Download I. Course Description Students are expected this year to widen their

Egyptian American International School
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
GRADE 7 LIFE SCIENCE SYLLABUS-2015-2016
I. Course Description
Students are expected this year to widen their scientific knowledge of life and the world
around them through various branches explored through this year’s curriculum; they will widen
their scope on living things, cells, evolution and the many organisms and their classifications.
II. Course Textbook: Holt Science & Technology, Life Science. 2007
III. Course Objectives
A. Students will become familiar with basic definitions and vocabulary used in science.
B. Students will develop an observational look to their surroundings.
C. Students will be able to identify and differentiate between living organisms and
different structures.
D. Demonstrate writing, research, and presentation skills in relation to the subject
material
E. Broaden their personal horizons through group work projects and hand on activities.
F. Learn about Labs and Experiments
G. Students will understand the nature of practical science and the relationship of
research and presentations.
H. Students will identify, analyze and apply knowledge.
IV. Course Requirements
A. Daily warm-up exercises, class activities, lessons, in-class notes and class work.
B. Students will be assessed on a regular basis with weekly quizzes and monthly tests.
C. Students must come prepared to each class with their textbook and binder.
D. Research and presentations.
E. Students are required to present a science fair project applying the scientific way
of presenting a problem and suggesting a solution
V. Course Grading
50% Tests and Quizzes:
This grade is broken down to 25% from quizzes and 25% from tests.
You will have at least one quiz every other week. Both unannounced and announced
quizzes will be given.
20% Class Participation
This grade will come from the following:
- 5% attendance
- 5% binder check
- 5% class performance and involvement
- 5% Daily Warm up
20% Homework:
. The homework grade will be graded on both completion and correctness of given home
works. In order to receive credit, you must turn in assignments on their due date. Late
homework WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR CREDIT. Homework is considered late if not
submitted when the teacher collects it in class!
10% Behavior:
Students will be assessed on their level of following classroom instructions, discipline and
their overall general behavior to the instructor and fellow students.
V.
Course Outline:
Semester One:
Chapter Two: It’s alive!! Or is it?
Section 1: Characteristics of living things
Section 2: The necessities of life
Chapter Three: Cells: The basic units of life
Section 1: The diversity of cells
Section 2: Eukaryotic cells
Section 3: The organization of living things
Chapter Four: The Cell in action
Section 1: Exchange with the environment
Section 2: Cell Energy
Section 3: The Cell Cycle
Chapter Seven: The Evolution of living things:
Section 1: Change over time
Section 2: How does evolution happen?
Section 3: Natural selection in action
Chapter Nine: Classification:
Section 1: Sorting it all out
Section 2: Domains and kingdoms
Chapter Ten: Bacteria and Viruses:
Section 1: Bacteria and archaea
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Section 2: Bacteria’s role in the world
Section 3: Viruses
Chapter Eleven: Protists and Fungi:
Section 1: Protists
Section 2: Kinds of protists
Section 3: Fungi
Semester Two:
Chapter Fourteen: Animals and behavior
Section 1: What is an animal?
Section 2: Animal behavior
Section 3: Social relationships
Chapter Fifteen: Invertebrates:
Section 1: Simple invertebrates
Section 2: Mollusks and annelid worms
Section 3: Arthropods
Section 4: Echinoderms
Chapter Sixteen: Fishes, amphibians and reptiles
Section 1: Fishes; the first vertebrates
Section 2: Amphibians
Section 3: Reptiles
Chapter Seventeen: Birds and mammals
Section 1: Characteristics of Birds
Section 2: Kinds of Birds
Section 3: Characteristics of mammals
Section 4: Placental mammals
Section 5: Monotremes and marsupials
Chapter Eighteen: Interactions of Living things:
Section 1: Everything is connected
Section 2: Living things need energy
Section 3: Types of interactions
Chapter Nineteen: Cycles In nature:
Section 1: The cycles of Matter
Section 2: Ecological succession
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