Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.A.3.3.1
Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.A.3.3.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
7th Grade
Course, Subject
Science
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- List 2 patterns that you can observe in nature.
- List 2 human-made patterns.
- Summarize the pattern that occurs during an average star’s lifecycle.
- Marty’s dad just had a pacemaker implanted in his chest to control his irregular heartbeat. Marty argues that his dad’s circulatory system used to be a natural system, but it is now a human-made system because it is controlled by the pacemaker. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your reasoning.
- Do you think a natural or human-made system is more reliable? Give three examples to explain your reasoning.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Water cycle
- Carbon cycle
- Nitrogen cycle
- Star cycle
- Rock cycle
- Body systems (reproductive, digestive, circulatory, etc.)
- Lifecycles (butterfly, frog, human, flowering plant, etc.)
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Railways
- Bus schedules
- Electrical systems
- Metric system
- Binary system
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Stellar nebula
- Main sequence (can remain in this stage for billions of years – produce energy through the fusion of hydrogen into helium)
- Red giant (helium fuses into carbon)
- Planetary nebula
- White dwarf (can remain hot for billions of years)
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- The circulatory system is a natural system.
- The heart is the pump of the circulatory system.
- A pacemaker is a human-made device that helps to regulate the heartbeat.
- If a pacemaker is implanted, you have introduced a human-made component into the circulatory system.
- The pump of the circulatory system is now human-made. The pattern of the circulatory system will continue by force of the human-made component.
- The majority of the pattern of the circulatory system is natural.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Natural systems repeat patterns automatically.
- Natural systems can adapt to fix their problems. This usually does not create a large disruption.
- Human-made systems may be interrupted.
- Sometimes solutions to interruptions are complex. Therefore, pattern may halt for a period of time.
