7th+Grade+Standards

= = =__Inquiry & Technology__= These standards are used year round and imbedded in all of the units.


 * GLE 0707.Inq.1 ** Design and conduct open-ended scientific investigations.


 * SPI 0707.Inq.1 ** Design a simple experimental procedure with an identified control and appropriate variables.


 * GLE 0707.Inq.2 ** Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, organize, analyze, and interpret data.
 * SPI 0707.Inq.2 ** Select tools and procedures needed to conduct a moderately complex experiment.


 * GLE 0707.Inq.3 ** Synthesize information to determine cause and effect relationships between evidence and explanations.
 * SPI 0707.Inq.3 ** Interpret and translate data into a table, graph, or diagram.


 * GLE 0707.Inq.4 ** Recognize possible sources of bias and error, alternative explanations, and questions for further exploration.
 * SPI 0707.Inq.4 ** Draw a conclusion that establishes a cause and effect relationship supported by evidence.


 * GLE 0707.Inq.5 ** Communicate scientific understanding using descriptions, explanations, and models.
 * SPI 0707.Inq.5 ** Identify a faulty interpretation of data that is due to bias or experimental error.


 * GLE 0707.T/E.1** Explore how technology responds to social, political, and economic needs.


 * GLE 0707.T/E.2** Know that the engineering design process involves an ongoing series of events that incorporate design constraints, model building, testing, evaluating, modifying, and retesting.


 * CFU 0707.T/E.3** - Explore how the unintended consequences of new technologies can impact society.

=__Natural Resources__=
 * GLE 0707.7.5 ** Differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources in terms of their use by man.
 * GLE 0707.7.6 ** Evaluate how human activities affect the earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere.

=__Rocks & Minerals__=


 * GLE 0707.7.1** - Describe the physical properties of minerals.
 * SPI 0707.7.1 -** Use a table of physical properties to classify minerals.
 * CFU 0707.7.1 -** Organize and explain information about the properties of minerals and their uses.


 * GLE 0707.7.2** Summarize the basic events that occur during the rock cycle.
 * SPI 0707.7.3** Identify the major processes that drive the rock cycle.
 * CFU 0707.7.2** Label a diagram that depicts the major processes of the rock cycle.
 * SPI 0707.7.2** Label a diagram that depicts the three different rock types.

=__Layers of the Earth & Plate Tectonics__=
 * GLE 0707.7.3 ** Analyze the characteristics of the earth’s layers and the location of the major plates.
 * GLE 0707.7.4 ** Explain how earthquakes, mountain building, volcanoes, and sea floor spreading are associated with movements of the earth’s major plates.

=__Waves__=
 * GLE 0707.11.5** Compare and contrast the basic parts of a wave.
 * GLE 0707.11.6** Investigate the types and fundamental properties of waves

=Forces & Motion=


 * GLE 0707.11.3** Distinguish between speed and velocity.
 * GLE 0707.11.4** Investigate how Newton's laws of motion explain an object's movement.


 * SPI 0707.11.3** Apply proper equations to solve basic problems pertaining to distance, time, speed, and velocity.
 * SPI 0707.11.4** Identify and explain how Newton's laws of motion relate to the movement of objects.


 * CFU 0707.11.3** Summarize the difference between the speed and velocity based on the distance and amount of time traveled.
 * CFU 0707.11.4** Recognize how a net force impacts an object's motion.

=Simple Machines=


 * GLE 0707.11.1** Identify six types of simple machines.
 * GLE 0707.11.2** Apply the equation for work in experiments with simple machines to determine the amount of force needed to do work.


 * SPI 0707.11.1** Differentiate between the six simple machines.
 * SPI 0707.11.2** Determine the amount of force needed to do work using different simple machines.


 * CFU 0707.11.1** Compare the six types of simple machines.
 * CFU 0707.11.2** Compete an investigation to determine how machines reduce the amount of force needed to do work.

=**__Cells__**=


 * GLE 0707.1.1 -** Make observations and describe the structure and function of organelles found in plant and animal cells.
 * GLE 0707.1.2 -** Summarize how the different levels of organization are integrated within living systems.
 * GLE 0707.1.3 -** Describe the function of different organ systems and how collectively they enable complex multicellular organisms to survive.
 * GLE 0707.1.4 -** Illustrate how cell division occurs in sequential stages to maintain the chromosome number of a species.
 * GLE 0707.1.5 -** Observe and explain how materials move through simple diffusion.

=__Flower Parts__=
 * GLE 0707.4.2** - Demonstrate an understanding of sexual reproduction in flowering plants
 * SPI 0707.4.2** - Match flower parts with their reproductive functions.
 * CFU 0707.4.2** - Label and explain the function of the reproductive parts of a flower.
 * ​CFU 0707.4.3** - Describe various methods of plant pollination.

=__Heredity__=
 * GLE 0707.4.3** - Explain the relationship among genes, chromosomes, and inherited traits.
 * GLE 0707.4.4** - Predict the probable appearance of offspring based on the genetic characteristics of the parents.
 * SPI 0707.4.4** - Interpret a Punnett square to predict possible genetic combinations passed from parents to offspring during sexual reproduction.
 * SPI 0707.4.3** - Describe the relationship among genes, chromosomes, and inherited traits.
 * SPI 0707.Inq.4** - Draw a conclusion that establishes a cause and effect relationship supported by evidence.
 * SPI 0707.T/E.3** - Distinguish between the intended benefits and the unintended consequences of a new technology.
 * CFU 0707.4.4** - Investigate the relationship among DNA, genes, and chromosomes.
 * CFU 0707.4.5** - Explain the differences between dominant and recessive traits.
 * CFU 0707.4.6** - Use a Punnett square to predict the genotypes of offspring resulting from a monohybrid cross.
 * CFU 0707.4.7** - Draw a phenotypically accurate picture of an individual whose traits are modeled by the role of a die.

=__Human Body Systems__=
 * GLE 0707.1.2 -** Summarize how the different levels of organization are integrated within living systems.
 * GLE 0707.1.3** - Describe the function of different organ systems and how collectively they enable complex multi-cellular organisms to survive.
 * CFU 0707.1.6** - Describe the function of different organ systems.
 * CFU 0707.1.7** - Explain how different organ systems interact to enable complex multi-cellular organisms to survive.
 * SPI 0707.1.3** - Explain the basic functions of a major organ system.