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Curriculum Resources
Use the tabs below to navigate to the NGSSS Big Idea that you would like to cover:
Big Idea 1 - The Practice of Science
| SC.7.N.1.1 |
Define a problem from the seventh grade curriculum, use appropriate
reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry
out scientific investigation of various types, such as systematic
observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize
data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information,
make predictions, and defend conclusions. |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Red
Holt, Reinhart and Winston
pp 18, 42, 46, 16, 49, 52 |
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| SC.7.N.1.2 |
Differentiate replication (by others) from repetition (multiple trials). |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and
Winston pp 18, 42, 46 |
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| SC.7.N.1.3 |
Distinguish between an experiment (which must involve the identification and control of variables) and other forms of scientific investigation and explain that not all scientific knowledge is derived from experimentation. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 16, 49 |
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| SC.7.N.1.4 |
Identify test variables (independent variables) and outcome variables (dependent variables) in an experiment. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 16, 49 |
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| SC.7.N.1.5 |
Describe the methods used in the pursuit of a scientific explanation as seen in different fields of science such as biology, geology, and physics. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 6, 10 |
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| SC.7.N.1.6 |
Explain that empirical evidence is the cumulative body of observations of a natural phenomenon on which scientific explanations are based. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red.Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 18, 42, 46 |
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| SC.7.N.1.7 |
Explain that scientific knowledge is the result of a great deal of debate and confirmation within the science community |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 18, 42, 46, 52 |
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Big Idea 2 - The Characteristics of Scientific Knowledge
| SC.7.N.2.1 |
Identify an instance from the history of science in which scientific knowledge has changed when new evidence or new interpretations are encountered. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 32, 516 |
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Big Idea 3 - The Role of Theories, Laws, Hypotheses, and Models
| SC.7.N.3.1 |
Recognize and explain the difference between theories and laws and give several examples of scientific theories and the evidence that supports them. |
ScienceSaurus. Great Source Education Group Sections 002, 300, 270, 126-128, 182 Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 482-483 |
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| SC.7.N.3.2 |
Identify the benefits and limitations of the use of scientific models. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston p 58, 59 |
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Big Idea 6 - Earth Structures
Content 7
| SC.7.E.6.1 |
Describe the layers of the solid Earth, including the lithosphere, the hot convecting mantle, and the dense metallic liquid and solid cores. |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart
and Winston p 42 |
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| SC.7.E.6.2 |
Identify the patterns within the rock cycle and relate them to surface events (weathering and erosion) and sub-surface events (plate tectonics and mountain building). |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston p 42 |
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| SC.7.E.6.3 |
Identify current methods for measuring the age of Earth and its parts, including the law of superposition and radioactive dating. |
ScienceSaurus. Great
Source Education Group
Sections 195, 197 |
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| SC.7.E.6.4 |
Explain and give examples of how physical evidence supports scientific theories that Earth has evolved over geologic time due to natural processes. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 42, 664 |
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| SC.7.E.6.5 |
Explore the scientific theory of plate tectonics by describing how the movement of Earth's crustal plates causes both slow and rapid changes in Earth's surface, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and mountain building. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 42, 664 |
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| SC.7.E.6.6 |
Identify the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water. |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart
and Winston pp 42, 410, 440 |
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| SC.7.E.6.7 |
Recognize that heat flow and movement of material within Earth causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and creates mountains and ocean basins. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston p 42 |
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Big Idea 10 - Forms of Energy
| SC.7.P.10.1 |
Illustrate that the sun's energy arrives as radiation with a wide range of wavelengths, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, and that white light is made up of a spectrum of many different colors. |
ScienceSaurus . Great
Source Education Group
Sections 308-310 |
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| SC.7.P.10.2 |
Observe and explain that light can be reflected, refracted, and/or
absorbed |
ScienceSaurus . Great
Source Education Group
Section 311 |
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| SC.7.P.10.3 |
Recognize that light waves, sound waves, and other waves move at different speeds in different materials |
ScienceSaurus . Great Source Education Group Sections 306, 310, 312 |
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Big Idea 11 - Energy Transfer and Transformations
| SC.7.P.11.1 |
Recognize that adding heat to or removing heat from a system may result in a temperature change and possibly a change of state. |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart
and Winston pp 90-93, 95 |
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| SC.7.P.11.2 |
Investigate and describe the transformation of energy from one form toanother |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and
Winston pp 628, 336, 338 |
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| SC.7.P.11.3 |
Cite evidence to explain that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another. |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and
Winston pp 336, 338 |
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| SC.7.P.11.4 |
Observe and describe that heat flows in predictable ways, moving from warmer objects to cooler ones until they reach the same temperature. |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart
and Winston pp 414, 315, 317 |
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Big Idea 15 - Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms
| SC.7.L.15.1 |
Recognize that fossil evidence is consistent with the scientific theory of evolution that living things evolved from earlier species. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue . Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapters 21 & 22 |
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| SC.7.L.15.2 |
Explore the scientific theory of evolution by recognizing and explaining ways in which genetic variation and environmental factors contribute to evolution by natural selection and diversity of organisms. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston page 578 |
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| SC.7.L.15.3 |
Explore the scientific theory of evolution by relating how the inability of a species to adapt within a changing environment may contribute to the extinction of that species. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston p 622 |
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Big Idea 16 - Heredity and Reproduction
| SC.7.L.16.1 |
Understand and explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits, that this hereditary information (DNA) contains genes located in the chromosomes of each cell, and that heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston p 578 |
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| SC.7.L.16.2 |
Determine the probabilities for genotype and phenotype combinations using Punnett Squares and pedigrees. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 575-579 |
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| SC.7.L.16.3 |
Compare and contrast the general processes of sexual reproduction requiring meiosis and asexual reproduction requiring mitosis. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston p 586 |
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| SC.7.L.16.4 |
Recognize and explore the impact of biotechnology (cloning, genetic engineering, artificial selection) on the individual, society and the environment. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 438, 442 |
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Big Idea 17 - Interdependence
| SC.7.L.17.1 |
Explain and illustrate the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 12 |
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| SC.7.L.17.2 |
Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 12 |
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| SC.7.L.17.3 |
Describe and investigate various limiting factors in the local ecosystem and their impact on native populations, including food, shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism, predation, and nesting sites. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 12 |
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Selected Review Standards
| Big Idea 1-4 |
| SC.6.N.3.1 |
Recognize and explain that a scientific theory is a well-supported and widely accepted explanation of nature and is not simply a claim posed by an individual. Thus, the use of the term theory in science is very different than how it is used in everyday life. |
ScienceSaurus. Great Source Education Group Section 002 |
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| SC.6.N.3.2 |
Recognize and explain that a scientific law is a description of a specific relationship under given conditions in the natural world. Thus, scientific laws are different from societal laws |
ScienceSaurus. Great Source Education Group Section 002 |
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| SC.6.N.3.3 |
Give several examples of scientific laws. |
ScienceSaurus. Great Source Education Group Sections 002, 300, 270, 126-128, 182 Holt Science & Technology Level Blue. Holt, Reinhart and Winston pp 482-483 |
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| Big Idea 7 - Earth Systems and Patterns |
| SC.6.L.7.2 |
Investigate and apply how the cycling of water between the atmosphere and hydrosphere has an effect on weather patterns and climate. |
Holt Science & Technology
Level Red. Holt, Reinhart
and Winston p 336 |
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| SC.6.L.7.3 |
Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and ocean currents
influence local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, air
pressure, wind direction and speed, and humidity and precipitation. |
ScienceSaurus. Great
Source Education Group
Sections 216-226 |
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| SC.6.L.7.5 |
Explain how energy provided by the sun influences global patterns of atmospheric movement and the temperature differences between air, water, and land. |
ScienceSaurus. Great
Source Education Group
Sections 216-226 |
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| Big Idea 13 - Forces and Changes in Motion |
| SC.6.P.13.1 |
Investigate and describe types of forces including contact forces and forces acting at a distance, such as electrical, magnetic, and gravitational. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 22 |
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| SC.6.P.13.3 |
Investigate and describe that an unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed, or direction of motion, or both. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 22 |
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| Big Idea 14 - Organization and Development of Living Organisms |
| SC.6.L.14.1 |
Describe and identify patterns in the hierarchical organization of organisms from atoms to molecules and cells to tissues to organs to organ systems to organisms. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter |
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| SC.6.L.14.2 |
Investigate and explain the components of the scientific theory of cells (cell theory): all organisms are composed of cells (single-celled or multicellular), all cells come from pre-existing cells, and cells are the basic unit of life. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 3 section 1 |
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| SC.6.L.14.3 |
Recognize and explore how cells of all organisms undergo similar processes to maintain homeostasis, including extracting energy from food, getting rid of waste, and reproducing. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 5 section 1 Sciencesaurus . Great Source Education Group Section 084 |
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| SC.6.L.14.4 |
Compare and contrast the structure and function of major organelles of
plant and animal cells, including cell wall, cell membrane, nucleus,
cytoplasm, chloroplasts, mitochondria, and vacuoles. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 3 |
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| SC.6.L.14.5 |
Identify and investigate the general functions of the major systems of
the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, reproductive,
excretory, immune, nervous, and musculoskeletal) and describe ways
these systems interact with each other to maintain homeostasis. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Unit 3 |
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| Big Idea 14 - Organization and Development of Living Organisms Continued |
| SC.6.L.14.6 |
Compare and contrast types of infectious agents that may infect the human body, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 10 |
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| Big Idea 15 - Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms |
| SC.6.L.15.1 |
Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of Domains. |
ScienceSaurus Great
Source Education Group
Sections 151-162 |
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| Big Idea 18 - Matter and Energy Transformations |
| SC.8.L.18.2 |
Describe and investigate how cellular respiration breaks down food to provide energy and releases carbon dioxide. |
Holt Science & Technology Level Red. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Chapter 4 Section 2 |
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