Learning Targets

Seventh Grade Science

Students’ 4^th nine weeks grade will be based on evidence they can do the following:

• Determine how temperature affects evaporation and condensation in the atmosphere
• Identify the detailed features of the water cycle in a diagram
• Analyze data and make predictions about weather given a scenario
• Interpret weather data using a weather map
• Differentiate between dominant and recessive traits
• Predict genotypes of offspring in a monohybrid cross using a punnett square
• Select models or illustrations that are representations of DNA
• Associate a change in a DNA molecule with a specific mutation
• Identify different types of genetic engineering and evaluate their impact on society
  
   

Students’ Third Nine Weeks Grade will be based on evidence they can do the following:

• Sequence a series of pictures depicting the movement of chromosomes during mitosis
• Determine what plants need to make food
• Identify photosynthesis as the food making process in plants
• Identify the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration
• Select the structures that animals use to obtain oxygen
• Classify animals according to their means of obtaining oxygen
• Interpret a diagram depicting the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle
• Select the illustration that depicts the movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living things and their environment.
• Match a flower part with its reproductive function
• Distinguish between sexual and asexual methods of reproduction
• Recognize advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction
• Recognize a variety of pollination methods and associated floral adaptations.

Students' first nine week grade will be based on evidence that they are able to do the following:

-          prepare a wet mount slide

-          calculate the field of view

-          measuring mass

-          measure volume

-          measure the length

-          measure width

-          measure height

-          calculate density

-          convert metrics

-          utilize the scientific method

-          distinguish between elements, compounds, and mixtures

-         compare the motion and arrangement of molecules in solids, liquids, and gases

-         classify substances as elements or compounds from their symbols or formulas

 Vocabulary

-          mass

-         displacement

-         hypothesis

-         observation

-     conclusion

-         objective

-         eye piece

-         stage, slide

-         cover slip

-         density

-          volume

-         weight

-         field of view.