Grade Level
Monday
7
Teacher/Room: Watters/103
Week of: March 10, 2014,
3-10-14
CC Standards:
S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their
environments.
c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both
individuals and entire species.
d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually
beneficial.
S7CS5. Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring
scientific and technological matters.
a. Observe and explain how parts can be related to other parts in a system such as
predator/prey relationships in a community/ecosystem.
b. Understand that different models (such as physical replicas, pictures, and analogies)
can be used to represent the same thing.
STEM
Scientific observation
Science
Art to observe
EQ
What are examples of symbiosis?
What are examples of
symbiosis?
Activating:
Geo-Life web site http://www.geolife.org/
Instructional Strategies/
Resources Used:
Class Activity:
1. Warm-up- What do you
know about water filters?
http://inhabitat.com/6-waterpurifying-devices-for-cleandrinking-water-in-thedeveloping-world/
2. Turn in Labs
3. Engineering Design- Using the
available materials, create a
filter that will clean the dirty
water.
http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=208tyNcBB2E
4. Test Study Guide- Test Wed.
Current Event due Friday- Must
be on water pathogens
problems or solutions
Microbes Poster
discussion
1. Warm-upWhat do you know about water
filters? Write 3-4 sentences
http://inhabitat.com/6-waterpurifying-devices-for-cleandrinking-water-in-the-developingworld/
2. Unit Study Guide- Review for
Test Wednesday
3. Current Event due Friday
Assessment
Filter design
Homework:
Differentiation:
Current Event if not turned in
Tuesday
Formative- illustration and
correlating writing
Study Guide
3-11-14
CC Standards:
S7CS5. Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring
scientific and technological matters.
a. Observe and explain how parts can be related to other parts in a system such as
predator/prey relationships in a community/ecosystem.
b. Understand that different models (such as physical replicas, pictures, and analogies)
can be used to represent the same thing.
S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their
environments.
c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both
individuals and entire species.
d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually
beneficial.
STEM
Science
Instructional Strategies/
Visual/ art
Visual/ media/ art
Resources Used:
EQ
Class Activity:
What are the 3 types of symbiotic What are the 3 types of symbiotic
relationships?
relationships?
1. Warm-up- 6 Water filter
Solutions
http://inhabitat.com/6-waterpurifying-devices-for-cleandrinking-water-in-thedeveloping-world/
1. Turn in LAB ACTIVITIES
2. Review the Vocabulary
Sheet
3. Symbiotic relationships
#1- HAY Population Lab Reportcheck the hay infusion and see
what organisms we can finddraw them on the back of your
Hay lab sheet
2. Turn in Lab Reports
3. Water filter reportdraw an illustration of
your filter layers and
4. draw the Water Cycle 717make sure you label and write
a description of each stage
Homework: Review for test/
finish drawing
then write what you
did and the results of
your filter based on
the water sample
Assessment:
Homework:
Differentiation:
Wednesday
Lab Report
Study for Test
Microscopic lab/
Study for Test
Study Guide sheets
3-12-14
S7CS3. Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for
analyzing data and following scientific explanations.
a. Analyze scientific data by using, interpreting, and comparing numbers in several
equivalent forms, such as integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.
b. Use the mean, median, and mode to analyze a set of scientific data.
c. Apply the metric system to a scientific investigation that includes metric to metric
conversion. (i.e. centimeters to meters)
d. Draw conclusions based on analyzed data.
e. Decide what degree of precision is adequate, and round off appropriately.
f. Address the relationship between accuracy and precision and the importance of each.
S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their
environments.
c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both
individuals and entire species.
d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually
beneficial.
STEM
Science
Instructional Strategies/
Resources Used:
EQ
Class Activity:
1. Warm-up- describe how we
can help provide
underdeveloped nations with
clean water economically.
2. Turn in homework
TEST
Assessment:
Homework:
Summative Test results
Any unfinished work
Differentiation:
STEM LAB- create a population and
wet mounts- observe and analyze
1. Warm up- Write about one of
the water filter solutions
http://inhabitat.com/6-waterpurifying-devices-for-cleandrinking-water-in-the-developingworld/
2. Review homework
TEST
Summative Test results
Current event FridayAny
unfinished work
Group 1 and 2 levels of higher
order #1- analyze and graph
Group #2- Insert into table and
answer conceptual questions
Thursday
3-13-14
Instructional
Strategy
EQ
STEM
Engineering
SCIENCE
Visual
How does nitrogen cycle?
How does the carrying capacity
change with the population?
Warm-up- Describe the process of
photosynthesis.
4. Carbon and Nitrogen
cycles- EduSmart
5. Science book- page718-721
6. Questions page 721 #1-3
Homework: Finish questions/
CE
Unfinished questions
Question completion
Group/ partners
Class Activity
Warm-up- Describe the process of
photosynthesis.
1. Carbon and Nitrogen cyclesEduSmart
2. Science book- page718-721
3. Questions page 721 #1-3
Homework: Finish questions/ CE
Homework
Assessment
Differentiation
Any unfinished work
Question Accuracy
Use of Models
Friday
3-14-14
CC Standards:
S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their
environments.
a. Demonstrate in a food web that matter is transferred from one organism to another
and can recycle between organisms and their environments.
b. Explain in a food web that sunlight is the source of energy and that this energy moves
from organism to organism.
c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both
individuals and entire species.
d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually
beneficial. .
e. Describe the characteristics of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes (i.e. tropical rain
forest, savannah, temperate, desert, taiga, tundra, and mountain) and aquatic
communities (i.e. freshwater, estuaries, and marine).
Instructional Strategies/
Resources Used:
EQ
Class Activity:
STEM
Science
TEchnology
Technology
Computer Lab- Study Island
Biomes and Ecosystems 80%
accuracy
Computer Lab- Study Island
Biomes and Ecosystems 80%
accuracy
Assessment:
Homework:
Differentiation:
Study Island reports
Study Island reports
Number of questions
Number of questions
7th Grade Standards:
S7L1. Students will investigate the diversity of living organisms and how they
can be compared scientifically.
a. Demonstrate the process for the development of a dichotomous key.
b. Classify organisms based on physical characteristics using a dichotomous key of the
six kingdom system (archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals).
S7L2. Students will describe the structure and function of cells, tissues, organs, and organ
systems.
a. Explain that cells take in nutrients in order to grow and divide and to make needed
materials.
b. Relate cell structures (cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts,
mitochondria) to basic cell functions.
c. Explain that cells are organized into tissues, tissues into organs, organs into systems,
and systems into organisms.
d. Explain that tissues, organs, and organ systems serve the needs cells have for oxygen,
food, and waste removal.
e. Explain the purpose of the major organ systems in the human body (i.e., digestion,
respiration, reproduction, circulation, excretion, movement, control, and
coordination, and for protection from disease).
S7L3. Students will recognize how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.
a. Explain the role of genes and chromosomes in the process of inheriting a specific
trait.
b. Compare and contrast that organisms reproduce asexually and sexually (bacteria,
protists, fungi, plants & animals).
c. Recognize that selective breeding can produce plants or animals with desired traits.
S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their
environments.
a. Demonstrate in a food web that matter is transferred from one organism to another
and can recycle between organisms and their environments.
b. Explain in a food web that sunlight is the source of energy and that this energy moves
from organism to organism.
c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both
individuals and entire species.
d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually
beneficial.
e. Describe the characteristics of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes (i.e. tropical rain
forest, savannah, temperate, desert, taiga, tundra, and mountain) and aquatic
communities (i.e. freshwater, estuaries, and marine).
S7L5. Students will examine the evolution of living organisms through inherited
characteristics that promote survival of organisms and the survival of successive
generations of their offspring.
a. Explain that physical characteristics of organisms have changed over successive
generations (e.g. Darwin’s finches and peppered moths of Manchester).
b. Describe ways in which species on earth have evolved due to natural selection.
c. Trace evidence that the fossil record found in sedimentary rock provides evidence for the long
history of changing life forms.
S7CS1. Students will explore of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and
skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand
how the world works.
a. Understand the importance of—and keep—honest, clear, and accurate records in
science.
b. Understand that hypotheses can be valuable, even if they turn out not to be
completely accurate.
S7CS2. Students will use standard safety practices for all classroom laboratory and field
investigations.
S7CS3. Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for
analyzing data and following scientific explanations.
a. Analyze scientific data by using, interpreting, and comparing numbers in several
equivalent forms, such as integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.
b. Use the mean, median, and mode to analyze a set of scientific data.
c. Apply the metric system to a scientific investigation that includes metric to metric
conversion. (i.e. centimeters to meters)
d. Draw conclusions based on analyzed data.
e. Decide what degree of precision is adequate, and round off appropriately.
f. Address the relationship between accuracy and precision and the importance of each.
S7CS4. Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and
manipulating equipment and materials in scientific activities.
a. Use appropriate technology to store and retrieve scientific information in topical,
alphabetical, numerical, and keyword files, and create simple files.
b. Use appropriate tools for measuring objects and/or substances
c. Learn and use on a regular basis standard safety practices for scientific investigations.
S7CS5. Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring
scientific and technological matters.
a. Observe and explain how parts can be related to other parts in a system such as
predator/prey relationships in a community/ecosystem.
b. Understand that different models (such as physical replicas, pictures, and analogies)
can be used to represent the same thing.
S7CS6. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
a. Write clear, step-by-step instructions for conducting particular scientific
investigations, operating a piece of equipment, or following a procedure.
b. Write for scientific purposes incorporating data from circle, bar and line graphs, twoway data
tables, diagrams, and symbols.
c. Organize scientific information using appropriate simple tables, charts, and graphs,
and identify relationships they reveal.
S7CS7. Students will question scientific claims and arguments effectively.
a. Question claims based on vague attributions (such as “Leading doctors say...”) or on
statements made by people outside the area of their particular expertise.
b. Identify the flaws of reasoning that are based on poorly designed research (i.e., facts
intermingled with opinion, conclusions based on insufficient evidence).
c. Question the value of arguments based on small samples of data, biased samples, or
samples for which there was no control.
d. Recognize that there may be more than one way to interpret a given set of
findings.
S7CS8. Students will investigate the characteristics of scientific knowledge and how that
knowledge is achieved.
Students will apply the following to scientific concepts:
a. When similar investigations give different results, the scientific challenge is to judge
whether the differences are trivial or significant, which often requires further study.
Even with similar results, scientists may wait until an investigation has been repeated
many times before accepting the results as meaningful.
b. When new experimental results are inconsistent with an existing, well-established
theory, scientists may pursue further experimentation to determine whether the
results are flawed or the theory requires modification.
c. As prevailing theories are challenged by new information, scientific knowledge may
change.
S7CS9. Students will investigate the features of the process of scientific inquiry.
Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices:
a. Investigations are conducted for different reasons, which include exploring new
phenomena, confirming previous results, testing how well a theory predicts, and
comparing competing theories.
b. Scientific investigations usually involve collecting evidence, reasoning, devising
hypotheses, and formulating explanations to make sense of collected evidence.
c. Scientific experiments investigate the effect of one variable on another. All other
variables are kept constant.
d. Scientists often collaborate to design research. To prevent this bias, scientists conduct
independent studies of the same questions.
e. Accurate record keeping, data sharing, and replication of results are essential for
maintaining an investigator’s credibility with other scientists and society.
f. Scientists use technology and mathematics to enhance the process of scientific
inquiry.
g. The ethics of science require that special care must be taken and used for human
subjects and animals in scientific research. Scientists must adhere to the appropriate
rules and guidelines when conducting research.