Grade Level & Subject: 7^th Grade Science		Curriculum Map	Year 2004-2005
Calendar	August	September	October/November
	Fourth Nine Weeks - April - June
Possible Resources	Life Science, Glencoe, 2002
Nine Weeks Focus	Chapter 14 Amphibians and Reptiles (396-429) Chapter 15 Birds and Mammals (430-457) Chapter 16 Animal Behavior (458-483) Use library resources (print) *To temporarily address the problem of focused textbook content, 7^th grade teachers are responsible for teaching 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grade indicators of the Life Science standards during the 7^th grade year. This plan will be revised before the year-end state achievement tests in science are implemented. The indicators are marked by grade level if other than 7th.
Skills/Standards	Earth and Space Sciences Life Sciences 1. Investigate the great variety of body plans and internal structures found in multicellular organisms. 2. Investigate how organisms or populations may interact with one another through symbiotic relationships and how some species have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other (e.g., predator-prey, parasitism, mutualism and commensalism). 3. Explain how the number of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on adequate biotic (living) resources (e.g., plants, animals) and abiotic (non-living) resources (e.g., light, water and soil). 4. Investigate how overpopulation impacts an ecosystem. 5. Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while others occur rapidly (e.g., forest and pond succession, fires and decomposition). 8. Investigate the great diversity among organisms. Physical Sciences Science and Technology Scientific Inquiry 5. Analyze alternative scientific explanations and predictions and recognize that there may be more than one good way to interpret a given set of data. 6. Identify faulty reasoning and statements that go beyond the evidence or misinterpret the evidence. 7. Use graphs, tables and charts to study physical phenomena and infer mathematical relationships between variables (e.g., speed and density). Scientific Ways of Knowing A C A D E M I C C O N T E N T S TA N D A R D S
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