Massachusetts 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.
Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework (2016). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Life Sciences
7.MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of periods of abundant and scarce resources on the growth of organisms and the size of populations 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
7.MS-LS2-3 Develop a model to describe that matter and energy are transferred among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem and that both matter and energy are conserved through these processes.
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
Physical Sciences
7.MS-PS3-1 Construct and interpret data and graphs to describe the relationships among kinetic energy, mass, and speed of an object.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (How fast is a toy car really going?, Why does a heavier cart hit harder?) (partly)
7.MS-PS3-3 Apply scientific principles of energy and heat transfer to design, construct, and test a device to minimize or maximize thermal energy transfer.
Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move (Can you keep an ice cube frozen the longest?)
Practice: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move workbook · Hot Stuff: Heat, Temperature and Cooling workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook
7.MS-PS3-4 Conduct an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, how well the type of matter retains or radiates heat, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample.
Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move (Why does food colouring spread faster in hot water?, Can you keep an ice cube frozen the longest?) (partly)
Practice: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move workbook · Hot Stuff: Heat, Temperature and Cooling workbook
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