Alabama Grade 7 science standards
The Grade 7 science outcomes we teach, in the standards's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
Alabama Course of Study: Science (2023). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Life Sciences
SC23.7.2 Construct an explanation of how photosynthesis and cellular respiration cycle matter and establish the flow of energy into and out of an organism.
Lessons: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration (Where does a tree's mass come from?, What happens to the food a plant makes?)
Practice: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration workbook
SC23.7.5 Construct an explanation of how the cycling of matter between abiotic and biotic parts of ecosystems demonstrates the flow of energy and the conservation of matter, including the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles.
Lessons: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration (How does energy from the Sun move through a whole ecosystem?)
Practice: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration workbook
SC23.7.6 Analyze and interpret data to predict how environmental conditions, genetic factors, and resource availability will impact the growth of individual organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (What happens to a population when food runs out?)
Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook
SC23.7.8 Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions between and among organisms in different ecosystems.
Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (Are living things competitors, predators or partners?)
Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook
SC23.7.9 Design a solution to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services in a given scenario.
Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (How can we protect an ecosystem's services?) (partly)
Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook
SC23.7.11 Develop and use models to demonstrate how genetic variations between parents and offspring result from differences in inherited genes located on chromosomes.
Lessons: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares (Why do you look like your family, but not exactly?, How can two purple-flowered pea plants have a white-flowered one?, What did Mendel count?)
Practice: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares workbook
SC23.7.13b Construct an explanation from evidence of how genetic variants may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects on the structure and function of an organism.
Lessons: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares (What happens when a gene changes?)
Practice: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares workbook
SC23.7.14 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information on the use of technologies that impact the inheritance and appearance of traits in organisms.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (How fast can people change a species?) (partly)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
SC23.7.17 Ask questions to clarify how natural selection over generations may lead to changes in the frequency of specific traits to enhance survival and reproduction of a population.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (Why do some animals survive and others don't?, What did the Grants find on the Galápagos?, How fast can people change a species?)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
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