Tennessee- Science: 7th Grade

Curriculum Standards    Adopted: 2007

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GLE 0707.1: All living things are made of cells that perform functions necessary for life.

GLE 0707.1.1: Make observations and describe the structure and function of organelles found in plant and animal cells.

Cell Structure
 RNA and Protein Synthesis

GLE 0707.1.3: Describe the function of different organ systems and how collectively they enable complex multicellular organisms to survive.

Circulatory System
 Digestive System

GLE 0707.1.4: Illustrate how cell division occurs in sequential stages to maintain the chromosome number of a species.

Cell Division

GLE 0707.1.5: Observe and explain how materials move through simple diffusion.

Osmosis
 Paramecium Homeostasis

GLE 0707.3: Matter and energy flow through the biosphere.

GLE 0707.3.1: Distinguish between the basic features of photosynthesis and respiration.

Cell Energy Cycle
 Plants and Snails

GLE 0707.4: Plants and animals reproduce and transmit hereditary information between generations.

GLE 0707.4.2: Demonstrate an understanding of sexual reproduction in flowering plants.

Pollination: Flower to Fruit

GLE 0707.4.3: Explain the relationship among genes, chromosomes, and inherited traits.

Human Karyotyping
 Mouse Genetics (One Trait)

GLE 0707.4.4: Predict the probable appearance of offspring based on the genetic characteristics of the parents.

Inheritance
 Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
 Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)

GLE 0707.7: Major geologic events that occur over eons or brief moments in time continually shape and reshape the surface of the Earth, resulting in continuous global change.

GLE 0707.7.1: Describe the physical properties of minerals.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
 Mineral Identification

GLE 0707.7.2: Summarize the basic events that occur during the rock cycle.

Rock Cycle

GLE 0707.7.3: Analyze the characteristics of the earth?s layers and the location of the major plates.

Plate Tectonics

GLE 0707.7.4: Explain how earthquakes, mountain building, volcanoes, and sea floor spreading are associated with movements of the earth?s major plates.

Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
 Plate Tectonics

GLE 0707.7.6: Evaluate how human activities affect the earth?s land, oceans, and atmosphere.

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
 Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors

GLE 0707.11: Objects move in ways that can be observed, described, predicted, and measured.

GLE 0707.11.1: Identify six types of simple machines.

Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)
 Levers
 Pulleys
 Wheel and Axle

GLE 0707.11.3: Distinguish between speed and velocity.

Measuring Motion

GLE 0707.11.4: Investigate how Newton?s laws of motion explain an object?s movement.

Force and Fan Carts

GLE 0707.11.5: Compare and contrast the basic parts of a wave.

Ripple Tank

GLE 0707.11.6: Investigate the types and fundamental properties of waves.

Longitudinal Waves
 Ripple Tank

Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020

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