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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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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
Science Fair
Important Due Dates:
Worksheet #1 Due Feb 27th
Worksheet #2 Due March 21st
Entire Project Due April 23rd!
Information about the
Scientific Method
Scientific Method Help
Independent vs Dependent Variables
Independent vs Dependent Variables - PowerPoint
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