MCGARRY SCIENCE:
7th GRADE SCIENCE:
I can's:
Science Practices (ongoing evaluation throughout the year)
- · Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
- · Design and conduct a scientific investigation.
- · Use appropriate mathematic tools and techniques to gather data and information.
- · Analyze and interpret data.
- · Develop descriptions, models, explanations, and predictions.
- · Think critically and logically to connect evidence and explanations.
- · Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
Science in the Natural World (Will have a “P” or “NP” in the gradebook)
- I can describe the skills scientists use.
- I can describe attitudes that help you think scientifically.
- I can explain scientific reasoning.
- I can describe scientific inquiry.
- I can demonstrate how to design and conduct an experiment.
- I can explain scientific theories and laws.
- I can explain why scientist use a standard measurement system.
- I can explain SI Units of Measure.
- I can analyze the math skills and tools scientists use.
- I can interpret the appropriate graph to use in order to display data.
- I can explain why scientists use models.
- I can demonstrate how a model is used.
- I can prepare for a lab investigation using safety skills.
Cell Processes and Energy
- I can identify how living things get energy from the sun.
- I can describe what happens during photosynthesis.
- I can describe what happens during cellular respiration.
- I can describe what happens during fermentation.
- I can describe what an organism gets from his environment.
- I can describe the two parts of an organism’s habitat.
- I can explain how an ecosystem is organized.
- I can describe the energy roles in an ecosystem.
- I can explain how energy moves through an ecosystem.
- I can demonstrate the processes in the water cycle.
- I can explain how carbon and oxygen cycles are related.
- I can describe how nitrogen moves through an ecosystem.
- I can identify the six major biomes.
- I can describe two major aquatic ecosystems.
- I can explain what factors affect species dispersal.
Chemistry
- I can describe the contents of the Periodic Table.
- I can describe the properties of metals.
- I can classify metals.
- I can describe the properties of non-metals.
- I can explain how non-metals form families.
- I can describe what determines an element’s chemistry.
- I can explain the formation of ions.
- I can demonstrate how ionic compounds are written.
- I can explain the properties of ionic compounds.
- I can explain how atoms are held together by covalent bonds.
- I can identify the properties of molecular compounds.
- I can explain how bonded atoms become partially charged.
- I can describe how matter can be changed.
- I can identify a chemical reaction.
- I can describe the information needed for a chemical equation.
- I can demonstrate how mass is conserved during a chemical reaction.
- I can identify three types of chemical reactions.
- I can identify how mixtures are classified.
- I can identify how a solution is formed.
- I can identify how a concentration is changed.
- I can identify factors that affect solubility.
- I can identify the properties of acids and bases.
- I can identify what ions do to acids and bases to form water.
- I can demonstrate the products of neutralization.
Earth Systems
- I can describe a river, lake, and pond system.
- I can explain how water moves underground.
- I can identify how people use groundwater.
- I can describe a wetland.
- I can explain why a wetland is important.
- I can describe surface currents.
- I can describe deep currents.
- I can describe the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere.
- I can explain how water moves through the atmosphere.
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