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What are Scientific Skills?
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Topic 1: What is science?
Topic 2: What are Scientific Skills? Part 4: Measuring
Topic 2: What are Scientific Skills? Part 5: Analyzing Data and Communicating Results
Topic 2: What are Scientific Skills? Part 2: Classifying Data
Topic 2: What are Scientific Skills? Part 6: Making Predictions
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Topic 2: What are Scientific Skills? Part 1: Observing and Comparing
Topic 2: What are Scientific Skills? Part 3: Modeling and Simulating
Topic 3: How do you conduct a scientific investigation?
Topic 4: Lab Safety
Lessons
Welcome
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A: Contract & Supply List
B: Class Rules
C: Setting up a successful science notebook
D: Getting to Know You Activity
Unit 1: The Metric System
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Metric Definitions
Unit 2: Weather & Water
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Chapter 4 : Properties of Matter
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4-1: What are the properties of matter?
4-2: What are the phases of matter?
4-3: How does matter change phase?
4-4: What are physical and chemical changes?
4-5: What is density?
4-6: How is density measured?
Chapter 5 : Heat
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5-1 What is heat?
5-2: What is temperature?
5-3: What is freezing point?
5-4: What is boiling point?
5-5: What is conduction?
5-6: What is convection?
5-7 What is radiation?
5-8 What is specific heat?
5-9 What is thermal expansion?
The Big Idea: Heat
Chapter 6: Air
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6-1 What are the main parts of Earth?
6-2 What is air?
6-3 What are layers of the atmosphere?
6-4 How is Earth's surface heated?
6-5 How does heat move through the atmosphere?
6-6 What is air pressure?
6-7 How is air pressure measured?
6-8 How do winds form?
The Big Idea: How do pressure changes create global winds?
6-9 What causes local winds?
6-10 How is wind measured?
Chapter 7: Weather
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7-1 How does water get into the atmosphere?
7-2 What is humidity?
7-3 How is relative humidity measured?
7-4 What is the dew point?
7-5 How do clouds form?
7-6 What is precipitation?
7-7 What are air masses?
7-8 What is a front?
7-9 How do you use latitude and longitude?
7-10 What causes severe storms?
The Big Idea: How do electrical charges cause lightning?
7-11 How do you read a weather map?
What causes the seasons? A lesson on the Earth's tilt
Scientific Method
Unit 3: Simple & Complex Machines
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Chapter 1: Force
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1-1 What is a force?
1-2 What is gravity?
1-3 How does a spring scale work?
1-4 What is friction?
1-5 How can friction be changed?
Chapter 2: Energy and Force
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2-1 What is energy?
2-2 What are different forms of energy?
2-3 How does energy change form?
2-4 What is work?
2-5 How can work be measured?
2-6 What is power?
Chapter 3: Machines
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3-1 What is a simple machine?
3-2 What is efficiency?
3-3 How does a lever work?
3-4 How do pulleys work?
3-5 What are inclined planes?
3-6 What is a compound machine?
Unit 4: Populations & Ecosystems
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Chapter 13 Ecology
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13-2 What is an ecosystem?
13-1 What is ecology?
8-1 What are living things?
Among the Chimpanzees
Mono Lake
13-3 What are habitats and niches?
13-4 How do living things interact?
13-5 How are populations limited?
13-6 What is succession?
Chapter 12 Climate and Biomes
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12-1 What is climate?
12-2 What factors determine climate?
12-3 What are climate zones?
12-4 What are local climates?
12-5 How does climate affect living things?
12-6 How are organisms adapted to changes of seasons?
12-7 What are biomes?
Chapter 11 Food Chains and Food Webs
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11-1 What are producers?
11-2 What are consumers?
11-3 What are decomposers?
11-4 What are food chains and food webs?
11-5 How does energy flow from one organism to the next?
Chapter 8 Characteristics of Living Things
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8-2 What are the needs of organisms?
8-3 How do organisms use energy?
8-4 How do organisms respond to change?
8-5 Where do organisms come from?
8-6 How do organisms make more of their own kind?
Chapter 14 Relationships
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14-1 What are symbiotic relationships?
14-2 What are adaptations?
14-3 Why is the water cycle important to living things?
14-4 What is the carbon cycle?
14-5 What is the nitrogen cycle?
14-6 What is balance in an ecosystem?
14-7 How do human activities affect the balance of ecosystems?
HW
Researching a Scientist
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Links
Contact
7th Grade
Elements and Atoms
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Where do Elements Come From?
What elements are present in the human body?
Periodic Table Page
Various Forms of Elements
Class Rules
Follow directions
Respect others and yourself
Come prepared
Keep notebook neat and complete
Speak only with permission