Minnesota 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.
Minnesota Academic Standards in Science (2019). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Life Sciences
7L.1.2.1.1 Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells, either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
Lessons: Cells: The Smallest Living Things (How big is a cell?)
7L.2.1.1.1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on 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
7L.2.1.1.2 Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (How do fossils show life has changed?) (partly)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
7L.3.1.1.1 Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and describe the way cell parts contribute to the cell’s function.
Lessons: Cells: The Smallest Living Things (How do things get in and out of a cell?, Can you pull DNA out of a strawberry?) (partly)
7L.3.1.1.2 Develop and use a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
Lessons: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration (What happens to the food a plant makes?)
Practice: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration workbook
7L.3.1.1.3 Develop and use a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
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
7L.3.1.1.4 Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.
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
7L.3.2.1.2 Construct an explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
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
7L.3.2.1.3 Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (How do fossils show life has changed?)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
7L.3.2.1.4 Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
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?)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
7L.4.1.2.1 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes in physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (What happens to a population when food runs out?, How can we protect an ecosystem's services?) (partly)
Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook
7L.4.1.2.2 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity or ecosystem services.
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
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