Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
SC.7.N.1: The Practice of Science
SC.7.N.1.A: Scientific inquiry is a multifaceted activity; The processes of science include the formulation of scientifically investigable questions, construction of investigations into those questions, the collection of appropriate data, the evaluation of the meaning of those data, and the communication of this evaluation.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Time Estimation
SC.7.N.1.B: The processes of science frequently do not correspond to the traditional portrayal of "the scientific method."
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
Seed Germination
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Temperature and Sex Determination - Metric
SC.7.N.1.C: Scientific argumentation is a necessary part of scientific inquiry and plays an important role in the generation and validation of scientific knowledge.
SC.7.N.1.D: Scientific knowledge is based on observation and inference; it is important to recognize that these are very different things. Not only does science require creativity in its methods and processes, but also in its questions and explanations.
SC.7.N.1.1: Define a problem from the seventh grade curriculum, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigation of various types, such as systematic observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.
Feel the Heat
Graphing Skills
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Time Estimation
SC.7.N.1.2: Differentiate replication (by others) from repetition (multiple trials).
Growing Plants
Seed Germination
Temperature and Sex Determination - Metric
SC.7.N.1.3: Distinguish between an experiment (which must involve the identification and control of variables) and other forms of scientific investigation and explain that not all scientific knowledge is derived from experimentation.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Seed Germination
Temperature and Sex Determination - Metric
SC.7.N.1.4: Identify test variables (independent variables) and outcome variables (dependent variables) in an experiment.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
Seed Germination
SC.7.E.6: Over geologic time, internal and external sources of energy have continuously altered the features of Earth by means of both constructive and destructive forces. All life, including human civilization, is dependent on Earth's internal and external energy and material resources.
SC.7.E.6.2: Identify the patterns within the rock cycle and relate them to surface events (weathering and erosion) and sub-surface events (plate tectonics and mountain building).
SC.7.E.6.5: Explore the scientific theory of plate tectonics by describing how the movement of Earth's crustal plates causes both slow and rapid changes in Earth's surface, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and mountain building.
SC.7.E.6.6: Identify the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Pond Ecosystem
Rabbit Population by Season
Water Pollution
SC.7.E.6.7: Recognize that heat flow and movement of material within Earth causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and creates mountains and ocean basins.
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Plate Tectonics
SC.7.P.10: Forms of Energy
SC.7.P.10.A: Energy is involved in all physical processes and is a unifying concept in many areas of science.
SC.7.P.10.B: Energy exists in many forms and has the ability to do work or cause a change.
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Sled Wars
SC.7.P.10.1: Illustrate that the sun's energy arrives as radiation with a wide range of wavelengths, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, and that white light is made up of a spectrum of many different colors.
Heat Absorption
Herschel Experiment - Metric
Radiation
SC.7.P.10.2: Observe and explain that light can be reflected, refracted, and/or absorbed.
Basic Prism
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
Refraction
SC.7.P.10.3: Recognize that light waves, sound waves, and other waves move at different speeds in different materials.
Longitudinal Waves
Ripple Tank
SC.7.P.11: Energy Transfer and Transformations
SC.7.P.11.A: Waves involve a transfer of energy without a transfer of matter.
SC.7.P.11.B: Water and sound waves transfer energy through a material.
Longitudinal Waves
Ripple Tank
SC.7.P.11.D: The Law of Conservation of Energy: Energy is conserved as it transfers from one object to another and from one form to another.
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Trebuchet
SC.7.P.11.1: Recognize that adding heat to or removing heat from a system may result in a temperature change and possibly a change of state.
SC.7.P.11.2: Investigate and describe the transformation of energy from one form to another.
Energy Conversion in a System
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
SC.7.L.15: Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms
SC.7.L.15.C: Natural Selection is a primary mechanism leading to change over time in organisms.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
Evolution
SC.7.L.15.2: Explore the scientific theory of evolution by recognizing and explaining ways in which genetic variation and environmental factors contribute to evolution by natural selection and diversity of organisms.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
SC.7.L.16: Heredity and Reproduction
SC.7.L.16.A: Reproduction is characteristic of living things and is essential for the survival of species.
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
SC.7.L.16.B: Genetic information is passed from generation to generation by DNA; DNA controls the traits of an organism.
DNA Analysis
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
SC.7.L.16.C: Changes in the DNA of an organism can cause changes in traits, and manipulation of DNA in organisms has led to genetically modified organisms.
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
SC.7.L.16.1: Understand and explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits, that this hereditary information (DNA) contains genes located in the chromosomes of each cell, and that heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another.
SC.7.L.16.2: Determine the probabilities for genotype and phenotype combinations using Punnett Squares and pedigrees.
Chicken Genetics
Fast Plants® 2 - Mystery Parent
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
SC.7.L.16.3: Compare and contrast the general processes of sexual reproduction requiring meiosis and asexual reproduction requiring mitosis.
SC.7.L.17: Interdependence
SC.7.L.17.A: Plants and animals, including humans, interact with and depend upon each other and their environment to satisfy their basic needs.
SC.7.L.17.B: Both human activities and natural events can have major impacts on the environment.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Pond Ecosystem
Water Pollution
SC.7.L.17.C: Energy flows from the sun through producers to consumers.
SC.7.L.17.1: Explain and illustrate the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Forest Ecosystem
Ecosystems
SC.7.L.17.2: Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism.
Food Chain
Prairie Ecosystem
Ecosystems
SC.7.L.17.3: Describe and investigate various limiting factors in the local ecosystem and their impact on native populations, including food, shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism, predation, and nesting sites.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Food Chain
Prairie Ecosystem
Rabbit Population by Season
Correlation last revised: 4/14/2021