Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.B.3.1.1
Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.B.3.1.1
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
- What is a predator?
- What is prey?
- Name one predator and one of its prey.
- List three types of symbiotic relationships.
- Give one example of how organisms are related within each type of the following relationships:
- Parasitic symbolic
- Commensalism
- Mutualism
- Shana said that a bunny is a predator and a marigold plant is its prey. Is she correct? Explain your reasoning.
Answer Key/Rubric
- A predator is an animal that hunts another animal for food.
- Prey is an organism and eaten by an animal.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Lion and zebra
- Duck and frog
- Shark and squid
- Bear and fish
- Wolf and deer
- Fox and rabbit
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Parasitism
- Commensalism
- Mutualism
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Parasitism occurs when two organisms live together. One organism, the parasite, benefits. The other organism is harmed in this type of relationship.
- Tapeworms in a living host
- Fleas on a living host
- Commensalism occurs when two organisms live together. One organism benefits. The other organism is not harmed, but it does not benefit either.
- Barnacles living on a whale
- Remora fish attaches itself to a whale and eats leftover food particles
- Mutualism occurs when two organisms live together. Both organisms benefit through this type of relationship.
- Oxpeckers eat parasites off of rhinos or zebras
- Bees help to pollenate flowers
- Parasitism occurs when two organisms live together. One organism, the parasite, benefits. The other organism is harmed in this type of relationship.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Shana is correct.
- Generally the term prey is used to refer to animals.
- Plants can be considered prey when they are eaten by a herbivore.
- A herbivore must look, or “hunt”, for food the same way an omnivore or carnivore would.
