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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Big Idea 1: The
Practice of Science
4 weeks
Essential Question(s)
What is a scientific
inquiry?
Benchmark
Code
SC.7.N.1.1
What are the results of
scientific
investigations?
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Define a problem from the seventh grade
curriculum, use appropriate reference
materials to support scientific
understanding, plan and carry out scientific
investigation of various types, such as
systematic observations or experiments,
identify variables, collect and organize data,
interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics,
analyze information, make predictions, and
defend conclusions.
HIGH
Suggested Resources
Textbook: SE: NOS p. 219
DE: Scientific Method:
How It Works
GEMS: Discovering
Density, Dry Ice
Investigations,
Oobleck, Paper Towel
Testing,
SPICE Module:
SPICE
What the heck is Science
Anyway?
Sharpie and Coke
Lesson, Food preference
activity with Ants,
Termites Directions
Activity
BrainPOP: Scientific
Methods
What is the difference
between accuracy and
precision?
SC.7.N.1.2
Differentiate replication (by others) from
repetition (multiple trials).
MODERATE
Why do scientists use
significant figures?
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
Benchmark
Code
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Suggested Resources
How is scientific inquiry
used in a real-life
scientific investigation?
What are some tools
used by life scientists?
How do independent
and dependent
variables differ?
SC.7.N.1.4
Identify test variables (independent
variables) and outcome variables
(dependent variables) in an experiment.
LOW
SC.7.N.1.5
Describe the methods used in the pursuit of
a scientific explanation as seen in different
fields of science such as biology, geology,
and physics.
MODERATE
How do changes in
variables affect an
experiment’s outcome?
How do changes in
variables affect an
experiments outcome?
Why is evidence
important when
conducting scientific
explanations?
SC.7.N.1.6
Explain that empirical evidence is the
cumulative body of observations of a natural
phenomenon on which scientific
explanations are based.
MODERATE
Why is it important for
scientists to work
together in a science
community?
SC.7.N.1.7
Explain that scientific knowledge is the
result of a great deal of debate and
confirmation within the science community.
MODERATE
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
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Engagement Toolbox:
Teacher Demo (TE: NOS
5)
Textbook: SE: NOS p.2027
May 2011
7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
1 week
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
Big Idea 2: The
Characteristics of
Scientific
Knowledge
How does new evidence
affect previous
knowledge
/outcomes?
Benchmark
Code
SC.7.N.2.1
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Identify an instance from the history of
science in which scientific knowledge has
changed when new evidence or new
interpretations are encountered
LOW
Suggested Resources
Textbook: SE: NOS p.2027
GEMS: Animals in
Action, Discovering
Density, Dry Ice
Investigations, Earth,
Moon, and Stars,
Environmental
Detectives,
Experimenting with
Model Rockets, Global
Warming, Oobleck, Only
One Ocean, Stories in
Stone
Teacher Toolbox:
Teacher Demo (TE NOS
9)
1 week
Big Idea 3: The
Role of Theories,
Laws, Hypotheses,
and Models
How do scientific
theories and scientific
laws compare?
What are the
advantages and
disadvantages of using
scientific models?
2 weeks
Big Idea 15:
Diversity and
Evolution of Living
Things
SC.7.N.3.1
Hypothesis/Theory/Law
Foldable
Textbook: SE: p.4-5
SC.7.N.3.2
How are organisms
classified?
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
Recognize and explain the difference
between theories and laws and give several
examples of scientific theories and the
evidence that supports them.
HIGH
SC.6.L.15.1
Identify the benefits and limitations of the
use of scientific models.
MODERATE
Analyze and describe how and why
organisms are classified according to shared
characteristics with emphasis on the
Linnaean system combined with the concept
of Domains.
HIGH
Page 3
MiniLab: SE: p.5
DI: ELL Presentation
(TE: p.5)
Textbook: SE: p.18-25
DE: The Basics of
Biology: How Living
Things are Classified
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
Benchmark
Code
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Suggested Resources
GEMS: Animals in
Action, Environmental
Detectives, Microscopic
Explorations, Only One
Ocean
Animals in Action,
Environmental
Constructing field guides
and dichotomous keys
3 weeks
Big Idea 14:
Organization and
Development of
Living Things
What does the cell
theory state?
SC.6.L.14.2
What is the hierarchical
organization of an
organism?
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
SC.6.L.14.1
Investigate and explain the components of
the scientific theory of cells (cell theory): all
organisms are composed of cells (singlecelled or multi-cellular), all cells come from
pre-existing cells, and cells are the basic unit
of life.
MODERATE
Textbook: Ch 1 – Ch 3
Living vs. Nonliving
DE: Biology Concepts for
Students: Asexual
Reproduction
Describe and identify patterns in the
hierarchical organization of organisms from
atoms to molecules and cells to tissues to
organs to organ systems to organisms.
LOW
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
What are the main parts
of the cell and how do
they function?
Benchmark
Code
SC.6.L.14.4
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Compare and contrast the structure and
function of major organelles of plant and
animal cells, including cell wall, cell
membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts,
mitochondria, and vacuoles.
MODERATE
Suggested Resources
Microscopes
Lipid layer structure
(surface tension: paper
clips on water and dish
detergent)
Osmosis
Cell Models1
Cell Models2
Cell Models3
Cell Models4
Microscope slides of
living and nonliving
cells, cell foldables,
3-D cell models
How do cells maintain
homeostasis?
SC.6.L.14.3
2 weeks
18: Matter and
Energy
Transformations
How do some cells
make food molecules?
SC.8.L.18.1
How does a cell obtain
energy?
SC.8.L.18.2
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
Recognize and explore how cells of all
organisms undergo similar processes to
maintain homeostasis, including extracting
energy from food, getting rid of waste, and
reproducing.
MODERATE
Describe and investigate the process of
photosynthesis, such as the roles of light,
carbon dioxide, water and chlorophyll;
production of food; release of oxygen.
HIGH
Describe and investigate how cellular
respiration breaks down food to provide
energy and releases carbon dioxide.
HIGH
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Alcoholic yeast
fermentation
Endocytosis vs
Exocytosis
Textbook: Ch 2
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
16: Heredity and
Reproduction
4 weeks
Essential Question(s)
Benchmark
Code
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Suggested Resources
What are the
similarities and
differences of asexual
reproduction and
sexual reproduction?
Textbook: Ch 4 and Ch 5
How do organisms
reproduce asexually?
DE: Sexual Reproduction
How are inherited traits
passed down from
parent to offspring?
Paper plate models:
mitosis and meiosis,
Oreo cookie mitosis
SC.7.L.16.3
Meiosis1
Compare and contrast the general processes
Meiosis2
of sexual reproduction requiring meiosis and
asexual reproduction requiring mitosis.
Asexual reproduction1
MODERATE
Asexual reproduction2
Asexual reproduction3
Asexual reproduction4
Asexual reproduction5
DE: Biology Concepts for
Students: Asexual
Reproduction
How do scientists
change an organism by
changing its DNA?
How does changing the
DNA of an organism
affect an individual,
society, and the
environment?
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
Recognize and explore the impact of
biotechnology (cloning, genetic engineering,
artificial selection) on the individual, society
and the environment.
HIGH
SC.7.L.16.4
Artificial selection in
fruits, vegetables, and
animals
DE: Gregor Mendel's
Rules of Heredity: Using
Punnett Squares
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
Benchmark
Code
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
How can inheritance be
modeled?
Suggested Resources
Sponge Bob Genetics
SC.7.L.16.2
Determine the probabilities for genotype
and phenotype combinations using Punnett
Squares and pedigrees.
MODERATE
What determines the
expression of traits?
DE: Gregor Mendel's
Rules of Heredity: Using
Punnett Squares
SPICE
Super Hero Genetics
Lesson Plan
DE: Biology Concepts for
Students: Asexual
Reproduction
How do dominant and
recessive factors
interact?
DNA structure
SC.7.L.16.1
Understand and explain that every organism
requires a set of instructions that specifies
its traits, that this hereditary information
(DNA) contains genes located in the
chromosomes of each cell, and that heredity
is the passage of these instructions from one
generation to another.
HIGH
3D DNA Model
Strawberry DNA
GEMS: Only One Ocean,
Animals in Action,
Environmental
Detectives, Microscopic
Explorations
PBL: The Case of a
Middle School Rebel
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
Benchmark
Code
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Suggested Resources
SPICE: Treefrog
Monitoring, Cellular
Nation, Sharks! ManEating Monsters…,
Applied Mendelian
Genetics and
Inheritance,
Biodiversity, Who
Cares?, Coastal
Communities, Water
Down Under
3 weeks
Big Idea 15:
Diversity and
Evolution of Living
Things
How do fossils form?
How do scientists date
fossils?
How are fossils
evidence of biological
evolution?
How are adaptations
evidence of natural
selection?
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
SC.7.L.15.1
SC.7.L.15.2
SC.7.L.15.3
Recognize that fossil evidence is consistent
with the scientific theory of evolution that
living things evolved from earlier species.
MODERATE
Textbook: Ch 9 and Ch
11
SPICE
A History of Life on
Earth, Fossils and
Carbon Dating, Extinct
or Extant?
Explore the scientific theory of evolution by
recognizing and explaining ways in which
genetic variation and environmental factors
contribute to evolution by natural selection
and diversity of organisms.
HIGH
Explore the scientific theory of evolution by
relating how the inability of a species to
adapt within a changing environment may
contribute to the extinction of that species.
HIGH
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
3 weeks
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
18: Matter and
Energy
Transformations
Essential Question(s)
Benchmark
Code
What factors may
contribute to the
extinction of a species?
How does the process of
photosynthesis provide
energy for plants and
SC.8.L.18.1
animals?
What are the nonliving
parts of an
environment?
How is the movement of
matter and energy in an
ecosystem modeled?
How do the Laws of
Conservation of Mass
and Energy support the
movement of matter
and energy in the
ecosystem?
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
SC.8.L.18.3
SC.8.L.18.4
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Describe and investigate the process of
photosynthesis, such as the roles of light,
carbon dioxide, water and chlorophyll;
production of food; release of oxygen.
HIGH
Suggested Resources
Textbook: Ch 10, Ch 18 –
Ch 20
SPICE
Food Webs and
Pesticide Use
Construct a scientific model of the carbon
cycle to show how matter and energy are
continuously transferred within and
between organisms and their physical
environment.
HIGH
Cite evidence that living systems follow the
Laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy.
HIGH
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
4 weeks
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
Big Idea 17:
Interdepen-dence
How does matter move
in ecosystems?
Benchmark
Code
SC.7.L.17.1
How does energy move
in ecosystems?
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Explain and illustrate the roles of and
relationships among producers, consumers,
and decomposers in the process of energy
transfer in a food web.
HIGH
How is the movement of
energy in an ecosystem
modeled?
Suggested Resources
Textbook: Ch 18 – Ch 20
DE: Life Science: The
Basics: Food Chains and
Food Webs
GEMS: Only One Ocean,
Animals in Action,
Environmental
Detectives, Mapping, ,
Earthworms
SPICE
The Value of
Biodiversity and the
Trouble with Invasive
Species, Acid Washed
Genes, Amphibian
Malformations
How do the populations
in a community
interact?
SC.7.L.17.2
Compare and contrast the relationships
among organisms such as mutualism,
predation, parasitism, competition, and
commensalism.
MODERATE
SPICE
The Value of
Biodiversity and the
Trouble With Invasive
Species
SPICE
Sharks! Man-Eating
Monsters or Creatures
Necessary for
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
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7th Grade Life Science
ACPS Pacing Guide
Time
(in
weeks)
Big Ideas/
Suggested Unit
Essential Question(s)
What factors affect the
size of a population?
3 weeks
6 weeks
Big Idea 14:
Organization and
Development of
Living Things
Benchmark
Code
SC.7.L.17.3
How do infectious
agents affect health?
What are the
similarities and
differences among
types of infectious
agents that may affect
the human body?
How do body systems
work together to
maintain homeostasis?
How do the cells, tissue,
and organs of the
(digestive, respiratory,
circulatory,
reproductive, excretory,
immune, nervous, and
musculoskeletal
system) work together
as a system?
Textbook: Florida Life iScience by Glencoe
Benchmarks
and Depth of Knowledge
Describe and investigate various limiting
factors in the local ecosystem and their
impact on native populations, including food,
shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism,
predation, and nesting sites.
HIGH
Suggested Resources
Ecosystem, Living on
Earth: Diversity,
Dependence, and
Adaptation
Textbook: Ch 7 and Ch 8
SC.6.L.14.6
Compare and contrast types of infectious
agents that may infect the human body,
including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and
parasites.
MODERATE
Textbook: Ch 12 – Ch 17
SC.6.L.14.5
Identify and investigate the general
functions of the major systems of the human
body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory,
reproductive, excretory, immune, nervous,
and musculoskeletal) and describe ways
these systems interact with each other to
maintain homeostasis.
HIGH
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