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Life Science
7th Grade Standard 2.1 7.Life Science.2.1 Individual organisms with certain traits are more likely than others to
survive and have offspring in a specific environment.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. What is the relationship between an
organism’s traits and its potential for survival
and reproduction?
2. How is the use of the word "adaptation”
different in everyday usage than in biology?
3. What are some reasons why a given
organism with specific traits may or may not
survive to have offspring in a certain
environment?
4. What are some adaptations to help species
survive and have reproductive success?
5. What determines which traits help an
organism survive in its environment?
6. How does our knowledge of how organisms
adapt to their environment help us modify
organisms for human benefit?
7. What causes a species to go extinct?
8. What happens to a system when a species
becomes extinct?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Develop, communicate, and justify an
evidence-based explanation for why a given
organism with specific traits will or will not
survive to have offspring in a given
environment.
b. Analyze and interpret data about specific
adaptations to provide evidence and develop
claims about differential survival and
reproductive success.
c. Use information and communication
technology tools to gather information from
credible sources, analyze findings, and draw
conclusions to create and justify an evidence-
based scientific explanation.
d. Use computer simulations to model
differential survival and reproductive success
associated with specific traits in a given
environment.
Academic Vocabulary:
adaptation
biological
diversity
environmental
evolution
extinction
genetic trait
genetics
interaction
offspring
organism
population
Assessment:
1. Use the Exit Ticket found below.
2, 5, & 8. Assessments are built into the
lessons.
3. The answers to the discussions questions
found toward the end of the lesson plan can be
used as assessment. Also, there is a writing
assignment with rubric built into the lesson.
4. Toward the bottom of the lesson is a
heading called Analysis Questions. There are
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7th Grade Standard 2.1 reproduction
species
survival
time
trait
four ideas that could be used for assessment to
this activity.
6. The DNA models will be assessed for
accuracy.
7. Determine accuracy of information
presented in the Vokis. Assessment is also
suggested in the lesson.
1. Endangered Exit Ticket
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Students describe characteristics of the
horseshoe crab and specify how living fossils
like the horseshoe crab differ from most other
species. Have them list several strategies that
can be undertaken by humans to protect
endangered species and provide at least one
example of species interconnectedness, as well
as how the population decline of one species
adversely affects another species.
2. Follow the link and download Variation and
Natural Selection. Students explore why
variation is important to the survival of a
species. They identify examples of discrete
and continuous variation and distinguish
inherited and environmental causes of
variation.
3. Investigating Natural Selection: Students
explain natural selection in terms of how
certain individuals survived and passed on
their genetic information. They relate natural
selection to current happenings (antibiotic
resistance, endangered species.)
4. Natural Selection Candy Lab: Model the
idea of natural selection by using the student
preferences for different types of candy over
others.
Resources/Technology:
Adaptations in Cold Environments Video
Animal Adaptations Video
Plant Adaptations Video
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
Serendip Website
Stickleback Evolution
The Science Queen
Animal Adaptations Resources
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7th Grade Standard 2.1 5. Evolution by Natural Selection
Lab: Principles of natural selection are
demonstrated by a simulation of how different
adaptations contribute to differences in
survival and reproductive success, which
results in changing frequencies of genotypes
in the populations.
6. Edible DNA: Students identify the six main
parts of a DNA molecule and correctly pair
DNA bases together in a model.
7. Voki Animal: Download Voki and register
at voki.com. Have the students create their
own animal species and learn how to write the
animal type and name (genus species.)
8. The Perfect Cow Lesson: This lesson
focuses on how and why humans have been so
successful in selectively breeding cattle, while
also exploring the limitations and
consequences of this success.
1. Endangered Relationships
3. Natural Selection Lesson Plan
4. Natural Selection Candy Activity
5. Evolution by Natural Selection Student
5. Evolution by Natural Selection Teacher
7. Voki Animals
8. The Perfect Cow Lesson
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7th Grade Standard 2.2 7.Life Science.2.2 The human body is composed of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs,
and organ systems that have specific functions and interactions.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. How does each body system contribute to
supporting the life of the organism?
2. How do organs and organ systems in the
human body interact to perform specific
functions?
3. How can models help us to better
understand the human body?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Develop and design a scientific
investigation about human body systems.
b. Develop, communicate, and justify an
evidence-based scientific explanation
regarding the functions and interactions of the
human body.
c. Gather, analyze, and interpret data and
models on the functions and interactions of the
human body.
Academic Vocabulary:
atom
cell
function
human body
model
molecule
organ system
organ
relationship
scale
structure
system
tissue
Assessment:
1. The Check for Understanding suggestions
and worksheets in the lesson can be used for
assessment.
2, 9, &10. Assessment is built into lesson.
3. For assessment, have students draw a
graphic describing the levels of organization
from a cell to an individual organism.
4. Examine the correctness of content and
completion of notes from the PowerPoint.
5. Assessment ideas are located in the lesson
under Closure.
6. A rubric is included in the lesson.
7. The assessment is included in the Webquest
directions.
8. Evaluate the student PowerPoints.
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Exploring Structure and Function in
Biological Systems: Students distinguish
Resources/Technology:
Digestive System Game
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7th Grade Standard 2.2 between levels of organization in biological
systems and understand how levels of
organization are connected across systems.
2. Download the SMART Notebook Lesson
Organize Me. Review the levels of biological
organization from atom to biosphere.
3. From Egg to Chicken Lab: Students
investigate levels of organization by observing
a chicken egg, wing, and internal organs. The
cell membrane is also explored using the
chicken egg membrane as a model.
4. The Organization in the Body PowerPoint
explains levels of biological organization from
the cell to organism.
5. Cell Organization Inquiry Lab: The level of
organization of organisms goes from atoms to
molecules to cells to tissues to organs to organ
systems to organisms. Students go through the
levels and list specific examples of each.
6. Have students create a Body System Travel
Brochure.
7. The Organ Trail Web Quest: Students
engage in this interactive learning experience
to learn about organs and organ systems.
8. Systems of Our Human Body- A Study
through PowerPoint: This is a student-led
exploration of the systems of the human body
through technology. Students work
cooperatively to develop a PowerPoint
presentation that thoroughly explains each
system.
9. The Human Body Inc Lesson Plan: In this
technology-based project, students take on the
role of a legal defense team and prepare the
court defense for a body organ that is currently
an employee of Human Body Inc.
Body Depot
Protein Science
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
The Science Spot
Free Human Body Lesson Plans
Human Body Lesson Plans
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7th Grade Standard 2.2 10. The Bod Machine Unit: Students explain
the functions necessary to maintain life and
practice sharing the work equally in a group.
1. Exploring Sturcture and Function Activity
2. Organize Me SMART Activity
3. Egg to Chicken Activity
4. Share My Lesson Site
4. Organization in the Body PowerPoint
5. Cell Organization Inquiry Lab
6. Travel Brochure of the Body System
7. The Organ Trail Web Quest
8. Systems of the Body Lesson Plan
9. The Human Body Inc Lesson
10. The Bod Machine Unit
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7th Grade Standard 2.3 7.Life Science.2.3 Cells are the smallest unit of life that can function independently and
perform all the necessary functions of life.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. How is the basic structure of a cell related
to its function?
2. How are the components (organelles) of a
cell related to the cell’s function?
3. How are various cells unique and what do
they have in common with other cells?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Gather, analyze, and interpret data and
models on the different types of cells, their
structures, components, and functions.
b. Develop, communicate, and justify an
evidence-based scientific explanation
regarding cell structures, components, and
their specific functions.
c. Compare and contrast the basic structures
and functions of plant cells, animal cells, and
single-celled organisms.
d. Employ tools to gather, view, analyze, and
report results for the scientific investigations
of cells.
Academic Vocabulary:
animal cell
cell structure
cell
centriole
cytoplasm
lysosome
mitochondrion
nucleus
organelle
plant cell
plasma membrane
ribosome
rough endoplasmic reticulum
single-celled organism
smooth endoplasmic reticulum
tissue
vacuole
Assessment:
1, 2, 6, 7, & 8. Assessments are built into the
lessons.
3. Assessment questions are in lesson plan.
4. Lab questions are built into the lesson for
assessment. Rubrics are attached in the lesson
to evaluate activity sheets.
5. Use the worksheet for assessment.
6. Different assessment based on what you
choose to do. They are built into the lessons.
9. The finished cookie is the assessment.
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Download and use the SMART Notebook
Lesson on Cell Structure for students to learn
the names and functions of cell organelles.
Resources/Technology:
Organelles Game
Plant Cells Video, Karaoke, and Quiz
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7th Grade Standard 2.3 2. Share My Lesson Plant and Animal Cells:
Sign up and then save the lesson to a hard
drive. This is a free site that has multiple
lessons on a wide range of topics. Choose
what works for your class. Assessments are
typically built into the lessons.
3. Students identify the cell as the common
unit of life in all organisms, learn how single
celled organisms carry out different life
functions, explore how cells divide during the
process of mitosis, learn how cell
specialization occurs in embryos, compare the
structure and function of different specialized
cells, and identify the location of specialized
cells in the body.
4. Cell Structure and Function Lab: Students
draw and label cell organelles observed under
a light microscope. They identify similarities
and differences of prokaryotic and eukaryotic
cells, then identify similarities and differences
between plant and animal cells.
5. Virtual Tour of a Cell: Students engage in a
virtual tour and complete an affiliated
worksheet.
6. Cell Structure and Function Lesson Plan:
This resource contains multiple ideas for
warm-ups, journal entries, and web activities
on cell structures and functions.
7. The Cell Lesson: This series of lessons was
designed to meet the needs of gifted children
for extension beyond the standard curriculum
with the greatest ease of use for the educator.
(Identified for Grade 5, but it is a well-
developed lesson that can be modified for use
in Grade 7.)
8. Animal Cell Unit: Students differentiate the
characteristics of animal and plant cells,
identify and name at least six organelles in the
cell, match the function to the organelle on a
Animal Cells Video and Quiz
Cells as Building Blocks
Free Lesson Plans
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
Protein Science
Cell PowerPoint
Cellular Lesson Plans
Cell Organelles Crossword Puzzle
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7th Grade Standard 2.3 cell model, and build a three-dimensional
model of a plant or animal cell.
9. Cell Cookie Lesson Plan: Students construct
a cookie that looks like a cell.
1. SmartExchange Cell Structure
2. Share My Lesson Plant and Animal Cell
Lesson
3. Cellular Structure and Function Lesson
4. Cell Structure and Function Lab
4. Cell Structure and Function Activities
5. Virtual Tour of a Cell
5. Inside a Cell Worksheet
6. Cell Structure and Function Activities
7. The Cell Lesson
8. Animal Cell Unit
9. Cell Cookie Lesson Plan
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7th Grade Standard 2.4 7.Life Science.2.4 Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are important processes by which
energy is acquired and utilized by organisms.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. What is the relationship between
photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
2. What energy transformations occur in both
the processes of photosynthesis and cellular
respiration?
3. How can computer simulations help us
distinguish the relationship between
photosynthesis and cellular respiration within
plants?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Gather, analyze, and interpret data regarding
the basic functions of photosynthesis and
cellular respiration.
b. Use direct and indirect evidence to describe
the relationship between photosynthesis and
cellular respiration within plants and between
plants and animals.
c. Use computer simulations to model the
relationship between photosynthesis and
cellular respiration within plants and between
plants and animals.
Academic Vocabulary:
cellular respiration
direct evidence
indirect evidence
organism
photosynthesis
process
Assessment:
1, 4, 5, 6, & 7. Assessment is located within
lesson.
2. This is an interactive activity, so there no
assessment other than informal observations of
student responses.
3. Assess the accuracy and content of the final
poster using the project questions as an
evaluative guide.
Pre or Post-Assessment for cellular respiration
and photosynthesis. This could also be
modified to be used as a worksheet or quiz.
Pre-Post Assessment
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. This lab activity demonstrates whether CO2
is consumed or released by plants as evidence
of photosynthesis.
Resources/Technology:
Video, Karaoke, and Quiz
Buzzle on Cell Respiration
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7th Grade Standard 2.4 2. Leaf Photosynthesis Activity: This NetLogo
model of leaf photosynthesis shows the
macroscopic outcome of the reaction.
3. Poster Activity: Have students create a
poster of photosynthesis.
4. Cell Respiration: In this lesson, students
compare the basic energy transfer in
photosynthesis and cell respiration with a
focus on the role of ATP. Worksheets, labs,
and assessments are included in the body of
the document.
5. Energy from Food: In this lab activity,
students use microscopes to view parts of a
leaf and then conduct an experiment to
demonstrate the role of light and CO2 in
photosynthesis.
6. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Activity: Students use real plants to observe
how photosynthesis and cellular respiration
occur.
7. Photosynthesis in Action Lesson: The
students watch videos, participate in
interactive demonstrations, and engage in
tasks to learn about the process of
photosynthesis.
1. Consume or Release CO2 Activity
2. Leaf Photosynthesis Interactive Activity
3. Poster Project
6. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Lesson Plan
7. Photosynthesis in Action Lesson
7. Student Webquest for Photosynthesis in
Action
Free Clip Art
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
Science Class.net
Structure of a Leaf and Photosynthesis
Interactive Intro to Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis PowerPoints
Plants in Motion Videos
Games and Activities about Plants
Photosynthesis Lesson Plans
Cellular Respiration Lesson Plans
Interactive Photosynthesis Model
Interactive Learning Module on
Photosynthesis 4-H
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7th Grade Standard 2.5 7.Life Science.2.5 Multiple lines of evidence show the evolution of organisms over geologic
time.
Essential Questions - 21st Century Skills
and Readiness Competencies:
1. What might life on Earth have been like in
the distant past and what evidence is there for
this?
2. How does the evidence about the way life
has evolved on Earth from long ago tell us
about Earth today?
3. What are some causes and effects of a mass
extinction event?
4. What are some ways that organisms and the
environment have evolved over time?
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Interpret and analyze data from the fossil
record to support a claim that organisms and
environments have evolved over time.
b. Analyze and critique the evidence regarding
the causes and effects of a mass extinction
event.
c. Analyze and interpret data that show human
evolution.
d. Use technology to share research findings
about the evidence regarding the causes and
effects of a mass extinction event.
Academic Vocabulary:
environment
evolution
fossil
geologic time
human evolution
mass extinction
organism
Assessment:
1. No assessment needed.
2, 4, 5, 6, & 7. Assessments are built into the
lessons.
3. Assessment is built into the lesson. Use this
rubric.
Suggested Activities/Strategies:
1. Take a tour of the Galapagos Islands with
this interactive virtual tour. This is an activity
to explore the Galapagos and to see what led
Darwin to his theory of natural selection.
2. Paleontologist's Path: This activity
demonstrates what the environment was like at
Florissant, Colorado 35 million years ago.
Students examine and classify fossils and infer
how the environment has changed over time.
3. Learning Evolution: In this lesson, students
learn about the process of human evolution by
interacting with a Web activity and examining
possible hominid family trees.
Resources/Technology:
Evolution and Tree of Life Genetics
Evidence of Relationship
Seven Short Evolution Videos
Permian Extinction Video
Evolution's Extinction Video
NOVA In Search of Human Origins Clip
Marsupials and Mammals Graphic
Free Clip Art
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7th Grade Standard 2.5 4. Fossil Evidence for Evolution: This is an
extended lesson plan that investigates the
fossil record through activities. The plan
contains numerous resources and assessments.
5. Interactive investigation- The Arthropod
Story: This interactive activity delves into the
world of the arthropods and examines their
success and evolutionary constraints.
6. What Did T-Rex Taste Like: In this web-
based module, students are introduced to
cladistics, which organizes living things by
common ancestry and evolutionary
relationships.
7. Dinosaur Evolution Project: Students
pretend to evolve two dinosaurs using genetics
and watch how the dinosaurs adapt to the
environmental change. (Designed for High
School but can be suitably adapted for Grade
7.)
1. Galapagos Island Virtual Tour
2. Paleontologist's Path
5. Interactive Investigation Arthropod Story
6. What Did T-Rex Taste Like
7. Dinosaur Evolution Project
Free PowerPoints
Free Interactive Games
Free I-pad Apps
Slide Show on All Living Things
Site with Multiple Evolution Presentations
Evolution Lessons
Article on Fossil Evidence
Article on Homologies
Diagram on Time and Space
Natural Selection Evidence WorkSheet
Natural Selection Lesson Plans
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