West Virginia Grade 7 science standards

S.7.5 Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the 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)

Practice: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop workbook

S.7.7 Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes 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

S.7.8 Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, 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

S.7.10 Apply Newton's Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.

Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Why does a heavier cart hit harder?, Can you design a crumple zone?)

Practice: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop workbook

S.7.11 Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object's motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.

Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Why do you lurch forward when a bus stops?, Why does a heavier cart hit harder?)

Practice: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop workbook

S.7.15 Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.

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

S.7.19 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience 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

S.7.20 Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.

Lessons: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates (Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?, What do moving plates do, and can a building survive?) (partly)

S.7.21 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

Lessons: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact (How can a town use less and waste less?) (partly)

Practice: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook

S.7.23 Analyze data from tests to determine which characteristics of design can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.

Lessons: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers (Which source should we trust?) (partly) · 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: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook