Alum Rock
7th grade Life ScienceCurriculum Map
2015-2016
Weekly chart attached after this summary.
1stQuarter:This is an introduction to some Life Science BIG ideas to provide a foundation for all students to develop an understanding of Biological concepts.
Topics: Tools, Scientific Method, Classification ofLiving Organisms, Cells, Insects.
Big Projects: Cell model, Insect collection, Insect report.
Trades & math connections: Insect collection box diagram and construction
Math Standards: Measurement, scientific notation, metric conversion
Text books used: G = Glencoe new edition, H = Holt previous adoption, but still a great book!
Common Core Language Arts Standards are listed below and detailed examples are in the weekly chart.
Language Arts:7th Grade English CA Common Core Standards in Writing:
2b Develop the topic Develop the topic with relevant, facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
2c. Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
2d. Use precision language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
2e. Establish and maintain a formal style.
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Speaking and Listening Standards -7th Grade Comprehension and Collaboration
1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
2a. Come to discussion prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Reading Standards ELA for Grade 7:
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Math: Measurement, scientific notation, metric conversion
G = Glencoe new edition, H = Holt previous adoption, but still a great book!
Literature connections: Conclusion paragraphs, summary essay, compare & contrast essay. Basic research and report writing from an outline
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concludingstatement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Introduction to tools: Old Standards 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e NOW- Cross cutting Concepts of Science and Engineering: Asking Question, Defining Problems, Developing and Using Models, Planning and carrying out an investigation, Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Engaging in Argument from Evidence, Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information.
Spread the tools unit out over several weeks while teaching content and procedures.
Introduce Cells, Classification and Insects while using the tools for activities.
Distance – rulers- include metric unit conversion (measurement worksheet) (page 7 G)
Include area calculations using a ruler with data table in journal (pg. 22-23 H)
Volume – Graduated cylinders, beakers, test tubes, eyedroppers (pages 8-9 G)
Graduated cylinder lab worksheet(pg. 25 H)
Weight/Mass – triple balance beam scales (page 12 G) (pg. 26 H)
Weight/Aims worksheet- weight watchers
Thermometers – Celsius & Fahrenheit (page 8 G) (pg. 26 H)
Lab safety – heating, glassware, goggles, etc, (pages 555-556 G)
Microscope use – Viewing objects, wet mounts, and vocabulary (pages 10-11, 579 G)
Cell labs, insect viewing, vocabulary, plastic viewers (pg.19-20 H)
Scientific Method: Standards 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
Observations, hypothesis, inferring, collecting & analyzing & displaying data, diagrams, scale models, drawing conclusions. (pages14-33 G) (pg. 10-18 H)
Hypothesis reading- page 15 G, pg. 12 H
LABS/activities - drops of water on a penny, observe vs. infer worksheet, microscope lab & jewelers loops drawings
Classification ofLiving Organisms: Standards 1a, 3d, 7a, 7c
Introduce to 5 Kingdoms animal kingdom phylum(G 580- 583)(H 234-237)
Scientific nomenclature: (H 262-265)
Use Arthropods, shoes, seeds or buttons, pest insects and imaginary creatures
3 branches of science (G 4)
What do all living things have in common?(G 48-55)
(Also introduces a cell and shows relative sizes of cells, viruses, etc.)
Insects: Standards 1f, 3a, 3d, 3e, 5a, 5b
Classify insects down to orders; identify classes of arthropods-insects, arachnids, crustaceans, millipedes and centipedes. Standards -1b, 1f, 5a, 5d, 7a
Cricket dissection, view insects with microscope, jewelers loops, large hand lens
Video- Insects, Invertebrates of Africa, butterflies and moths, Bill Nye’s “Insects”
Cell: Standards 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 7dChapters # 1, # 2
Introduction, smallest unit of life, plant & animal cells organelles (G 56-63)
Two types of cells (viruses and bacteria) (G 64-65)
Cell energy & photosynthesis (G 68-72)
Cell division –mitosis (G 88-95)
Basic life forms& levels of organization (G 98-107)
Comparative anatomy (G 252-255)
View with microscope- prepared slides, onion skin cells; check cells, plastic viewer slides of cells, model of a cell, grow yeast
Videos: Bacteria, Inside a cell, Mitosis, (Meiosis- maybe save for genetics unit)
Bill Nye cell,
2nd Quarter: Plants, Senses, Eyes, Light, Human body systems, Begin Science fair
2ndQuarter Projects– Model eye, Human disease report & presentation
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge anddistinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Chapters 11 & 12 Glencoe
5 Senses: Sound, smell, touch, taste and vision. (G450-459, 480-491)
Tuning forks, smelly bottles to learn wafting, 4 tastes, fingerprints, eye dissection
(Coversystem here as well as eye and ear)
Light and Sound: Light spectrum, refraction, reflection (G 428-449, 472, 479)
Refractive lenses, concave & convex lenses, glasses, mirrors
Videos:Eyewitness Sight, Bill Nye: eyeballs, light optics, light & color, skin, smell, sound, brain.
NOTE: Plants can go right after cells or after the sense organs or after the entire human body unit… Sometimes it’s good to mix up things or share equipment, etc.
Plant, Animal and cellular Reproduction and Genetics, Change over time
Standards 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e, 5f
Plant focus:
Sexual reproduction and meiosis, review mitosis, plant life cycles including spores, cuttings, & other seedless plants, flowering plants. (G 134-142)
Revisit Photosynthesis from cell unit… Connect to 8th grade energy- trades unit…
More info on plants - Holt Book: Chapter #11 pp. 250-271 and Chapter #12 pgs. 278-293
Plant classification, types of trees, tree rings, (G 295)
Dissections: Fruit, flower
Videos:Eyewitness: Tree, Plants Bill Nye- Plants, Flowers
Asexual reproduction and cloning (G 151-157)
Review single celled organisms, discuss primitive life forms –
Genetics- Mendel and his peas, Punnett squares(G 172-188)
Worksheet on human traits, Punnett square practice
Phylums: Plants, Animals, Virus, Bacteria, Fungi, Protistsshould be discussed here and related to BIG ideas of all living systems as well as how they differentiate.
Human body unit also includes health standards 1-8- regarding healthy choices, disease prevention, risky behaviors, family health habits, school and community healthy choices, variances in human growth and development.
Body systems:Standards 5a, 5b, 5c, 6h, 6i, 6j, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
Glencoe Chapters 9, 10, 13
Holt chapters are more complete and superior in content.
Skeletal system: Standards 5c, 6h, 6i
Identify about 16 bones, four types of joints & how joints move, compareskeletons of other vertebrates (G 360-363)
Skeleton, animal bones,
Joints as levers, mechanical advantage (G 368-375)
Muscle system: identify 6-8 major muscles, 3 types of muscles, muscle pairs
(G 364-367)
Videos:Eyewitness Skeleton, Bill Nye Bones & muscles
Dissections: owl pellet for comparative anatomy, chicken wing
Human Diseases: Standards 5a, 5b, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
Discuss germs, viruses, present human disease projects
Demo on spreading diseases through casual contact
Video: Viruses, Bill Nye Germs
Quarter 3: The human body systems just seem to continue through the winter.
3rd Quarter Projects: Science Fair, Preparing for the 7th grade writing CST.
Work on Science Fair projects for a week and present them in class – Finalists should be ready for school science fair before Valentine’s Day in February… County science fair 1st week of March this year.
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Respiratory/Pulmonary System: Standards 5a, 5b, 6j
Identify organs (G 392-396)
Discuss smoking, asthma, straw demo of a long time smoker, build a lung.
Circulatory system: identify organs in the system (G 397-403)
Blood typing lab, heart rate, listen to heart & pulse, blood pressure
Videos: Eyewitness- human machine, Ultimate Guide: The human body, Bill Nye respiration, Bill Nye heart
Dissection: Sheep heart
Digestive system: Standards 5a, 5bidentify organs, food diary, nutrition label reading, saliva lab using saltines, titration of acids to simulate stomach acid, fats in snack foods, starch identification lab, sugar in foods demo lab, length of intestines, construct a gut activity.
Also use the California Dairy Counsel booklets on nutrition and DVD clips!!!
Prentice Hall book: Digestive system, Dairy council workbook
Videos: Bill Nye nutrition, Bill Nye digestion, Dairy council DVD
Other body systems: Standards 5a, 5bendocrine, urinary, excretory
(G 34-41 Diabetes)
Holt Book: Ch #20 pgs. 496-497 and Chapter #21pages 510-516, 522-525
Human Reproductive system: Standards 5d, 5e
Reproduction body parts & functions (G 504-521)
Videos: The Miracle of Life
4th Quarter:
4thQuarter Projects: Endangered Animal Report, power point and presentation, making fossils, and environmental awareness poster
Writing in Science:
a. Introduce claims about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s) reasons, and evidence.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Animals: Classification and understanding how animals developed and changed over time, environmental factors,
Geologic time and mass extinctions: (G 316-339) Chapter 8
Tie this into the endangered animal report and global warming
Biological History/Change over timeStandards 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e,Chapters 5 & 6
Evolution: Darwin (G 210-217)
Adaptation & Extinctions (G 219-227)
Fossils & Biological evidence- comparative anatomy (G 244- 256)
Review plate tectonics from 6th grade (G 257-260
Make an insect or plant fossil, read about early insects (Bill Nye Fossils 6th grade)
Finish using the Change over time unit materials & displays from GEMS
Perhaps a timeline should remain up from this unit
Weekly outline with details, ideas, labs, activities writing ideas and of course…
Formative assessments are in italicized/ bolded in column # 2; revisit them as needed.
Page Keeley formative assessments are available to everyone in ARUSD.
Contact Linda Templeton at Sheppard Middle School for activities, worksheets, labs, projects, samples and all assessment probes. Enjoy!!!
AVID Science Strand Part 1 is added this year 2014-2015
WeekStandards / Topic & Assessments / Activity/ Labs
Math & literacy / Book pages or worksheet / Lab activities
Videosh
AVID Strategies WICOR and RIGOR
August 26 -August 31
7a, 7c, 7e / Rules & tools scientific method
-Hypothesis / Classroom rules, course outline, tools
MS dictionary
Safety contract, begin Journal, / Contract & tools
Hypothesis
H 12, G 15 / Signature, finish tools page
AVID Setting Up the Interactive Notebook
September 1-4
5a, 3d, 7a, 7c, 7e / Scientific method- data, graphs, analysis, conclusion
-Doing Science / 7 characteristics of all Living organisms
Begin MS dictionary
Process skills, 3 level intellect. Metric system
Observe & Infer / H 10-18
G 14-27
Is it Alive
Metric measurement / Drops of Water on a Penny and Accuracy and Precision
See AVID WICOR Strategies Pages 160-168 in The Write Path I Science Teacher’s Guide
Include Common Core Claim, Evidence Reasoning in INB(interactive notebook)
Tim and Moby’s
“Scientific Method”
Brain Pop to be implemented into INB
September 7 -
September 11
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e / Measurement
Tools test by the end of the week
Paige Keely’s
-Is it Living? / Metric conversion and measurement of length and mass
How to use the tools
Weight watchers – use tools! / H 22-23
G 7
H 26
G12
Metric conversion
Measuring insects / Bill Nye- Measurement
Metric rulers, scales
Weight Watchers
Tools test
September 14-
September 18
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e / Measurement
& classification
Introduce insect collection. What is an insect
-Functions of Living Things / Metric measurement of volume
Introduce classification / H 24
Volume / Graduated cylinders lab- (aka- Harry Potter lab)
Bill Nye “Invertebrates”
Introduce Cornell Notes AVID Pages 10 -20 and Science Teacher’s Guide
September 21-
September 25
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e / Animal Classification Kingdoms
Animals,
Insects
-Is it an animal
Give insect collection assignment / Readings on the 6 Kingdoms
Notes in journals- make a flipchart
Introduce insects… / H 234-239
G 262-267, 580-583
H 228-229
Read though requirements
Set due date, discuss display box / Classification of shoes, seeds, buttons…
Bill Nye “Insects”
Assign Insect collection
September 28-
October 2 / Scientific names / Use scientific name worksheet / Creature pages coloring activity
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e / Microscope introduction
Okay to introduce insect collection
View objects, insects, prepared slides. / Compare Brock Microscopes to Compound microscopes.
Labeled microscope page
Use white paper for drawings part 1 only / Microscope
H 19-20
G 10-11
Introduction to Jigsaw Sequencing Groups AVID activity
Pg. 207 / Intro.Microscope Lab
Summary conclusions,
Invertebrates of Africa
AVID Vocabulary Development pg 214-218
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e / Insect introduction
Arthropods / Draw an insect using jeweler’s loops/ hand lens. Must measure a frame and label body parts / H 339-340
Use Venn Diagram
AVID Science Rubric pgs. 259-261 / Compare & contrast essay on arachnids and insects- literacy
Introduction to Venn Diagram
See AVID page 259-261
October 5–
October 9 / Arthropod Classes
-Life cycle / 4 Classes of Arthropods
Notes in journals / Holt 341-344 / Eyewitness “Insects”
AVID
Comparative Analysis Pages 256-265
5a, 3d,
7a, 7c, 7e / Insect viewing Box
Classification of insects- orders
Insect written report due by end of quarter / Draw a 3-D diagram, make box in class with cardboard and an overhead sheet for a viewing window / TRADES connection
Overheads of 8 insect orders
Cricket vocabulary, body parts / Bill Nye- Spiders
Cricket dissection
Glue and label parts
Insect report – literacy Use computers for research
October 12–
October 16
1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 7a, 7c, 7e / START Cells
Life organization
-Cells / While students collect insects- split days between cell content and insect box construction. / Holt 80-83
Cells
Glencoe Pages 48-50 / Tim and Moby’s “Cell”
Brain Pop
10 review questions with active inspire responders (electronic responders)
Introduction of Cells / Cell is the basic unit of life, cell theory
Read about. / Holt 85-89
Glencoe Pages 51-55,
Pages 56-63 / Bill Nye- Cell
Types of cells / Prokaryotic cells, early life concepts. Eukaryotic / Holt 90-91
Glencoe Pages 64-66 / Plastic viewers of a cell
Observation Verses Inference AVID pgs. 78-81
Animal cells
-Is it made of cells / Diagrams to color
Parts to identify / Holt 92-99
October 19 –
October 23 / Plant cells
Paige Keely’s
-Is it a Plant? / Diagram to color
Parts to identify
Chloroplasts- / Holt 95 / Inside a Cell DVD
AVID pgs. 102-108
Science Photo Project
1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 7a, 7c, 7e / Microscope viewing of cells / Plastic viewers with prepared slides and written information / AVID Diamante Poem AVID pages 262-263 for animal cell / 2 paragraph summary
Conclusion
AVID GIST Summary Pg. 73
(Microscope wet mounts- save for plant unit)
Microscope and cell quiz summative assessment. / Make wet mount slides of onion skin cells and cheek cells. / Haiku or Cinquain Poem
AVID Page72 / Microscope lab using prepared slides.
Analysis and conclusion
October 26 –
October 30 / Skeletal System
3rd Quarter
5a, 5b, 5c, 7a, 7c, 7e / -Whale and Shrew* / Parts of the skeletal system / Holt 468-469
Glencoe
360-361 / AVID Critical Reading in Science Graphic Organizer
Bones of the body / Names of 15-18 major bones- Model Skeleton / Labeled diagram / Eyewitness-Skeleton
What’s in a bone / Marrow, blood, relate to diseases / Holt pg. 470
Joints in the body / Model human body parts and categorize, / Glencoe
362-363 / Glencoe
Tim and Moby’s “Joints and Muscles” Brain Pop 10 review questions
Levers as joints / Compare body parts to common levers. (Physics) / Holt 471
Glencoe
368-375 / Glencoe
Tim and Moby’s “Levers”
Brain Pop
10 review questions
Owl Pellet dissection / Identify bones of rodents, label and glue / Dissection key / Owl Pellet dissection