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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Know:
S8.A.1.3.2 -- Essential
Use evidence,
observations, or
explanations to make
inferences about change
in systems over time
(e.g., carrying capacity,
succession, population
dynamics, loss of mass
in chemical reactions,
indicator fossils in
geologic time scale) and
the variables affecting
these changes.
S8.A.1.3.3 -- Essential
Examine systems
changing over time,
identifying the possible
variables causing this
change, and drawing
inferences about how
these variables affect
this change.
S8.A.1.3.4 -- Essential
Given a scenario,
explain how a
dynamically changing
environment provides
for the sustainability of
living systems.
Grade(s):
Understand:
Many components
living and nonliving
interact to maintain
balance in an ecosystem.
Do:
3.1.7.A1. -- Essential
COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE Describe the similarities and differences of physical
characteristics in diverse organisms.
3.1.7.A2. -- Essential
ENERGY FLOW - Describes how organisms obtain
and use energy throughout their lives.
3.1.7.A8. -- Essential
UNIFYING THEMES - MODELS Apply the
appropriate models to show interactions among
organisms in an environment.
4.1.7.C.a -- Essential
Explain the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
4.1.7.C.b -- Important
Compare and contrast the flow of energy between
organisms in different habitats.
4.5.7.B.b -- Important
Identify introduced species that are classified as pests
in their new environments.
4.1.7.A.b -- Essential
Compare and contrast different biomes and their
characteristics.
S8.A.3.1.1 -- Essential
Describe a system (e.g.,
watershed, circulatory
system, heating system,
agricultural system) as a
group of related parts
with specific roles that
works together to
achieve an observed
result.
Page 1 of 12
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Know:
Grade(s):
Understand:
Do:
S8.A.3.1.2 -- Essential
Explain the concept of
order in a system (e.g.,
first to lastmanufacturing steps;
trophic levels; simple to
complex-cell, tissue,
organ, organ system).
S8.B.3.1.1 -- Essential
Explain the flow of
energy through an
ecosystem (e.g., food
chains, food webs).
S8.B.3.1.3 -- Essential
Explain relationships
among organisms (e.g.,
producers/consumers,
predator/prey, in an
ecosystem).
S8.B.3.2.1 -- Essential
Use evidence to explain
factors that affect
changes in populations
(e.g., deforestation,
disease, land use, natural
disaster, invasive
species).
S8.B.3.2.2 -- Essential
Use evidence to explain
how diversity affects the
ecological integrity of
natural systems.
S8.B.3.2.3 -- Essential
Describe the response of
organisms to
environmental changes
(e.g., changes in climate,
hibernation, migration,
coloration) and how
those changes affect
survival.
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Know:
Grade(s):
Understand:
Do:
S8.B.3.3.1 -- Essential
Explain how human
activities may affect
local, regional, and
global environments.
S8.B.3.3.2 -- Essential
Explain how renewable
and nonrenewable
resources provide for
human needs (i.e.,
energy, food, water,
clothing, and shelter).
S8.B.3.3.3 -- Essential
Describe how waste
management affects the
environment (e.g.,
recycling, composting,
landfills, incineration,
sewage treatment).
S8.B.3.3.4 -- Essential
Explain the long-term
effects of using
integrated pest
management (e.g.,
herbicides, natural
predators, biogenetics)
on the environment.
3.1.7.A3. -- Important
LIFE CYCLES Explain why the life
cycles of different
organisms have varied
lengths.
4.1.7.A.a -- Essential
Describe the
relationships between
biotic and abiotic
components of an
ecosystem.
4.1.7.A.c -- Essential
Describe symbiotic and
predator/ prey
relationships.
Page 3 of 12
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Know:
Grade(s):
Understand:
Do:
4.1.7.C.a -- Essential
Explain the flow of
energy within an
ecosystem.
4.1.7.C.c -- Essential
Explain the concept of
trophic levels.
4.5.7.D.a -- Important
Explain how biological
diversity relates to the
viability of ecosystems.
3.1.7.A5. -- Important
FORM AND
FUNCTION - Explain
how the cell is the basic
structural and functional
unit of living things.
3.1.7.A6. -- Essential
ORGANIZATION Identify the levels of
organization from cell to
organism.
3.1.8.C1. -- Compact
NATURAL
SELECTION - Explain
how reproductive
success coupled with
advantageous traits over
many generations
contributes to natural
selection.
3.1.7.C2.a -- Compact
ADAPTATION Explain why the
extinction of a species
may occur when the
environment changes.
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Know:
Grade(s):
Understand:
Do:
3.3.7.A2. -- Compact
EARTH'S
RESOURCES/
MATERIALS - Explain
land use in relation to
soil type and
topography.
3.3.7.A5.b -- Compact
WEATHER AND
CLIMATE - Explain the
relationship between the
energy provided by the
sun and the temperature
differences among
water, land and
atmosphere.
4.5.8.D. -- Compact
Use the theory of natural
selection to examine the
causes and consequences
of extinction.
S8.A.1.2.2 -- Compact
Identify environmental
issues and explain their
potential long-term
health effects (e.g.,
pollution, pest controls,
vaccinations).
S8.A.3.1.5 -- Compact
Explain how
components of a natural
and human-made system
play different roles in a
working system.
S8.A.3.2.3 -- Essential
Given a model showing
simple cause and effect
relationships in a natural
system, predict results
that can be used to test
the assumptions in the
model. (e.g.,
photosynthesis, water
cycle, diffusion,
infiltration)
Page 5 of 12
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Know:
Grade(s):
Understand:
Do:
S8.C.2.2.1 -- Compact
Describe the sun as a
major source of energy
that impacts on the
environment.
3.1.7.C1. -- Compact
NATURAL
SELECTION - Describe
how natural selection is
an underlying factor in a
population’s ability to
adapt to changes.
4.1.7.B. -- Compact
Explain biogeochemical
cycles within an
ecosystem. (See Science
and Technology:
3.3.7.A1.)
4.1.7.E.a -- Important
Identify factors that
contribute to change in
natural and human-made
systems.
4.1.7.E.b -- Essential
Explain the processes of
primary and secondary
succession in a given
ecosystem.
4.5.7.D.b -- Compact
Compare and contrast
monoculture with
diverse ecosystems.
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Know:
Grade(s):
Understand:
Do:
S8.D.1.1.3 -- Compact
Identify soil types. (i.e.,
humus, topsoil, subsoil,
loam, loess, and parent
material) and their
characteristics (i.e.,
particle size, porosity,
and permeability) found
in different biomes and
in Pennsylvania, and
explain how they
formed.
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Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Ecology
Subject(s):
Days: 35
Grade(s):
Which standards are students learning in this unit?
S8.A.1.2.4 -- Important
Explain society's standard of living in terms of technological advancements and their impact on agriculture. (e.g.,
transportation, processing, production, storage)
S8.A.1.3.2 -- Essential
Use evidence, observations, or explanations to make inferences about change in systems over time (e.g., carrying
capacity, succession, population dynamics, loss of mass in chemical reactions, indicator fossils in geologic time scale)
and the variables affecting these changes.
S8.A.1.3.3 -- Essential
Examine systems changing over time, identifying the possible variables causing this change, and drawing inferences
about how these variables affect this change.
S8.A.1.3.4 -- Essential
Given a scenario, explain how a dynamically changing environment provides for the sustainability of living systems.
S8.A.3.1.1 -- Essential
Describe a system (e.g., watershed, circulatory system, heating system, agricultural system) as a group of related parts
with specific roles that works together to achieve an observed result.
S8.A.3.1.2 -- Essential
Explain the concept of order in a system (e.g., first to last-manufacturing steps; trophic levels; simple to complex-cell,
tissue, organ, organ system).
S8.A.3.1.3 -- Unranked
Distinguish between system inputs, system processes, system outputs, and feedback (e.g., physical, ecological,
biological, informational).
S8.A.3.1.4 -- Essential
Distinguish between open loop (e.g., energy flow, food web, open-switch) and closed loop (e.g., materials in the
nitrogen and carbon cycles, closed-switch) systems.
S8.A.3.2.1 -- Essential
Describe how scientists use models to explore relationships in natural systems (e.g., an ecosystem, river system, or the
solar system).
S8.A.3.2.3 -- Essential
Given a model showing simple cause and effect relationships in a natural system, predict results that can be used to test
the assumptions in the model. (e.g., photosynthesis, water cycle, diffusion, infiltration)
S8.A.3.3.2 -- Essential
Describe repeating structure patterns in nature(e.g., veins in a leaf, tree rings, , crystals, water waves) or periodic
patterns (e.g., daily, monthly, annually).
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Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Ecology
Subject(s):
Days: 35
Grade(s):
S8.B.3.1.1 -- Essential
Explain the flow of energy through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs).
S8.B.3.1.3 -- Essential
Explain relationships among organisms (e.g., producers/consumers, predator/prey, in an ecosystem).
S8.B.3.2.1 -- Essential
Use evidence to explain factors that affect changes in populations (e.g., deforestation, disease, land use, natural disaster,
invasive species).
S8.B.3.2.2 -- Essential
Use evidence to explain how diversity affects the ecological integrity of natural systems.
S8.B.3.2.3 -- Essential
Describe the response of organisms to environmental changes (e.g., changes in climate, hibernation, migration,
coloration) and how those changes affect survival.
S8.B.3.3.1 -- Essential
Explain how human activities may affect local, regional, and global environments.
S8.B.3.3.2 -- Essential
Explain how renewable and nonrenewable resources provide for human needs (i.e., energy, food, water, clothing, and
shelter).
S8.B.3.3.3 -- Essential
Describe how waste management affects the environment (e.g., recycling, composting, landfills, incineration, sewage
treatment).
S8.B.3.3.4 -- Essential
Explain the long-term effects of using integrated pest management (e.g., herbicides, natural predators, biogenetics) on
the environment.
S8.D.1.2.1 -- Compact
Describe a product's transformation process from production to consumption (e.g., prospecting, propagating, growing,
maintaining, adapting, treating, converting, distributing, disposing) and explain the process's potential impacts on
Earth's resources.
S8.D.1.2.2 -- Compact
Describe potential impacts of human-made processes (e.g., manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, mining on Earth's
resources, both nonliving (i.e., air, water, or earth materials) and living (i.e., plants and animals).
3.1.7.A1. -- Essential
COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE - Describe the similarities and differences of physical characteristics in
diverse organisms.
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Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Ecology
Subject(s):
Days: 35
Grade(s):
3.1.7.A2. -- Essential
ENERGY FLOW - Describes how organisms obtain and use energy throughout their lives.
3.1.7.A3. -- Important
LIFE CYCLES - Explain why the life cycles of different organisms have varied lengths.
3.1.7.A8. -- Essential
UNIFYING THEMES - MODELS Apply the appropriate models to show interactions among organisms in an
environment.
4.1.7.A.a -- Essential
Describe the relationships between biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem.
4.1.7.A.c -- Essential
Describe symbiotic and predator/ prey relationships.
4.1.7.C.a -- Essential
Explain the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
4.1.7.C.b -- Important
Compare and contrast the flow of energy between organisms in different habitats.
4.1.7.C.c -- Essential
Explain the concept of trophic levels.
4.5.7.D.a -- Important
Explain how biological diversity relates to the viability of ecosystems.
4.5.7.D.c -- Important
Explain how biological diversity relates to the ability of an ecosystem to adapt to change.
3.1.7.A5. -- Important
FORM AND FUNCTION - Explain how the cell is the basic structural and functional unit of living things.
3.1.7.A6. -- Essential
ORGANIZATION - Identify the levels of organization from cell to organism.
3.1.8.C1. -- Compact
NATURAL SELECTION - Explain how reproductive success coupled with advantageous traits over many generations
contributes to natural selection.
3.1.7.C2.a -- Compact
ADAPTATION - Explain why the extinction of a species may occur when the environment changes.
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Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Ecology
Subject(s):
Days: 35
Grade(s):
3.3.7.A2. -- Compact
EARTH'S RESOURCES/MATERIALS - Explain land use in relation to soil type and topography.
3.3.7.A5.b -- Compact
WEATHER AND CLIMATE - Explain the relationship between the energy provided by the sun and the temperature
differences among water, land and atmosphere.
4.5.7.B.b -- Important
Identify introduced species that are classified as pests in their new environments.
4.5.8.D. -- Compact
Use the theory of natural selection to examine the causes and consequences of extinction.
S8.A.1.2.2 -- Compact
Identify environmental issues and explain their potential long-term health effects (e.g., pollution, pest controls,
vaccinations).
S8.A.3.1.5 -- Compact
Explain how components of a natural and human-made system play different roles in a working system.
S8.A.3.2.3 -- Essential
Given a model showing simple cause and effect relationships in a natural system, predict results that can be used to test
the assumptions in the model. (e.g., photosynthesis, water cycle, diffusion, infiltration)
S8.C.2.2.1 -- Compact
Describe the sun as a major source of energy that impacts on the environment.
3.1.7.C1. -- Compact
NATURAL SELECTION - Describe how natural selection is an underlying factor in a population’s ability to adapt to
changes.
4.1.7.A.b -- Essential
Compare and contrast different biomes and their characteristics.
4.1.7.B. -- Compact
Explain biogeochemical cycles within an ecosystem. (See Science and Technology: 3.3.7.A1.)
4.1.7.E.a -- Important
Identify factors that contribute to change in natural and human-made systems.
4.1.7.E.b -- Essential
Explain the processes of primary and secondary succession in a given ecosystem.
4.5.7.D.b -- Compact
Compare and contrast monoculture with diverse ecosystems.
Page 11 of 12
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Ecology
Subject(s):
Days: 35
Grade(s):
S8.D.1.1.3 -- Compact
Identify soil types. (i.e., humus, topsoil, subsoil, loam, loess, and parent material) and their characteristics (i.e., particle
size, porosity, and permeability) found in different biomes and in Pennsylvania, and explain how they formed.
Page 12 of 12
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning: Many components living and nonliving interact to maintain balance in an ecosystem.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How do nonliving and living components of
environment interact to keep an ecosystem balanced?
Concept:
Animals and Their Environment
S8.A.3.1.2, S8.B.3.1.1, S8.B.3.3.2, S8.B.3.3.1, 4.1.7.A.a
Concept:
Concept:
Levels of Organization
Populations
S8.A.3.1.1, S8.B.3.1.3, 4.5.7.D.a
S8.A.1.3.2, S8.A.1.3.3, S8.B.3.2.1, S8.B.3.2.2, S8.B.3.2.3,
4.5.8.D.
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What needs are met by an organism's
environment? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What are the levels of organization within an
ecosystem? (A)
What are the tow parts of an orgnaism's habitat
with which it interacts? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How do ecologists determine that size of a
population? (A)
What causes populations to change in size?
(A)
What factors limit population growth? (A)
Vocabulary:
organism, habitat, biotic factor, abiotic factor
Vocabulary:
ecosystem, popluation, species, community
Vocabulary:
estimate, birth rate, death rate, immigration,
emigration, population density, limiting factor,
carrying capactiy
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Topic:
Ecology
Days: 35
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Interactions Among Living Things
Changes in Communities
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
4.5.7.B.b, 3.1.7.A8. , 3.1.7.A1., 4.5.7.D.b, 3.1.8.C1., 4.5.7.D.a,
4.5.7.D.c, S8.D.1.2.2, S8.D.1.2.1, S8.A.3.3.2, 4.1.7.E.b,
S8.A.3.2.3, S8.A.3.2.1, S8.A.3.1.4, S8.A.3.1.3, 4.1.7.C.b,
4.1.7.A.c, 3.1.7.A3., S8.B.3.3.1
4.1.7.E.a, 3.1.7.C2.a, S8.B.3.3.4, S8.B.3.3.3
4.1.7.C.a, 3.1.7.A2., 4.1.7.B., 4.1.7.C.c
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How do animals adapt to help survive? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How do primary and secondary successions
differ? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What energy roles do organism play in an
ecosystem? (A)
What are the major ways in which organism's in
an ecosytem interact? (A)
What effect do invasive species have on an
environment? (A)
What are the three types of symbiotic
relationships? (A)
What effect does the reintroduction of a species
have an a community? (A)
How does energy move through an ecosystem?
(A)
How much energy is available at each energy
level? (A)
Vocabulary:
natural selection, adaptation, niche, predator,
prey, predation, symbiosis, mutalism,
commensalism, parasitism, parasite, host
Vocabulary:
sucession, primary succession, pioneer species,
secondary succession, invasive species,
reintroduction
Vocabulary:
producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore,
ominivore, scavenger, decomposer, food chain,
food web, energy pyramid
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Biomes/ Aquatic Ecosystems
4.1.7.A.b
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What are the six major biomes found on Earth?
(A)
What are the factors which determine the type
of biome found in an area? (A)
What do freshwater and marine ecosystems
include? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
biome, canopy, understory, desert, grassland,
savanna, deciduous tree, coniferous tree, tundra,
permafrost, estuary, intertidal zone, neritic zone
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
Attached Document(s):
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Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Vocab Report for Topic:
Ecology
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Days: 35
Grade(s):
Concept: Animals and Their Environment
organism habitat biotic factor abiotic factor -
Concept: Levels of Organization
ecosystem popluation species community -
Concept: Populations
estimate birth rate death rate immigration emigration population density limiting factor carrying capactiy -
Concept: Interactions Among Living Things
natural selection adaptation niche predator prey predation symbiosis mutalism commensalism parasitism parasite host -
Concept: Changes in Communities
sucession primary succession pioneer species secondary succession -
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Susquenita Curriculum
Course: Science Grade 7
Curriculum:
Vocab Report for Topic:
Ecology
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: March 21, 2014 ET
Days: 35
Grade(s):
invasive species reintroduction -
Concept: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
producer consumer herbivore carnivore ominivore scavenger decomposer food chain food web energy pyramid -
Concept: Biomes/ Aquatic Ecosystems
biome canopy understory desert grassland savanna deciduous tree coniferous tree tundra permafrost estuary intertidal zone neritic zone -
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