Bay County Public Schools
District Pacing Guide: Science
7th Grade
BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT PRE-TEST
1st 9 Weeks (Nature of Science/Earth)
Topics
Essential Labs
Vocabulary
Big Ideas: 1, 2, 3, 6
Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4
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Science investigations
Repetition/replication
Variables
Methods of science
Empirical evidence
Debate/argumentative
How science changes
Theories/laws
Models
Layers of the Earth
Rock cycle
Earth’s age
Geologic time
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Science Project
for formative and summative assessments.
NGSSS Vocabulary:
● Aesthetic
● Dependent
Resources can be found on the district
variable
science link.
● Experiment
http://www.bay.k12.fl.us/departments/science
● Hypothesis
● Independent
variable
● Inference
● Investigation
● Law
● Life science
● Model
● Objectivity
● Observation
● Physical science
● Replication
● Scientific method
● Subjectivity
● Theory
● Variable
● Lithosphere
● Radioactive
dating
● Sedimentary
● Superposition
Additional Text
Vocabulary from
Chapters 1 and 2.
2nd 9 Weeks (Earth)
Topics
Essential Labs
Vocabulary
Big Ideas: 1, 2,
6
Chapters: 5, 6,
7, 8
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Plate
tectonics
Volcanoes
and
earthquakes
Human
impact on
Earth
Heat flow in
Earth
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Convection- Solar Hot air balloons.
http://www.solar-balloons.com/howto.html
Penny Lab (radiometric
dating)http://www.mrhollister.com/geosci
/pdf/chap_12/LAB_MM_RadioactiveDecay.pdf
NGSSS Vocabulary:
● Deforestation
● Desertification
● Earthquake
● Erosion
Additional Text
Vocabulary from Chapters
1 and 2.
BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT MID-TEST
3rd 9 Weeks (Physical/Life)
Topics
Essential Labs
Vocabulary
Big Ideas:
10, 11, 15
Chapters:
9, 10, 11
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EM Spectrum,
Radiation,
Wavelength
Light reflection,
refraction,
absorption
Speed of waves
Heat transfer
Transformation of
energy
Conservation of
energy
Theory of evolution
Fossil evidence
Natural selection
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Electromagnetic
Spectrum/chromatography
http://sciencespot.net/Media/FrnsSci
ence
/chromacard.pdf
Energy transfer insulators/ ice cube
lab http://sciencespot.net/Media
/clubbgfreeze.pdf
NGSSS Vocabulary:
● Current
● Electricity
● Energy
● Evolution
● Force
● Fossil
● Heat
● Infrared
● Light
● Liquid
● Matter
● Natural
Selection
● Organism
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Adaptations
Radiation
Solid
Sound Wave
Space
Sun
Supernatural
Ultraviolet
Vacuum
Wavelength
Additional Text
Vocabulary from
Chapters 1 and 2.
4th 9 Weeks (Life)
Topics
Essential Labs
Vocabulary
Big Ideas: 16, 17
Chapters: 12, 13, 14
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DNA, chromosomes
Heredity
Genotype, phenotype
Punnett squares,
pedigrees
Sexual and asexual
reproduction (mitosis
and meiosis)
Impact of
biotechnology
Energy transfer in
food web
Relationships among
organisms
Limiting factors in
ecosystems
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Natural Selection Lab
Inheritance Lab/ genetics with a
smile
http://sciencespot.net/Media/gen
_smilewkst1.pdf
BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT POST-TEST
NGSSS Vocabulary:
● Asexual
reproduction
● Biotechnology
● Cell
● Chromosome
● Clone
● Consumer
● Decomposer
● Diversity
● DNA
● Environment
● Food chain
● Genetic
● Genotype
● Habitat
● Heredity
● Meiosis
● Mitosis
● Offspring
● Phenotype
● Producer
● Reproduction
● Sexual reproduction
Additional Text Vocabulary
from Chapters 1 and 2.