tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66450004372835895262024-03-18T20:28:35.531-07:00Life Science for DummiesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01809976175107214111noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645000437283589526.post-77771028793539954752014-04-18T09:44:00.002-07:002014-04-18T09:44:40.781-07:00S7L2 A: Invovles trying to see how matter is moved from one organism to the other ,and how it cycles over and over again. Here is an example:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01809976175107214111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645000437283589526.post-88396987207370395052014-04-18T09:34:00.002-07:002014-04-18T09:34:11.375-07:00Ecology<span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their environments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">a. Demonstrate in a food web that matter is transferred from one organism to another and can recycle between organisms and their environments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">b. Explain in a food web that sunlight is the source of energy and that this energy moves from organism to organism.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both individuals and entire species.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually beneficial.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">e. Describe the characteristics of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes (i.e. tropical rain forest, savannah, temperate, desert, taiga, tundra, and mountain) and aquatic communities (i.e. freshwater, estuaries, and marine).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> Well Ecology was the first unit that seventh graders hit it includes food webs and biomes. Some of the biomes we laerned about include the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">tropical rain forest, savannah, temperate, desert, taiga, tundra, and mountains.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="http://lifescience4dummies.blogspot.com/2014/04/httpsdrive.html">Project I did about Biomes</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01809976175107214111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645000437283589526.post-44861718982800007702014-04-17T09:18:00.001-07:002014-04-17T09:18:14.053-07:00<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1DeN8lcwHeaQmZlY2VwYlFIVDA/edit?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1DeN8lcwHeaQmZlY2VwYlFIVDA/edit?usp=sharing</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01809976175107214111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645000437283589526.post-18182580750358651762014-04-17T09:00:00.001-07:002014-04-17T09:00:25.348-07:00Life Science Standards for 7th Grade<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">S7L1. Students will investigate the diversity of living organisms and how they can be compared scientifically.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">a. Demonstrate the process for the development of a dichotomous key.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">b. Classify organisms based on physical characteristics using a dichotomous key of the six kingdom system (archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">S7L2. Students will describe the structure and function of cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">a. Explain that cells take in nutrients in order to grow and divide and to make needed materials.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">b. Relate cell structures (cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts, mitochondria) to basic cell functions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">c. Explain that cells are organized into tissues, tissues into organs, organs into systems, and systems into organisms.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">d. Explain that tissues, organs, and organ systems serve the needs cells have for oxygen, food, and waste removal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">e. Explain the purpose of the major organ systems in the human body (i.e., digestion, respiration, reproduction, circulation, excretion, movement, control, and coordination, and for protection from disease).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">S7L3. Students will recognize how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">a. Explain the role of genes and chromosomes in the process of inheriting a specific trait.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">b. Compare and contrast that organisms reproduce asexually and sexually (bacteria, protists, fungi, plants & animals).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">c. Recognize that selective breeding can produce plants or animals with desired traits.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their environments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">a. Demonstrate in a food web that matter is transferred from one organism to another and can recycle between organisms and their environments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">b. Explain in a food web that sunlight is the source of energy and that this energy moves from organism to organism.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both individuals and entire species.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually beneficial.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">e. Describe the characteristics of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes (i.e. tropical rain forest, savannah, temperate, desert, taiga, tundra, and mountain) and aquatic communities (i.e. freshwater, estuaries, and marine).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">S7L5. Students will examine the evolution of living organisms through inherited characteristics that promote survival of organisms and the survival of successive generations of their offspring.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Georgia Department of Education</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Kathy Cox, State Superintendent of Schools</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">8/29/2006 2:52 PM Page 7 of 8</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">a. Explain that physical characteristics of organisms have changed over successive generations (e.g. Darwin’s finches and peppered moths of Manchester).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">b. Describe ways in which species on earth have evolved due to natural selection.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">c. Trace evidence that the fossil record found in sedimentary rock provides evidence for the long history of changing life forms.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01809976175107214111noreply@blogger.com0