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Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
The student demonstrates an understanding of the structure, function, behavior, development, life cycles, and diversity of living organisms by describing the functions and interdependence of human body systems (i.e., circulatory, respiratory, nervous).
Life Processes and Technology Application
Enduring Understanding: The life processes of organisms are affected by their interactions with each other and their environment, and may be altered by human manipulation.
The functioning and health of organisms are influenced by many factors (i.e., heredity, diet, lifestyle, bacteria, viruses, parasites, and the environment). Certain body structures and systems function to protect against disease and injury. (Level: Important)
Diversity, Adaptation, and Behavior: Identify structural and behavioral adaptations.
Describe how an organism can maintain a stable internal environment while living in a constantly changing external environment.
Scientific Testing (Investigating and Modeling): Design and conduct controlled investigations.
Design an investigation to test individual variables using scientific processes.
Physical Principles in Living Systems (Physical Science)
Physical principles underlie biological structures and functions. As a basis for understanding this concept:
Students know how levers confer mechanical advantage and how the application of this principle applies to the musculoskeletal system.
Develop an understanding of the cyclical changes controlled by energy from the sun and by Earth's position and motion in our solar system.
Grade Level Expectation: Understanding Scientific Inquiry: Explain how technology can expand the senses and contribute to the increase and/or modification of scientific knowledge (SI-M-B3)
The student demonstrates an understanding of the forces that shape Earth by describing how the movement of the tectonic plates results in both slow changes (e.g., formation of mountains, ocean floors, and basins) and short-term events (e.g., volcanic eruptions, seismic waves, and earthquakes) on the surface.
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Describe characteristics common to living things, including growth and development, reproduction, cellular organization, use of energy, exchange of gases, and response to the environment.
Identifying unicellular organisms, including bacteria and protists, by their methods of locomotion, reproduction, ingestion, excretion, and effects on other organisms
The student demonstrates an understanding of the theories regarding the origin and evolution of the universe by comparing and contrasting characteristics of planets and stars. (i.e., light reflecting, light emitting, orbiting, orbited, composition.)
The student demonstrates an understanding of motions, forces, their characteristics, relationships, and effects by illustrating that unbalanced forces will cause an object to accelerate.
Lesson Plan Motion - BundleGrade 7
Properties of Matter: Distinguish among solvent, solute, and solution
Identify major differences between plants and animals, including internal structures, external structures, methods of locomotion, methods of reproduction, and stages of development.
Describing the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
Human Impact
Enduring Understanding: Humans can alter the living and non-living factors within an ecosystem, thereby creating changes to the overall system.
The introduction of competing species, removal of natural habitat, alteration of native landscapes due to urban, industrial and agricultural activities, over-harvesting of species, alteration of waterways and removal of natural predators, etc., are actions that have a lasting impact on ecosystems. (Level: Essential)
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
The student demonstrates an understanding of how energy can be transformed, transferred, and conserved by explaining that energy (i.e., heat, light, chemical, electrical, mechanical) can change form.
Earth's Processes and Systems: Understand the processes acting on the Earth and their interaction with the Earth systems.
Relate plate boundary movements to their resulting landforms, including: Mountains; faults; rift valleys; trenches; volcanoes.
Structure and Properties: Describe and map climates of major Earth regions