Gizmos for Texas - Science: 7th Grade (Essential Knowledge and Skills (Implemented Fall 2024) adopted 2021)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this state's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

7.1: Scientific and engineering practices. The student, for at least 40% of instructional time, asks questions, identifies problems, and plans and safely conducts classroom, laboratory, and field investigations to answer questions, explain phenomena, or design solutions using appropriate tools and models.

7.1.A: The student is expected to: ask questions and define problems based on observations or information from text, phenomena, models, or investigations;

7.1.B: The student is expected to: use scientific practices to plan and conduct descriptive, comparative, and experimental investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems;

7.1.D: The student is expected to: use appropriate tools such as graduated cylinders, metric rulers, periodic tables, balances, scales, thermometers, temperature probes, laboratory ware, timing devices, pH indicators, hot plates, models, microscopes, slides, life science models, petri dishes, dissecting kits, magnets, spring scales or force sensors, tools that model wave behavior, satellite images, hand lenses, and lab notebooks or journals;

7.1.E: The student is expected to: collect quantitative data using the International System of Units (SI) and qualitative data as evidence;

7.1.G: The student is expected to: develop and use models to represent phenomena, systems, processes, or solutions to engineering problems; and

7.2: Scientific and engineering practices. The student analyzes and interprets data to derive meaning, identify features and patterns, and discover relationships or correlations to develop evidence-based arguments or evaluate designs.

7.2.B: The student is expected to: analyze data by identifying any significant descriptive statistical features, patterns, sources of error, or limitations;

7.2.C: The student is expected to: use mathematical calculations to assess quantitative relationships in data; and

7.2.D: The student is expected to: evaluate experimental and engineering designs.

7.3: Scientific and engineering practices. The student develops evidence-based explanations and communicates findings, conclusions, and proposed solutions.

7.3.A: The student is expected to: develop explanations and propose solutions supported by data and models and consistent with scientific ideas, principles, and theories;

7.3.B: The student is expected to: communicate explanations and solutions individually and collaboratively in a variety of settings and formats; and

7.5: Recurring themes and concepts. The student understands that recurring themes and concepts provide a framework for making connections across disciplines.

7.5.B: The student is expected to: identify and investigate cause-and-effect relationships to explain scientific phenomena or analyze problems;

7.5.E: The student is expected to: analyze and explain how energy flows and matter cycles through systems and how energy and matter are conserved through a variety of systems;

7.5.F: The student is expected to: analyze and explain the complementary relationship between structure and function of objects, organisms, and systems; and

7.5.G: The student is expected to: analyze and explain how factors or conditions impact stability and change in objects, organisms, and systems.

7.6: Matter and energy. The student distinguishes between elements and compounds, classifies changes in matter, and understands the properties of solutions.

7.6.A: The student is expected to: compare and contrast elements and compounds in terms of atoms and molecules, chemical symbols, and chemical formulas;

7.6.C: The student is expected to: distinguish between physical and chemical changes in matter;

7.6.D: The student is expected to: describe aqueous solutions in terms of solute and solvent, concentration, and dilution; and

7.7: Force, motion, and energy. The student describes the cause-and-effect relationship between force and motion.

7.7.A: The student is expected to: calculate average speed using distance and time measurements from investigations;

7.7.B: The student is expected to: distinguish between speed and velocity in linear motion in terms of distance, displacement, and direction;

7.7.C: The student is expected to: measure, record, and interpret an object's motion using distance-time graphs; and

7.7.D: The student is expected to: analyze the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces on the state of motion of an object using Newton's First Law of Motion.

7.8: Force, motion, and energy. The student understands the behavior of thermal energy as it flows into and out of systems.

7.8.A: The student is expected to: investigate methods of thermal energy transfer into and out of systems, including conduction, convection, and radiation;

7.8.B: The student is expected to: investigate how thermal energy moves in a predictable pattern from warmer to cooler until all substances within the system reach thermal equilibrium; and

7.8.C: The student is expected to: explain the relationship between temperature and the kinetic energy of the particles within a substance.

7.9: Earth and space. The student understands the patterns of movement, organization, and characteristics of components of our solar system.

7.9.A: The student is expected to: describe the physical properties, locations, and movements of the Sun, planets, moons, meteors, asteroids, comets, Kuiper belt, and Oort cloud;

7.9.B: The student is expected to: describe how gravity governs motion within Earth’s solar system; and

7.1: Earth and space. The student understands the causes and effects of plate tectonics.

7.10.A: The student is expected to: describe the evidence that supports that Earth has changed over time, including fossil evidence, plate tectonics, and superposition; and

7.10.B: The student is expected to: describe how plate tectonics causes ocean basin formation, earthquakes, mountain building, and volcanic eruptions, including supervolcanoes and hot spots.

7.11: Earth and space. The student understands how human activity can impact the hydrosphere.

7.11.A: The student is expected to: analyze the beneficial and harmful influences of human activity on groundwater and surface water in a watershed; and

7.11.B: The student is expected to: describe human dependence and influence on ocean systems and explain how human activities impact these systems.

7.12: Organisms and environments. The student understands that ecosystems are dependent upon the cycling of matter and the flow of energy.

7.12.A: The student is expected to: diagram the flow of energy within trophic levels and describe how the available energy decreases in successive trophic levels in energy pyramids; and

7.12.B: The student is expected to: describe how ecosystems are sustained by the continuous flow of energy and the recycling of matter and nutrients within the biosphere.

7.13: Organisms and environments. The student knows how systems are organized and function to support the health of an organism and how traits are inherited.

7.13.A: The student is expected to: identify and model the main functions of the systems of the human organism, including the circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, digestive, urinary, reproductive, integumentary, nervous, immune, and endocrine systems;

7.13.B: The student is expected to: describe the hierarchical organization of cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems within plants and animals;

7.13.C: The student is expected to: compare the results of asexual and sexual reproduction of plants and animals in relation to the diversity of offspring and the changes in the population over time; and

7.13.D: The student is expected to: describe and give examples of how natural and artificial selection change the occurrence of traits in a population over generations.

Correlation last revised: 8/10/2026

Texas - Science: 7th Grade

Essential Knowledge and Skills (Implemented Fall 2024) | Adopted: 2021