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Berlin Community School
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Teacher: Grade 7
Month
September
2010
Content
"The ATMOSPHERE"
A.) What is the composition of our present
ATMOSPHERE?
Skills
A.) Explain why temperature and pressure
change with altitude
B.) Describe the layers of the
ATMOSPHERE
Why does pressure change with altitude?
B.) What are the characteristics of each
layer of the ATMOSPHERE?
C)What are the processes of radiation,
conduction and convection?
Assessment
Various demonstrations of air pressure
Transparencies of the Earth's atmospheric
layers
Materials
Glencoe Science series Book I
"The Air Around You"
All supplimentary material to the series
including worksheets, overheads, labs
Worksheets
-Explain what occurs in each layer and
why
C. )Summarize the the processes of
radiation, conduction and convection and
how these relate to the radiation balance
Reviews
Examples of how our local wind patterns
affects water skiing
Wind Vanes
D.)What is the Greenhouse Effect?
E.) How does the atmosphere influence
weather
F.) What causes air pollution?
D. )Explain how the Greenhouse Effect
could relate to global warming
E.) Explain the relationship between air
pressure and wind direction
describe the global and local wind patterns
and their causes
diagrams of breezes
diagrams of clouds
BrainPop quizzes
journal responses
F.) Describe the major types of air
pollution, their causes and their effects on
us and the environment
quizzes
tests with short answer analysis
-Explain how air pollution can be reduced
smartboard
Experiments: Greenhouse Effect
October
2010
"Conserving Resources"
A.)Compare renewable and nonrenewable
resources
A.) What are renewable resources?
What are nonrenewable resources?
B.)How are fossil fuels used and what is
-Identify resources use in everyday living
and identify their source as
renewable/nonrenewable
End of chapter reviews
Field trip to Wind Farm
Glencoe Ecology Book E chapter 4
"Mining Chocolate Chip Cookies" lab
Earth Science Videolab kit
Vocabulary quiz
Energy movie
"What to do with Plastics" lab
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the environmental impact of using this
products?
B.)Observe the effects that mining
materials has on the Earth
C.)What are alternate sources of energy?
C.)Research alternate sources of energy
such as solar power, wind turbines, water
power, nuclear and geothermal power
Assessment
Materials
"Alternative Energies Videolab" activities
Energy movie review questions
Chapter 4 review worksheets and Self
Check questions
Section test
November
2010
Weather
A.) What is weather?
How does solar heating and water vapor
affect weather?
A.) -Discuss formation of air masses,
warm,
cold occluded, and stationary
A - E:
"Launch lab" assessment questions
Directed reading mastery questions
-Demonstrate the water cycle
Glencoe Science series Book I
"The Air Around You"
All supplimentary material to the series
including worksheets, overheads, labs
chapter worksheets
How are clouds formed?
-Compare types of clouds and weather
associated with each type
BrainPop quizzes
B.) How is wind direction measured?
B.) Design and make a wind vane
chapter vocabulary quiz
-Design and make an anemometer
tests with short answer analysis
C.)Identify symbols on a weather map
Self-check questions
-Determine current weather conditions
by reading a station model
Smartboard station maps
How is wind speed calculated?
C.) What information can be found on a
weather map?
How do fronts impact weather patterns?
D.) How are animals adapted to the climate
in their environment?
E.) Why do seasons change?
Animal adaption lab questions
D.) List and describe various adaptations
of common household pets (lizard,
bird, frog, fish, etc.)
Weather map worksheet grade
chapter review questions
What is climate?
How are plants adapted to their
environment?
E.) -Analyze maps to determine
effects that oceans, mountains,and latitude
have on climate
-Explain what causes weather
How are human activities impacting
climatic changes?
December
Life's Structure and Function
-Research human activites that could be
causing climatic changes
A.) Distinguish between living and
A - C:
Glencoe Science Life Structure and
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A.)What are living things like?
What do living things need to survive?
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Skills
nonliving
things
- Compare traits of living and nonliving
things
Assessment
Materials
Various demonstrations of classification
Function Book
Transparencies of the spontaneous
generation
All supplimental material to book,
including worksheets, transparencies, labs
Worksheets
-List five traits of all living things
Reviews
-Determine that livings things need a
place to live as well as raw materials
B.) Where does life come from?
What scientist is credited with disproving
spontaneous generation?
What is biogenesis?
Examples of experiments
B.) Describe three controlled experiments
related to spontaneous generation and
identify scientist related to this research
-Compare and contrast spontaneous
generation nd biogenesis
-Summarize experiments that led to the
theory of biogenesis
-Support a theory of how life on
Earth began
C.) Describe how early scientists classified
organisms
C.)How are organisms grouped?
What is a dichotomous key?
-Describe two word naming system is
used name organisms
-Create bimomial nomenclature for self
-Use dichotomous key to identify
organisms
January
2011
Classification
1. Linnaeus' System
2. Five Kingdoms
A. Define "Life"
.
-Recognize the needs of living things
and explain how they are acquired
A. Why is life so difficult to define?
-Identify the features of living things
A. Graded class activities, labs, and
homework
- Internet research on the spontaneous
generation vs biogenesis controversy
B. Bean seed germination activity
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B. How is the nature of fire similar to the
features of life?
- Determine that living and nonliving
things interact in the environment
C. Card stock drawing of the accidental
discovery of penicillin
C. Why is the organization of matter so
essential to the maintenance life?
- Explain how energy is acquired from the
sun and how it is transferred through
organisms
E. What is Science (Study Guide)
D. Why is the scientific method of problem
solving superior to other methods?
Classification
E. What are the benefits of studying the
general characteristics of groups as
opposed to the specific characteristics of
organisms?
F. How would a scientist go about breaking
the chain of events that lead to the spread
of disease?
February
2011
Assessment
Cells
A.) What are common traits of cells? How
are cells organized?
a. Give examples that show the need for a
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
b. Explain Linnaeus' system of
classification
c. Name the five kingdoms of living
things
d. Identify characteristics and members of
each kingdom
e. List the groups within each kingdom
f. Classify imaginary organisms
g. Classify fingerprints
h. Match scientific names with common
names using Latin roots to help identify
A.) Identify the organization of life (cellstissues-organs-organ systems-organisms)
F. Discovering Scientific Method
a - h. Scientific Naming and Constructing
Scientific Names. Modern Classification
(Study Guide). Scientific Classification
Crossword. Classifying Imaginary
Organisms
A - FQuizzes and Chapter Tests
Features of Life Quiz
Classifying Living Things Quiz
Features of Life / Classification Test
Scientific Method / Metric Measure Test
Teacher made tests
Glencoe Science Life Structure and
Function Book
Demonstrations
- Identify different structures and their
functions
- Distinguish between single-cellular and
multicellular organisms
B.) Define and compare Prokaryotic and
Eukaryotic cells
B.) What are prokaryotic cells? what are
eukarotic cells?
Materials
- Identify how the organelles of Eukaryotic
cells enable them to undergo chemical
processes
Labs
All supplimental material to book,
including worksheets, transparencies, labs
Worksheets
Observation
Open response answers to essential
questions.
Experiment design/presentation
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Materials
C.) Compare and contrast the structures
of plant and animal cells
C.) How are cells viewed? What is the
function of each part of a microscope?
What is a transmittion electron micrscope?
What is the cell theory?
- Identify and define different cell
structures and explain their roles within
cells
- Label the parts of a microscope.
- Demonstrate how to use a microscope to
view slides.
D.) Explain how a virus makes copies of
itself.
March
2011
D.) What is a virus? How do viruses
multiply? How can the spread of a virus be
prevented?
- Identify the benifits of vaccines.
A.)What type of things are made up of
elements?
A.) List the differences among atoms,
elements, molecules and compounds
Finding Protons wksh
How are elements different from S ?
- Explain the relationship between
chemistry and life science
Bill Nye movie "Atoms and Molecules"
target questions
- Discuss how organic compounds are
different from inorganic compounds
Diffusion demonstration and lab questions
Why is water, an inorganic compound,
important for life?
What are the four organic compounds
found in all living thing?
B) Describe the function of a
semipermeable membrane
Glencoe Science Life Structure and
Function Book
All supplimental material to book,
including worksheets, transparencies, labs
Celery Osmosis demonstration and lab
questions
chaper quiz
B.) What is passive transport and how
many types of passive transport exist?
Why are endocytosis and endocycosis
important to cell processes?
C.)How do living things process and use
energy?
How can energy used by all living things
- Explain how the process of diffusion and
osmosis move molecules
- Explain how passive transport and active
transport differ
chapter test
Carrot osmosis lab
Teacher Observations
C.) List the differences between producers
and consumers
- Explain how the process of
photosynthesis and respiration restore and
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be traced back to the sun?
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Skills
Assessment
Materials
release energy
- Describe how cells get energy from
glucose for fermentation
April 2011
"Interactions of Life"
A.) What three things make up the
biosphere?
A. Identify places where life is found on
Earth
A - C:
Chapter vocabulary quiz
Define ecology, population, habitat, and
symbiosis
Chapter test
Why is life on Earth possible?
Glencoe Science Series
Various worksheets
How are biosphere and habitat related?
B. Observe how the environment
influences life
B.) How does weather impact the types of
communities in an ecosystem?
Analyze how limiting factors effect
carrying capicity
C.) Why is competition among organisms a
vital part of every ecosystem?
Interpret a chart to determine birth and
death rates of various countries
How do organisms in an environment
obtain energy for survival?
C. Explain how organisms interact
"Oh Deer" activity
"Extinction"Game
Comparing Biotic Potential lab
Graph information on carrying capacity
Recognize that every organism has a
niche
May 2011
"Embroyology of Chicken"
A.) Brainstorm oviperous animals and
identify the various shaped of thier eggs
A - F:
Daily growth chart
B, C.) Draw and label stages of
developing embryo
Vocabulary quiz
A.) What animals lay eggs?
B.) How are fertilized eggs different from
"store bought" eggs?
C.) What are the major parts of a chicken
and an egg?
D.) How does the shape of the egg
influence the egg's strenght?
E.) How does the mass of an egg change
during development?
Various worksheets
D.) Design a container to best protect the
egg
E.) Determine the mass of an egg at
various stages of development
Egg Drop contest
Analyze debate issues
E.) Research the size of various eggs and
then use a ruler to draw the eggs exactly to
scale from smallest to largest
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F.) What came first, the chicken or egg?
June 2011
"Embroyology of Chicken"
Berlin Community School
Skills
F.) Debate what came first, chicken or
egg
A.) Brainstorm oviperous animals and
identify the various shaped of thier eggs
A.) What animals lay eggs?
B.) How are fertilized eggs different from
"store bought" eggs?
C.) What are the major parts of a chicken
and an egg?
D.) How does the shape of the egg
influence the egg's strenght?
B, C.) Draw and label stages of
developing embryo
Assessment
Materials
A - F:
Daily growth chart
Vocabulary quiz
Various worksheets
Egg Drop contest
Analyze debate issues
D.) Design a container to best protect the
egg
E.) Determine the mass of an egg at
various stages of development
E.) How does the mass of an egg change
during development?
E.) Research the size of various eggs and
then use a ruler to draw the eggs exactly to
scale from smallest to largest
F.) What came first, the chicken or egg?
F.) Debate what came first, chicken or egg
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