7th Grade Science Syllabus 2023-2024
Mrs. Rochelle Little
rllittle@greenville.k12.sc.us
355-8660
Objectives:
Develop and practice scientific inquiry skills.
Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and complex extended molecules.
Use evidence to support a claim that energy is transferred between objects.
Use the information to make sense of and evaluate how synthetic materials are made from natural resources and how society has been influenced by these materials.
Analyze and interpret data as evidence that organisms and populations of organisms are dependent on their environmental resources.
Explain with evidence how matter and energy cycle in an ecosystem and describe the interaction of organisms to obtain food to survive and grow.
Construct an argument and evaluate solutions to how biodiversity can impact ecosystems.
Explain how human use of Earth’s resources due to geoscience processes has impacted global temperatures and systems.
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Expectations:
Bring to Class Everyday: ID badge, personal supplies, earbuds/headphones, and charged Chromebook
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Absent? Your child’s responsible for finding out what was missed during an absence. Please have your child ask/email me in advance of or directly following their absence so that work can be completed in a timely manner. Also, students can check Google Classroom for what was missed. Your child will have 5 days to make up the missed work. Please send doctor excuses, parent excuses, and early dismissal notes to our attendance clerk, Logan Impson (limpson@greenville.k12.sc.us; 355-6792).
Late Work Policy: Here
Assessment Retake Policy: Here
Extra Credit: Every year I have students and parents ask for extra credit assignments or ways to pull up a grade. I will only consider extra credit assignments for students who have completed all of the original work that was assigned and who have consistently attended and participated in class.
Parents, please review the entire student handbook with your child.
Grading:
Minor Grades (50%): quizzes, classwork, and digital interactive notebook
Major Grades (50%): tests and projects
Labs may be put into minor or major assignments depending on the complexity of the work required.
Grading Scale
90 – 100 A
80 - 89 B
70 – 79 C
60 – 69 D
Below 60 F
Topic Timeline
1st Quarter
Rules, Procedures, and School Information
Lab Safety and Procedures
Matter and Its Interactions
States of Matter
Composition of molecules
Properties of molecules through chemical reactions
Synthetic material and natural resources
Conservation of mass, energy, and atoms in chemical reactions
3rd Quarter
Ecosystem Dynamics
Effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem
Interactions of organisms across multiple ecosystems
The flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem
How changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
Design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
2nd Quarter
Energy
Transfer of energy in chemical reactions
Kinetic and potential energy
Interpret and analyze the relationships of energy from object to object
From Molecules to Organisms
Cellular Life Processes
Energy transfer from food to organisms
4th Quarter
Earth & Human Activity
Explain how uneven distributions of resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.
Design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Analyze how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
Clarify evidence of the factors that have impacted global temperatures over the past century.