SC.7.01

7th Grade

Course Purpose:

Seventh grade students will apply earth/space science, life science, and physical science principles to precisely define the world they see.

Outcomes and Components:

SC.7.1	Students will use evidence from fossil history and Earth’s structures to explain the accepted geologic time scale.
Pacing Instruct/ Assess	Component Code	Component	Standard(s)
	SC.7.1.1	Design a scaled model of the geologic time scale (era, eon, epoch) to place perspective on large scale time periods.	MS-ESS1-4
	SC.7.1.2	Analyze rock strata to find index fossils which organizes Earth’s history.	MS-ESS1-4
	SC.7.1.3	Define relative dating and Law of Superposition.	MS-ESS1-4

Academic Vocabulary: Analyze, define, design, model

Content Vocabulary: Geologic time scale, era, epoch, extinct, eon, mass extinction, Pangea, rock strata, index fossil, fossil, relative dating, law of superposition, Precambrian time period, absolute dating

Outcomes and Components

Science Curriculum Main
Kindergarten
- SC.K.1
- SC.K.2
- SC.K.3
1st Grade
- SC.1.1
- SC.1.2
- SC.1.3
- SC.1.4
2nd Grade
- SC.2.1
- SC.2.2
- SC.2.3
3rd Grade
- SC.3.1
- SC.3.2
- SC.3.3
4th Grade
- SC.4.1
- SC.4.2
- SC.4.3
5th Grade
- SC.5.1
- SC.5.2
- SC.5.3
- SC.5.4
6th Grade
- SC.6.1
- SC.6.2
- SC.6.3
- SC.6.4
- SC.6.5
- SC.6.6
- SC.6.7
7th Grade
- SC.7.1
- SC.7.2
- SC.7.3
- SC.7.4
- SC.7.5
- SC.7.6
- SC.7.7
- SC.7.8
8th Grade
- SC.8.1
- SC.8.2
- SC.8.3
- SC.8.4
- SC.8.5
- SC.8.6
- SC.8.7
- SC.8.8

Science Curriculum

7th Grade