Utah 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.
Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Physical Sciences
7.1.1 Carry out an investigation which provides evidence that a change in an object's motion is dependent on the mass of the object and the sum of the forces acting on it. Various experimental designs should be evaluated to determine how well the investigation measures an object's motion.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Why do you lurch forward when a bus stops?, Why does a heavier cart hit harder?)
7.1.2 Apply Newton's Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects in a system.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Why does a heavier cart hit harder?, Can you design a crumple zone?)
Earth and Space Sciences
7.2.1 Develop a model of the rock cycle to describe the relationship between energy flow and matter cycling that create igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
Lessons: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam (How did rain carve the islands of Hạ Long Bay?, Why do builders in Vietnam trust bamboo?, How can a roof survive a typhoon?)
Practice: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook · Grade 4 Rocks and Minerals
7.2.2 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
Lessons: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam (How did rain carve the islands of Hạ Long Bay?, Why do builders in Vietnam trust bamboo?, How can a roof survive a typhoon?)
Practice: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook
Life Sciences
7.3.1 Plan and carry out an investigation that provides evidence that the basic structures of living things are cells.
Lessons: Cells: The Smallest Living Things (How big is a cell?)
7.3.2 Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell in living systems and the way parts of cells contribute to cell 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)
7.4.1 Develop and use a model to explain the effects that different types of reproduction have on 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
7.4.3 Develop and use a model to describe why genetic mutations may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.
Lessons: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares (What happens when a gene changes?)
Practice: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares workbook
7.4.4 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the technologies that have changed the way humans affect the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. Analyze data from tests or simulations to determine the best solution to achieve success in cultivating selected desired 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
7.5.1 Construct an explanation that describes how the genetic variation of traits in a population can affect some individuals' probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. Over time, specific traits may increase or decrease in populations.
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
7.5.2 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, under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
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
7.5.3 Construct explanations that describe the patterns of body structure similarities and differences within modern organisms and between ancient and modern organisms to infer possible 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
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