Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
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.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.16.1: 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.17.1: 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
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.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.11.1: 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
Correlation last revised: 2/22/2023