Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.B.3.2.3
Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.B.3.2.3
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 3 ways that humans can negatively impact an ecosystem.
- List 3 ways that humans can help preserve an ecosystem.
- Your community is planning to build an airport. Predict 2 ways the construction will affect the ecosystem. Predict 2 ways the newly constructed airport will affect the ecosystem.
- Your city wants to build a new housing development. Write a letter to your city’s mayor to explain at least three ways in which this construction will impact the ecosystem.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Construction
- Litter
- Dumping
- Hunting
- Using natural resources
- Deforestation
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Establishing a national park
- Planting trees
- Picking up litter
- Driving less
- Recycle
- Acceptable responses regarding the construction may include, but are not limited to:
- Destroy habitat
- Kill animals
- Kill plants
- Eliminate food sources
- Disturb organisms in soil
- Disrupt watersheds
Acceptable responses regarding the airport may include, but are not limited to:
- Noise pollution
- Light pollution
- Air pollution
- More trash
- Land pollution from leaked gasoline
- Student will use proper format used in letter writing. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Destroy animal habitat.
- Some animal populations will decrease. This will cause other animal populations to change.
- Kill plants
- Land pollution
- Noise pollution
- Light pollution
