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Big Idea 1: The Practice of Science.
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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.What is Science? video, ClosedCaptions -
SC.7.N.1.2 Differentiate replication (by others) from repetition (multiple trials).What is Science? video, ClosedCaptions What is Science?: Repeat and Replicate video Review Scientific Process-6 practice Review Scientific Process-5 practice -
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.What is an Experiment? video, text page, learnalong -
SC.7.N.1.4 Identify test variables (independent variables) and outcome variables (dependent variables) in an experiment.Floating Cups video, checked Testing for Tannic Acid video Review Scientific Process-1 practice Review Scientific Process-2 practice Review Scientific Process-9 practice Review Scientific Process-11 practice -
SC.7.N.1.5 Describe the methods used in the pursuit of a scientific explanation as seen in different fields of science such as biology, geology, and physicsThe Right Answer video -
SC.7.N.1.6 Explain that empirical evidence is the cumulative body of observations of a natural phenomenon on which scientific explanations are based.What is Science? video, ClosedCaptions Floating Cups video, checked The Importance of Observation video Coins Through a Hole video, checked -
SC.7.N.1.7 Explain that scientific knowledge is the result of a great deal of debate and confirmation within the science community.
Big Idea 2: The Characteristics of Scientific Knowledge
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SC.7.N.2.1 Identify an instance from the history of science in which scientific knowledge has changed when new evidence or new interpretations are encountered.
Big Idea 3: The Role of Theories, Laws, Hypotheses, and Models
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SC.7.N.3.1 Recognize and explain the difference between theories and laws and give several examples of scientific theories and the evidence that supports them.Is Gravity a Theory or a Law? text page, free When Does a Theory Become a Law? text page, free, checked -
SC.7.N.3.2 Identify the benefits and limitations of the use of scientific models.How Does a Butterfly Fly? text page, free
Big Idea 6: Earth Structures
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SC.7.E.6.1 Describe the layers of the solid Earth, including the lithosphere, the hot convecting mantle, and the dense metallic liquid and solid cores. -
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).Evaporites video, learnalong, checked What is a Rock? video, learnalong, checked The Rock Cycle video, learnalong Change: Fast and Slow video Erosion video, checked Continuous Change video, checked Bioclastics: Rocks With No Minerals video Weathering and Erosion video, learnalong, checked Review Rocks-6 practice Review Rocks-8 practice Review Rocks-9 practice Review Rocks-7 practice Review Rocks-10 practice Review Rocks-10 practice Review Rocks-1 practice Review Erosion-1 practice Review Erosion-2 practice Review Erosion-3 practice Review Erosion-4 practice Review Erosion-5 practice Review Rocks-4 practice Review Rocks-5 practice -
SC.7.E.6.3 Identify current methods for measuring the age of Earth and its parts, including the law of superposition and radioactive dating.Imagining Geologic Time video Reading the Rocks: Law of Superposition video Reading the Rocks: Law of Crosscutting video Reading the Rocks text page Review Geologic Time-1 practice Review Geologic Time-2 practice Review Geologic Time-3 practice -
SC.7.E.6.4 Explain and give examples of how physical evidence supports scientific theories that Earth has evolved over geologic time due to natural processes.Evaporites video, learnalong, checked Imagining Geologic Time video Reading the Rocks: Law of Superposition video Reading the Rocks: Law of Crosscutting video Reading the Rocks: The Present is the Key to the Past video, ClosedCaptions -
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.Faults video, free, Updated Understanding the Richter Scale text page, free Making Fault Blocks text page -
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. -
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.
Big Idea 10: Forms of Energy
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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.About Microwaves video, checked Microwave Chocolate video, checked A Color You Can't See video, free, checked Looking for Rainbows video Sunprints video Sunglass Science: Birefringence video, free, Updated Sunglass Science: Polarized Light video, free, Updated Sunlight, Energy, and Crayons text page, free -
SC.7.P.10.2 Observe and explain that light can be reflected, refracted, and/or absorbed.Sunglass Science: Birefringence video, free, Updated Sunglass Science: Polarized Light video, free, Updated Mirage video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated Pinhole Eyeglasses video, checked Why Wet Things Turn Dark video, checked Growing Crystals Under the Microscope video, free, learnalong, checked Finding Fat in Foods video, ClosedCaptions, checked Changing the Speed of Light video Onion Crystals video Why is Foam White? video, checked Microscopes: Growing Crystals video, free, learnalong, Updated A Long Lens text page Sunlight, Energy, and Crayons text page, free Review Light-1 practice Review Light-2 practice Review Light-3 practice Review Light-4 practice Review Light-5 practice -
SC.7.P.10.3 Recognize that light waves, sound waves, and other waves move at different speeds in different materials.Sunglass Science: Polarized Light video, free, Updated Noisy String video, checked Mirage video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated Spoon Bells video, checked The Singing Glass video, checked Changing the Speed of Light video Doppler Effect video, checked Sunglass Science: Birefringence video, free, Updated A Real Tuning Fork text page Comparing How Sound Moves Through Liquids and Gases text page
Big Idea 11: Energy Transfer and Transformations
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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.Crushed Can video, checked The Science of Pizza video, checked Heating a Balloon video, ClosedCaptions, checked Why We Sweat video, checked Ice Cream Science video, checked A Model of the Water Cycle video, ClosedCaptions, checked A Cool Experiment text page -
SC.7.P.11.2 Investigate and describe the transformation of energy.The Rollback Can video, free, Updated High Bounce video, checked Review Energy-3 practice -
SC.7.P.11.3 Cite evidence to explain that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another.High Bounce video, checked -
SC.7.P.11.4 Observe and describe the ways that heat moves.Cloud Formation, part 2 video How Heat Moves video, checked The Science of Pizza video, checked Heating a Balloon video, ClosedCaptions, checked
Big Idea 15: Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms
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SC.7.L.15.1 Recognize that fossil evidence is consistent with the scientific theory of evolution that living things evolved from earlier species.Imagining Geologic Time video Paleo Cookies video -
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.Who Evolved on First? text page, free, checked Review Adaptation-1 practice -
SC.7.L.15.3 Explore the scientific theory of evolution by relating how the inability of a species to adapt within a changing environment may contribute to the extinction of that species.Thoughts on an Exoskeleton text page, free Review Adaptation-5 practice Review Adaptation-6 practice
Big Idea 16: Heredity and Reproduction
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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.Extracting Your Own DNA video Fact checking GMOs text page Review Cells-4 practice -
SC.7.L.16.2 Determine the probabilities for genotype and phenotype combinations using Punnett Squares and pedigrees.Punnett Squares text page -
SC.7.L.16.3 Compare and contrast the general processes of sexual reproduction requiring meiosis and asexual reproduction requiring mitosis.Review Plants-3 practice -
SC.7.L.16.4 Recognize and explore the impact of biotechnology (cloning, genetic engineering, artificial selection) on the individual, society and the environment.Extracting Your Own DNA video Fact checking GMOs text page
Big Idea 16: Heredity and Reproduction
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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.Producers video, free, Updated, checked Primary Consumers video, ClosedCaptions, Updated, checked Measuring Calories video, ClosedCaptions, checked Scavengers and Decomposers video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated Secondary Consumers video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated, checked What is a Food Web? text page, free, checked Food Web Tag text page Review Food Web-2 practice Review Food Web-1 practice Review Food Web-3 practice Review Food Web-4 practice Review Food Web-5 practice Review Food Web-6 practice Review Food Web-7 practice Review Food Web-8 practice Review Food Web-9 practice Review Food Web-10 practice -
SC.7.L.17.2 Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism.Secondary Consumers video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated, checked Review Food Web-11 practice Review Food Web-12 practice -
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.Primary Consumers video, ClosedCaptions, Updated, checked Quadrats and Population Sampling video, ClosedCaptions