7th+Grade+Science

draw label color plant and animal cell ||
 * ~ Unit ||~ Start Date (duration) ||~ Essential Questions ||~ Content / Concepts ||~ Skills ||~ Texts ||~ Supporting / Supplementary Materials ||
 * living things ||  ||   || How do we determine if an item is living or nonliving? What are the criteria of living things? ||   || ch 2 its alive or is it || starch lab/ microscope lab ||
 * cells ||  ||   || History of the cell and cell theory. Parts and functions of plant and animal cells. ||   || ch 3 cells the basic units of life || name parts of cells
 * cells ||  ||   || Cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and fermentation ||   || ch 4 the cell in action || osmosis in potatoes ||
 * heredity/classification ||  ||   || Stages of mitosis and meiosis ||   || ch 5 heredity || Punnett square ||
 * heredity/classification ||  ||   || Heredity and Punnett square ||   || ch 6 genes and DNA || Science fair projects ||
 * heredity/classification ||  ||   || Why did we come up with the classification system? What is the classification system? Summary of 6 kingdoms. ||   || ch 7 classification || shape island ||
 * simple organisms/ fungi/ plants ||  ||   || Why are viruses not in a kingdom? Explain how viruses reproduce and diseases caused by viruses. Overview of archaebacteria and eubacteria ||   || ch 10 bacteria and viruses || viewing simple organisms ||
 * simple organisms/ fungi/ plants ||  ||   || characteristics, reproduction, examples of protists and fungi; diseases caused by some ||   || ch 11 protists and fungi || protist mobile ||
 * simple/ fungi/ plants ||  ||   || Vascular and nonvascular plants, seed and seedless varieties of each, monocots and dicots ||   || ch 12 intro to plants || dissect seeds/ germinate and grow a seed to a plant ||
 * animals ||  ||   || Groups of invertebrates and examples of each ||   || ch 15 invertebrates || draw/classify 8 invertebrates ||
 * animals ||  ||   || 5 classes of fish of examples of each, description of amphibians and 3 orders, history of reptiles and 4 remaining orders

description of birds and examples and three sections of mammals ||  || ch 16 fish amphibians and reptiles

ch 17 birds and mammals || body temperature

wild animal report ||