In Grade 7 Life Science, students will focus on the change, cycles, patterns, and relationships in the living world. In addition, the Life Science standards continue to focus on student growth in understanding the nature of science.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by asking questions and defining problems, planning, and carrying out investigations (using SI – International System of Units), interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating data, constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanations, developing and using models, and obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. Students may prepare for individual projects by working within a team to design a project around a shared interest.
Students will investigate and understand that:
- all living things are composed of one or more cells that support life processes, as described by the cell theory.
- there are levels of structural organization in living things.
- there are chemical processes of energy transfer which are important for life.
- biotic and abiotic factors affect an ecosystem.
- populations in a biological community interact and are interdependent.
- adaptations support an organism’s survival in an ecosystem.
- ecosystems, communities, populations, and organisms are dynamic and change over time.
- relationships exist between ecosystem dynamics and human activity.
- organisms reproduce and transmit genetic information to new generations.
- populations of organisms can change over time.