.13 a-c
LS.4 a
Passing Traits to Offspring
Owl Family Natural Selection
Evidence of Evolution
Animal Phyla and Plant
Divisions
Classification of Organisms
Seventh Grade Science Pacing Guide
Fourth 9 weeks
The student will plan and conduct investigations in which: a) data are organized into tables showing repeated trials and means; b) variables are defined; c) metric units (SI — International System of Units) are used; d) models are constructed to illustrate and explain phenomena; e) sources of experimental error are identified; f) dependent variables, independent variables, and constants are identified; g) variables are controlled to test hypotheses, and trials are repeated; h) continuous line graphs are constructed, interpreted, and used to make predictions; i) interpretations from a set of data are evaluated and defended; and j) an understanding of the nature of science is developed and reinforced.
Unit SOL by number and letter
Enhanced Scope and
Sequence connection analyze explain, comprehend, describe, analyze and evaluate, interpret, describe and explain compare and contrast, classify, arrange, categorize, recognize mutation, adaptation, natural selection, extinction, fossil record, genetic variation, diversity domain, kingdom, phyla, binomial nomenclature, hierarchy
Essential
Skills Vocabulary

Viruses
Bacteria
Protists
Fungi
Animals
Plants
LS.4 b-d
LS.4 c-d, LS.10 a
LS.4 c-d, LS.5 a-c, LS.10 a Photosynthesis and Cellular
Respiration
A-Mazing Plants compare and contrast, classify, arrange, categorize, recognize kingdom, phyla, binomial nomenclature, hierarchy distinguish, identify, explain, relate, explain, create, design, analyze and critique identify, explain, describe, understand, relate, create, design, analyze and critique hibernation, dormancy, population photosynthesis, phototropism, dormancy, divisions