7th Grade Lab Curriculum Plan

Weeks

Curriculum

Cycle

Lab Name

Dates

 
1st 9 Weeks

Week 1

Science Safety LAB

CYCLE 1A

Don’t Go Blank on Safety!

Aug 11-18

Week 2-5

Big Idea 1 / 2 / 3 Scientific Method

CYCLE 2A

Double Stuffed Inquiry

Aug 28 – Sept 4

Week 6

Review- Big Idea 13- Forces/ Motion

CYCLE 3A

Magnetic Strength Lab

Sept 18- 25

Week 7

Big Idea 11- Simple Machines

 

 

 

Week 8-9

Big Idea 10- Forms of Energy

CYCLE 4A

Light/Prism????

Oct 8-15

 
2nd 9 Weeks

Week 1-2

Big Idea 11- Energy Transformations

CYCLE 5A

Heat???? 

Oct 28-Nov 3

Week 3-4

Review- Big Idea 7- Earth Systems/ Patterns

 

 

 

Week 5-7

Big Idea 6- Earth Structures

CYCLE 6A

Geologic Time Scale

Nov 17- 24

Week 8-9

MIDTERM

 

 

 

 
3rd 9 Weeks

Week 1-3

Big Idea 17- Interdependence

CYCLE 7A

Food Web/ Ecosystem

Jan 6-13

Week 4

Review- Big Idea 18- Matter/ Energy Transformations

 

 

 

Week 5-7

Big Idea 14- Organization/ Development Living Organisms

CYCLE 8A

 

CYCLE 9A

Mitosis/ Meiosis Cellular Reproduction
Human Body

Jan 26- Feb 8.

 

Feb. 22- Mar 1

Week 8-9

Big Idea 16- Heredity

 

 

 

 
4th 9 Weeks

Week 1-2

FCAT TESTING & Review

 

 

Mar 10-19

Week 3-4

Big Idea 16 - Heredity and Reproduction

CYCLE 10A

DNA, Punnett Square/ Meiosis/ Mitosis

Mar 22-26

Week 5-6

Big Idea 15 – Diversity/ Evolution of Living Organisms

CYCLE 11A

Fossil/ Genetic Variation/ Natural Selection

Apr 15-22

Week 7

Review: Big Idea  15 -  Linnaean system

CYCLE 12A

Linnaean Systems

May 4-11

Week 8-9

Final Exam Review/Testing

 

Science Challenge

May 12-14