Outline of 7th grade life science:
Transcript of Outline of 7th grade life science:
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Alum Rock
7th
grade Life Science Pacing Guide (DRAFT) 2013-2014
Weekly chart attached after this summary.
1st Quarter: 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 of Living 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.
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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 concluding statement 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. (pages 14-33 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 of Living 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.)
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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, 7d Chapters # 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
2nd
Quarter Projects – Model eye, Human disease report & presentation
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.
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
(Cover system 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…
4
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, Protists should 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, compare skeletons 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.
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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, 5b identify 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, 5b endocrine, urinary, excretory
(G 34-41 Diabetes)
Holt Book: Ch #20 pgs. 496-497 and Chapter #21 pages 510-516, 522-525
Human Reproductive system: Standards 5d, 5e
Reproduction body parts & functions (G 504-521)
Videos: The Miracle of Life
4th
Quarter:
4th
Quarter 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 time Standards 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
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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.
THIS is a DRAFT- contact Carol Hagen or Linda Templeton at Sheppard Middle School
for activities, worksheets, labs, projects, samples and all assessment probes. Enjoy!!!
Week
Standards
Topic &
Assessments
Activity/ Labs
Math &
literacy
Book pages
or
worksheet
Lab activities
Videos
August 29-
30
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
Sept 3-6
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
Claims, Evidence Reasoning
Tim and Moby’s
“Scientific Method”
Brain Pop
Sept 9-13
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
Sept 16-20
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”
Sept 23-27
5a, 3d,
Animal
Classification
Kingdoms
Readings on the
6 Kingdoms
Notes in
H 234-239
G 262-267,
580-583
Classification of shoes, seeds,
buttons…
7
7a, 7c, 7e Animals,
Insects
-Is it an animal
Give insect
collection
assignment
journals- make a
flipchart
Introduce
insects…
H 228-229
Read though
requirements
Set due date,
discuss
display box
Bill Nye “Insects”
Assign Insect collection
Sept. 30-Oct.
1st
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
Intro.Microscope Lab
Summary conclusions,
Invertebrates of Africa
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
Compare & contrast essay on
arachnids and insects- literacy
Oct 7-11 Arthropod
Classes
-Life cycle
4 Classes of
Arthropods
Notes in
journals
Holt 341-344 Eyewitness “Insects”
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
Oct 14-18
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.
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
8
Types of cells Prokaryotic
cells, early life
concepts.
Eukaryotic
Holt 90-91
Glencoe
Pages 64-66
Plastic viewers of a cell
Animal cells
-Is it made of
cells
Diagrams to
color
Parts to identify
Holt 92-99 Bill Nye-
Diffusion
Oct 21-25 Plant cells
Paige Keely’s
-Is it a Plant?
Diagram to
color
Parts to identify
Chloroplasts-
Holt 95 Inside a Cell DVD
1a, 1b, 1c,
1d, 1e, 1f,
7a, 7c, 7e
Microscope
viewing of cells
Plastic viewers
with prepared
slides and
written
information
2 paragraph summary
Conclusion
(Microscope wet
mounts- save for
plant unit)
Microscope and
cell quiz
summative
assessment.
Make wet
mount slides of
onion skin cells
and cheek cells.
Microscope lab using
prepared slides.
Analysis and conclusion
Oct 28-31 Skeletal System
3rd
Quarter
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7c, 7e
-Whale and
Shrew*
Parts of the
skeletal system
Holt 468-469
Glencoe
360-361
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
Nov. 4-8
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7c, 7e
Muscular system
-Human body
basics
Parts of the
muscular system
Glencoe
364-367 Bill Nye – Bones and Muscles
Glencoe’s Tim and Moby
“Muscles” Brain Pop
10 Review Questions
9
Muscles in pairs
Bones quiz
Musculoskeletal
test
Glencoe
Chapter 9
Types of
muscles
Holt 472-475
Glencoe
Pgs. 360-367
Chicken wing dissection –
Chicken wing
dissection –
Identify bones,
muscles,
ligaments,
tendons
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning
Nov. 12-15
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7c, 7e
Circulatory
system
(Cardiovascular)
Paige Keely
-Is it a system?
Heart rate &
exercise lab
Heart model
( may need to
review body
systems)
Holt 488-489
Glencoe
397-400
Body
systems
refer to pages
464-467 Holt
Cardiovascular system
worksheet set
Heart Rate Lab
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning.
Bill Nye - Blood Circulation
The Heart Lungs and heart
with oxygen
exchange
Dissection of a
sheep heart
Holt 490-493
Glencoe
Pages 408-
409
Dissection of a sheep heart
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning
Nov. 18-22
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7c, 7e
Heart dissection Glue labeled
diagram in
journal
Glencoe
Pages 397-
401
Bill Nye - Heart
Lab on blood typing, antigens
Blood typing
Chapter 10 The
Pulmonary-
Circulatory
System
Lab on blood
typing,
antigens
Holt 494
Glencoe
Pages 405-
407
Lab Analysis/Conclusions
Claim, Evidence and
Reasoning
Glencoe’s Tim and Moby’s
“Circulation” Brain Pop
10 review questions with active
inspire responders.
Nov. 25-Dec.
6
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7c, 7e
Respiratory
system
Paige Keely
-Respiration
Parts of the
system
Lung model
Glencoe
392-396
Holt 498-501
Respiratory system worksheet
set
Bill Nye- Respiration
Glencoe’s Tim and Moby’s
“Respiration” and
10 review questions with
active responders
Dec 9-13
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7c, 7e
Digestive system
Digestive
System
Introduce body
parts and unit on
nutrition
Human torso on
display
Bill Nye – nutrition
Bill Nye- Digestion
Food labels, carbohydrates lab
Dec 16-20
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7b,7c, 7e
Nutrition
workbook
sections 1-8
Paige Keely
Carbohydrates
id. lab, food
labels lab,
Saliva digestion
CA Dairy
counsel
workbook
Video clips from DVD
matching workbooks
Fats lab,
10
-Is it food? activity
Jan. 6-10
5a, 5b, 5c,
7a, 7c, 7e
Sense of smell
Sense of touch,
Integumentary
system
Smelly lab
Largest organ in
the body, skin
care and
concerns
Holt pg. 521,
476-479
Smells lab
Taste lab
Bill Nye- Smell
Assign
Science fair
project
Fingerprints Use worksheet
and identify 3
types of
fingerprints-
Bill Nye- Skin
Fingerprint lab
Jan 13-17
5a, 5b, 5c,
5g, 7a, 7b,
7c, 7e
Sense of hearing
Making Sound
Worksheet on
sense of hearing
Holt pg. 520
Decibels
Glencoe 476
Bill Nye- Sound
Tim and Moby Sound
10 review questions
Reminder of
science
fair!!!
The parts of the
ear
Worksheet to
label
Model of an ear
Glencoe pgs.
480-488
Labeled diagram
Inquiry Based Tuning forks
Inquiry Based Lab
Give packet Sound waves
& vocal cords Inquiry Based
Lab
Claims,
Evidence,
Reasoning
section
Glencoe pgs.
472-479
Matching worksheets
Sense of sight
Visible light
spectrum
Visible light
spectrum
Mixing Colors
Inquiry Based
Lab
Glencoe
428-437
Holt 52, 54-
58
Light Spectrum worksheet.
Tim and Moby Light and
Color
10 Question Review
Jan 20-24 5g,
7a, 7b, 7c,
7e,
6a- 6g
The Eye
Paige Keely
-Apple in the
dark
Sense of sight
wk sheet
View pupil in
mirror
Model of an eye
Glencoe pgs.
450-453, 456 Eye Witness “Sight”
Quarter 3 Light reflection Reflection
worksheet
Glencoe pgs.
440-441
Holt 59-64
Bill Nye “Light and Color”
Inquiry Based Lab
Jan. 27-31
6a-6g, 5g,
7a, 7b, 7c,
7d,7e
Refraction
Paige Keely
-Can it reflect
light?
Prisms Lab Glencoe
438-439
Holt 65-66
Prisms lab
Happy glasses lab
Inquiry Based Lab
Speed of light Happy Glasses
Lab
Bill Nye “Light Optics”
Feb 3-7 16a-
6g, 5g, 7a,
7b, 7c 7d,7e
Science fair
due next
week!
Concave/convex
Paige Keely
-Birthday
candles
Glasses to
observe
nearsighted and
farsighted
corrections
Worksheets,
Glencoe
443-449
Holt 67-69
Glencoe 451
Bill Nye “Eyeball”
Lenses open inquiry
Eye dissection
Reflections on the dissection
11
diagram, label
and identify
parts of the eye
Feb. 10-14
6a- 6g, 5g,
7a, 7b, 7c,
7d, 7e
Science fair
presentations for
those going to
the finals
Wednesday
through Friday
oral
presentations
Model of an EYE
Due march 8
Feb.24-28
5a, 5b, 7a,
7b, 7c, 7d, 7e
Finish late
science fair
presentations
Paige Keely
-Is it a model?
Brain- learning
patterns
Worksheets on
brain
Show models of
brain
Sign up for
human disease
topics!!!
Holt 511-515 Bill Nye- Brain
Reading color words in
varying colors
February 17-
21st
Presidents
Week
Feb. 25-
March 1
5a, 5b, 5g,
7a, 7b, 7c,
7d, 7e
Eye Model due
Human Disease
Project&
presentations
Students choose
a disease and
make a power
point
Glencoe-
Diabetes
reading
Computer lab 1week
March 3-7
5a, 5b, 5g,
7a, 7b, 7c,
7d, 7e
Writing sample
this week!!
Presentations of human
disease projects
Bill Nye –Germs
March 10-14
Plants
What makes
plants different
from animals
Holt 250-253
Glencoe
Plant
Reproduction
Pages 134-
137
Eyewitness – Plants
Sprouting and germination of
a seed
3a, 3d, 2a,
2d, 5a, 5b,
5f, 4e, 7a, 7c,
7d, 7e
Seedless plants
Paige Keely
-Is it food for
plants?
-Plants in the
dark
Ferns,
horsetails-
Bring in
samples to view
Holt 254-257 Seeds R’ Us Inquiry Lab
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning
3a, 3d, 2a,
2d, 5a, 5b,
5f, 4e, 7a, 7c,
7d, 7e
Plants with seeds
IMSS seeds
Paige Keely
-Giant Sequoia
*
-Needs of seeds
Dissect a seed,
identify parts
Holt 258-263
Eyewitness- Tree
Seed dissection
Growth of a seed
12
March 17th
-
21st
Roots and stems View the cross
sections of trees,
sprout a seed
Holt 264-267
3a, 3d, 2a,
2d, 5a, 5b,
5f, 4e, 7a, 7c,
7d, 7e
Photosynthesis
Meiosis
-Seedlings in a
jar
Revisit Plants in
the dark
Sexual cell
division
Holt 268-269
Holt 140-141
Glencoe
Pages 137-
140
Genes and Chromosomes
Leaf Disk
Lab/Photosynthesis/Respiration
s Inquiry Lab and Story Board
Medels Peas
Punnett squares
Holt 130-134
Holt 135-137
Glencoe
Pages 182-
188
Optional- Clone age, Power of
Genes, Genetics
Quarter 4 Flowers
-Rotting Apple
Dissection of a
flower
Pollination to
reproduce
Holt 270-271 Flower dissection
March 31-
April 4th
2b, 2e, 5e Genetics Can be put in
with family
life???
Bill Nye – Genes
Dragon Lab
Claims, Evidence and
Reasoning.
April 7-11
Family Life
2b, 2e, 5e
Sexual
reproduction
Begin animal
kingdom OR
evolution…
April 14-18
1f, 2a, 2b,
2d, 3a- 3e,
4a-4g
April 21-25
Spring Break
Echinoderms Sea stars,
urchins
Holt 345-347 Bill Nye “Ocean Life”
Squid dissection
Worm dissection
April 28-
May 2nd
Vertebrates vs.
Invertebrates
Compare body
structures
Holt 356-358 Worksheet on vertebrates
May 5-9 Fish/ Sharks Use worksheet
Cold-blooded
Holt 359-363 Eyewitness- Fish and Sharks
1f, 2a, 2b,
2d, 3a- 3e,
4a-4g
Amphibians Amphibian
worksheet
Model of
Salamander.
Frog life cycle
Holt 364-368 Eyewitness- Amphibians
May 12-16
1f, 2a, 2b,
Reptiles
Habitat Change
Reptile
worksheet
Holt 369-373 Eyewitness- Reptiles
13
2d, 3a- 3e,
4a-4g
Lizard skeleton
Compare egg
evolution
Reptile key
Indentifying
Reptiles
Reptile Key
Birds Bird worksheet
Pigeon skeleton,
feather
comparisons
Holt 382-388 Eyewitness- Birds
Bills and beaks lab
Bird
Classification
Habitats, beaks,
evolutionary
adaptations
Holt 389-391
May 19-23
1f, 2a, 2b,
2d, 3a- 3e,
4a-4g
Mammals
-Baby mice
Worksheets on
mammals,
prehistoric
mammals
Holt 392-395 Eyewitness- Mammals
Mammal
Classification
Types of
mammal
adaptations
Holt 396-405 Bill Nye- Marine Mammals
May 27-30
1f, 2a, 2b,
2d, 3a- 3e,
4a-4g, 7a-7e
Endangered
animal power
points
Use computers-
Power point
with specific
slides.
June 2-6
4a, 4b, 4c,
4d, 4e, 4f, 4g
Geologic time
periods
Classroom
presentations of
endangered
animals.
Geologic time
scale, compare
using classroom
wall space or a
timeline.
Holt 202-205
Glencoe 284-
291
Bill Nye- Evolution
Frogger Lab and Story Board
Inquiry Based Lab
June 9-13
4a, 4b, 4c,
4d, 4e, 4f, 4g
Evolution bins
-Biological
evolution
Stations set up
with questions
and tank
viewing to learn
about plant and
animal
evolution
Holt 206-213
Glencoe pg.
240-260
Geological Time Periods
Inquiry Evolution tanks -
stations
ALL 1-7
standards
summary!!
Change over
time.
-Is it fitter?
Darwin,
evidence of
evolution. The
whale story
pages 178-181
Holt 176-183
Glencoe
219-227