Science for Ohio: Academic Content Standards Alignment for Science--SEVENTH GRADE
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This chart identifies ALL strand areas in the Seventh Grade standards. Areas highlighted in yellow are addressed if all of the inquiries identified below are implemented.
Note: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science (content-oriented) strands. Indicator statements for these three strands are listed below under the heading Ohio Academic Standard.

Dig This! Erosion Investigation

Ohio Academic Standard: Design and build a product or create a solution to a problem given two constraints (e.g., limits of cost and time for design and production or supply of materials and environmental effects).

Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science strands. However, this inquiry strongly addresses the process-oriented strands (Science and Technology, Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Ways of Knowing) and is therefore recommended for seventh grade instruction.

Fall Slumbers

Ohio Academic Standard: Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while others occur rapidly (e.g., forest and pond succession, fires and decomposition).

Ohio Academic Standard: Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while others occur rapidly (e.g., forest and pond succession, fires and decomposition).

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Explain that Earth's capacity to absorb and recycle materials naturally (e.g., smoke, smog and sewage) can change the environmental quality depending on the length of time involved (e.g. global warming).
• Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while others occur rapidly (e.g., forest and pond succession, fires and decomposition).
• Investigate the great diversity among organisms.

Ohio Academic Standard: Investigate the great diversity among organisms.

Ohio Academic Standard: Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while others occur rapidly (e.g., forest and pond succession, fires and decomposition).

The Water Cycle

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Explain the biogeochemical cycles which move materials between the lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere (air).
• Explain that Earth's capacity to absorb and recycle materials naturally (e.g., smoke, smog and sewage) can change the environmental quality depending on the length of time involved (e.g. global warming).
• Describe the water cycle and explain the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and hydrosphere.

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Investigate how organisms or populations may interact with one another through symbiotic relationships and how some species have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other (e.g., predator-prey, parasitism, mutualism and commensalism).
• Explain how the number of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on adequate biotic (living) resources (e.g., plants, animals) and abiotic (non-living) resources (e.g., light, water and soil).
• Explain that photosynthetic cells convert solar energy into chemical energy that is used to carry on life functions or is transferred to consumers and used to carry on their life functions.
• Investigate how matter can change forms but the total amount of matter remains constant.
• Explain how energy can change forms but the total amount of energy remains constant.

Ohio Academic Standard: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science strands. However, this inquiry strongly addresses the process-oriented strands (Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Ways of Knowing) and is therefore recommended for seventh grade instruction.

What's the Matter with My Orange? Center

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while others occur rapidly (e.g., forest and pond succession, fires and decomposition).
• Investigate how matter can change forms but the total amount of matter remains constant.

Ohio Academic Standard: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science strands. However, this inquiry strongly addresses the process-oriented strands (Science and Technology, Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Ways of Knowing) and is therefore recommended for seventh grade instruction.