7th Grade - Science

Redding School District is currently in the process of a Science Adoption to align with the Next Generation Science Standards. 

Natural processes and human activities cause energy to flow and matter to cycle through Earth's systems.

Life Science

Earth & Space Sciences

Physical Science

Engineering, Technology, and applications to Science

Living and nonliving things are made of atoms

Organisms are made of molecules of mostly six different elements.

Earth materials are mostly made of eight different elements.

 

Earth has mineral, energy, and water resources.

The interaction and motions of atoms explain the properties of matter.

 

Thermal energy affects particle motion and physical state.

 

Matter cycles and energy flows in systems of all scales within the Earth system.

Organisms grow and get energy by rearranging atoms in food molecules.

Earth’s cycles of matter are driven by solar energy, Earth’s internal thermal energy, and gravity.

Chemical reactions make new substances and can release or absorb thermal energy.

 

Mass is conserved in physical changes and chemical reactions.

Design Criteria

 

Evaluate Solutions

 

Analyze data

 

Iteratively test and modify

Natural processes and human activities have shaped Earth’s resources and ecosystems.

Matter cycles and energy flows among living and nonliving parts of ecosystems.

 

Resource availability affects organisms and ecosystem populations.

 

Ecosystems have common patterns of organism interactions.

Fossils, rocks, continental shape, and seafloor structures provide evidence of plate motion.

 

Geoscience processes unevenly distribute Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources.

Chemical reactions make new substances.

 

Mass is conserved in physical changes and chemical reactions.

 

Human activities help sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing world.

Biotic and abiotic changes affect ecosystem populations.

 

Design solutions can help maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Geoscience processes change Earth’s surface.

 

Damage from natural hazards can be reduced.

Synthetic materials impact society.

Design criteria

 

Evaluate solutions

 

Analyze data


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