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Link to NCDPI Curriculum Standards

7th grade Essential Standards (make sure to look at 7th - this is a 6-8 document) pgs. 5-8

COURSE OVERVIEW

1st Nine Weeks
Lab Safety
Layers of Earth's Atmosphere
Water Cycle
Air Masses, Air Pressure and Fronts
Clouds, Weather Maps
Heat Transfer in the Atmosphere
Local & Global Winds
Jet Streams
Air Quality
Global warming & The Greenhouse Effect

2nd Nine Weeks
Pollution and Storms
Cells-Tissues-Organs-Organ Systems (Hierarchy)
Single-celled organisms (Protists)
Animal and Plant Cells
Cell organelles
Human Body Systems

3rd Nine Weeks
Human Body Systems continuation
Genes and Chromosomes, Inheritance
Sexual & Asexual Reproduction
Mitosis & Meiosis
Punnett Squares
Forces
Motion: Speed=distance/time

4th Nine Weeks
Graphing motion
Interpreting graphs (Speed, distance, time, position)
Potential & Kinetic energy
Law of Conservation of Energy
Energy Transfers
Work
Simple Machines