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FL: Grade 7 Science
This content correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this state's
curriculum standard.
Go to any of the Gizmo names below to see the corresponding Gizmo Details
page.
Content correlation date: October 19, 2007
SC.A: The Nature of Matter
SC.A.1.3: The student understands that all matter has observable, measurable
properties.
SC.A.1.3.1: The student identifies various ways in which substances differ
(e.g., mass, volume, shape, density, texture, and reaction to temperature
and light).
SC.A.1.3.1.1: uses a variety of measurements to describe the physical
properties of matter (for example, volume and mass).
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Determining Density via Water Displacement
SC.A.1.3.2: The student understands the difference between weight and mass.
SC.A.1.3.2.1: understands that weight is the result of gravitational pull on
an object.
Atwood Machine
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Freefall Laboratory
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
SC.A.1.3.3: The student knows that temperature measures the average energy
of motion of the particles that make up the substance.
SC.A.1.3.3.1: knows the difference between heat and temperature.
Calorimetry Lab
Phase Changes
SC.A.1.3.3.2: knows that relative changes of position and motion of atoms in
a solid, liquid, and gas are the result of an increase or decrease in
temperature.
Boyle's Law and Charles' Law
Freezing Point of Salt Water
Phase Changes
Temperature and Particle Motion
SC.A.1.3.4: The student knows that atoms in solids are close together and do
not move around easily; in liquids, atoms tend to move farther apart; in
gas, atoms are quite far apart and move around freely.
SC.A.1.3.4.1: knows the direction of energy flow when a change in the phase
of matter occurs.
Calorimetry Lab
Phase Changes
SC.A.1.3.5: The student knows the difference between a physical change in a
substance (i.e., altering the shape, form, volume, or density) and a
chemical change (i.e., producing new substances with different
characteristics).
SC.A.1.3.5.1: knows that physical changes do not result in new substances.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Freezing Point of Salt Water
SC.A.1.3.5.3: knows chemical and physical changes that occur in nature.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Freezing Point of Salt Water
SC.A.1.3.6: The student knows that equal volumes of different substances may
have different masses.
SC.A.1.3.6.1: determines the volumes of different substances that have equal
masses.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Determining Density via Water Displacement
SC.A.2.3: The student understands the basic principles of atomic theory.
SC.A.2.3.1: The student describes and compares the properties of particles
and waves.
SC.A.2.3.1.1: knows that charged particles and objects will attract or repel
each other.
Coulomb Force (Static)
Pith Ball Lab
SC.A.2.3.1.2: knows the relationship between frequency and wavelength (the
greater the frequency of the wave, the smaller the wavelength of the wave).
Photoelectric Effect
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
SC.A.2.3.2: The student knows the general properties of the atom (a massive
nucleus of neutral neutrons and positive protons surrounded by a cloud of
negative electrons) and accepts that single atoms are not visible.
SC.A.2.3.2.1: understands that protons and neutrons are located in the
nucleus of the atom while electrons exist in areas of probability outside of
the nucleus.
Electron Configuration
Element Builder
Nuclear Decay
SC.A.2.3.2.2: understands that the mass of an atom is concentrated in the
nucleus where the protons and neutrons are located.
Element Builder
Nuclear Decay
SC.A.2.3.2.3: determines the mass number and atomic number of an atom from
the number of protons and neutrons.
Electron Configuration
Element Builder
Nuclear Decay
SC.A.2.3.2.4: understands that most of the atom is empty space.
Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Electron Configuration
Element Builder
Nuclear Decay
SC.B: Energy
SC.B.1.3: The student recognizes that energy may be changed in form with
varying efficiency.
SC.B.1.3.1: The student identifies forms of energy and explains that they
can be measured and compared.
SC.B.1.3.1.1: knows examples of uses of energy in the home and ways to
measure its use.
Household Energy Usage
SC.B.1.3.2: The student knows that energy cannot be created or destroyed,
but only changed from one form to another.
SC.B.1.3.2.1: knows the difference between potential and kinetic energy.
Air Track
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Period of a Pendulum
Potential Energy on Shelves
Roller Coaster Physics
Simple Harmonic Motion
SC.B.1.3.2.2: knows ways to change energy from potential to kinetic.
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Period of a Pendulum
Roller Coaster Physics
Simple Harmonic Motion
SC.B.1.3.3: The student knows the various forms in which energy comes to
Earth from the sun (e.g., visible light, infrared, and microwave).
SC.B.1.3.3.1: knows the characteristics, effects, and common uses of
ultraviolet, visible and infrared light.
Herschel Experiment
SC.B.1.3.4: The student knows that energy conversions are never 100%
efficient (i.e., some energy is transformed to heat and is unavailable for
further useful work).
SC.B.1.3.4.1: knows that useful energy is lost as heat energy in every
energy conversion.
Calorimetry Lab
Cell Energy Cycle
Phase Changes
Photoelectric Effect
SC.C: Force and Motion
SC.C.1.3: The student understands that types of motion may be described,
measured, and predicted.
SC.C.1.3.1: The student knows that the motion of an object can be described
by its position, direction of motion, and speed.
SC.C.1.3.1.1: knows that the motion of an object can be described by its
position, direction of motion, and speed.
Atwood Machine
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Fan Cart Physics
Freefall Laboratory
Roller Coaster Physics
SC.C.1.3.2: The student knows that vibrations in materials set up wave
disturbances that spread away from the source (e.g., sound and earthquake
waves).
SC.C.1.3.2.1: knows factors that influence the amount of damage vibrations
can cause.
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
SC.C.1.3.2.2: knows intensity of some common waves.
Earthquake - Determination of Epicenter
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
SC.C.2.3: The student understands that the types of force that act on an
object and the effect of that force can be described, measured, and
predicted.
SC.C.2.3.1: The student knows that many forces (e.g., gravitational,
electrical, and magnetic) act at a distance (i.e., without contact).
SC.C.2.3.1.4: knows the difference between parallel and series circuits.
Advanced Circuits
Circuits
SC.C.2.3.3: The student knows that if more than one force acts on an object,
then the forces can reinforce or cancel each other, depending on their
direction and magnitude.
SC.C.2.3.3.1: knows that objects in a vacuum accelerate at a constant rate.
Atwood Machine
Freefall Laboratory
Golf Range!
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
SC.C.2.3.3.2: understands that as objects fall to Earth, speed increases
until they reach terminal velocity.
Atwood Machine
Freefall Laboratory
Golf Range!
SC.C.2.3.4: The student knows that simple machines can be used to change the
direction or size of a force.
SC.C.2.3.4.1: understands uses and combinations of simple machines in
complicated machines.
Pulley Lab
Torque and Moment of Inertia
SC.C.2.3.7: The student knows that gravity is a universal force that every
mass exerts on every other mass.
SC.C.2.3.7.1: understands that gravity is a force exerted on a mass that
causes an object to have weight.
Atwood Machine
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Freefall Laboratory
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
SC.C.2.3.7.2: knows that gravity is a force that holds the Solar System
together.
Gravitational Force
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Rotation/Revolution of Venus and Earth
Tides
SC.D: Processes that Shape the Earth
SC.D.1.3: The student recognizes that processes in the lithosphere,
atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere interact to shape the Earth.
SC.D.1.3.1: The student knows that mechanical and chemical activities shape
and reshape the Earth's land surface by eroding rock and soil in some areas
and depositing them in other areas, sometimes in seasonal layers.
SC.D.1.3.1.2: understands the action of ground water to form aquifers,
caverns, and sinkholes.
Porosity
Water Cycle
SC.D.1.3.1.3: knows the ways in which the Earth's surface is eroded and
reshaped (for example, weathering, erosion, deposition).
Rock Cycle
SC.D.1.3.2: The student knows that over the whole Earth, organisms are
growing, dying, and decaying as new organisms are produced by the old ones.
SC.D.1.3.2.1: understands that fossils are used to predict and explain the
similarities and differences of organisms that lived in the past and compare
them with those living today.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
SC.D.1.3.3: The student knows how conditions that exist in one system
influence the conditions that exist in other systems.
SC.D.1.3.3.1: understands that changes on the surface of the Earth affect
living systems.
Food Chain
SC.D.1.3.4: The student knows the ways in which plants and animals reshape
the landscape (e.g., bacteria, fungi, worms, rodents, and other organisms
add organic matter to the soil, increasing soil fertility, encouraging plant
growth, and strengthening resistance to e
SC.D.1.3.4.1: knows the ways in which living things reshape the landscape
(for example, bacteria, fungi, worms, rodents, and other organisms add
organic matter to the soil, increasing soil fertility, encouraging plant
growth, and strengthening resistance to erosion).
Food Chain
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
SC.D.2.3: The student understands the need for protection of the natural
systems on Earth.
SC.D.2.3.1: The student understands that quality of life is relevant to
personal experience.
SC.D.2.3.1.1: knows ways to conserve and recycle resources (for example,
develops and uses a personal action plan to use recyclable materials
whenever possible).
Water Pollution
SC.E: Earth and Space
SC.E.1.3: The student understands the interaction and organization in the
Solar System and the universe and how this affects life on Earth.
SC.E.1.3.1: The student understands the vast size of our Solar System and
the relationship of the planets and their satellites.
SC.E.1.3.1.1: knows the relative sizes of planets.
Solar System Explorer
SC.E.1.3.1.2: understands the distances of the planets and the asteroid belt
from the Sun are vast.
Solar System Explorer
SC.E.1.3.1.3: understands the relationship between the phases of the Moon
and the positions of the Moon, Earth, and Sun as the Moon revolves around
the Earth.
2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Moon Phases
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
SC.E.1.3.1.4: understands the revolution and rotation of the Moon relative
to the Earth, and knows that the same side of the Moon always faces the
Earth.
Moon Phases
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Tides
SC.E.1.3.1.5: understands that the tilt of the Earth on its axis as it
rotates causes seasonal changes.
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
SC.E.1.3.2: The student knows that available data from various satellite
probes show the similarities and differences among planets and their moons
in the Solar System.
SC.E.1.3.2.1: knows characteristics of the inner planets and outer planets.
Rotation/Revolution of Venus and Earth
Solar System Explorer
SC.E.1.3.2.2: knows basic features of the Moon and the moons of other
planets.
Moon Phases
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
SC.E.1.3.4: The student knows that stars appear to be made of similar
chemical elements, although they differ in age, size, temperature, and
distance.
SC.E.1.3.4.1: knows the life cycle of a star.
H-R Diagram
Star Spectra
SC.E.1.3.4.2: knows the process used to determine the age of a star.
H-R Diagram
Star Spectra
SC.F: Processes of Life
SC.F.1.3: The student describes patterns of structure and function in living
things.
SC.F.1.3.6: The student knows that the cells with similar functions have
similar structures, whereas those with different structures have different
functions.
SC.F.1.3.6.1: understands that there are many similarities among the great
diversity of living things.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
SC.F.1.3.7: The student knows that behavior is a response to the environment
and influences growth, development, maintenance, and reproduction.
SC.F.1.3.7.1: determines the behavioral responses of different organisms to
common stimuli (for example, temperature, light, pressure, moisture).
Human Homeostasis
SC.F.2.3: The student understands the process and importance of genetic
diversity.
SC.F.2.3.1: The student knows the patterns and advantages of sexual and
asexual reproduction in plants and animals.
SC.F.2.3.1.1: knows the differences between and advantages of sexual and
asexual reproduction.
Cell Division
SC.F.2.3.1.2: knows common types of asexual reproduction.
Cell Division
SC.G: How Living Things Interact with Their Environment
SC.G.1.3: The student understands the competitive, interdependent, cyclic
nature of living things in the environment.
SC.G.1.3.1: The student knows that viruses depend on other living things.
SC.G.1.3.1.1: knows the unique characteristics of a virus that cause them to
be considered living at some times and nonliving at others.
Virus Life Cycle (Lytic)
SC.G.1.3.1.2: knows ways that viruses depend on other living things.
Virus Life Cycle (Lytic)
SC.G.1.3.1.3: knows that viruses may cause diseases in other living things.
Virus Life Cycle (Lytic)
SC.G.1.3.2: The student knows that biological adaptations include changes in
structures, behaviors, or physiology that enhance reproductive success in a
particular environment.
SC.G.1.3.2.1: knows that biological adaptations include changes in
structures, behaviors, or physiology that enhance reproductive success in a
particular environment.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
SC.G.1.3.4: The student knows that the interactions of organisms with each
other and with the nonliving parts of their environments result in the flow
of energy and the cycling of matter throughout the system.
SC.G.1.3.4.1: understands how the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle, water cycle,
and nitrogen cycle are important for the survival of organisms.
Cell Energy Cycle
Greenhouse Effect
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab
SC.G.1.3.4.2: knows the interrelationships in a local ecosystem.
Food Chain
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
SC.G.1.3.5: The student knows that life is maintained by a continuous input
of energy from the sun and by the recycling of the atoms that make up the
molecules of living organisms.
SC.G.1.3.5.1: understands ways matter is recycled (for example, water cycle,
carbon cycle).
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab
Water Cycle
SC.G.1.3.5.2: knows that life on earth is dependent upon a continuous supply
of energy from the sun.
Food Chain
Photosynthesis Lab
SC.G.1.3.5.3: understands that individual food chains occur within a food
web and that both show the flow of energy.
Food Chain
SC.G.2.3: The student understands the consequences of using limited natural
resources.
SC.G.2.3.2: The student knows that all biotic and abiotic factors are
interrelated and that if one factor is changed or removed, it impacts the
availability of other resources within the system.
SC.G.2.3.2.2: understands the consequences that might result when changes
occur in populations.
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
SC.G.2.3.2.3: understands that changes in one part of the ecosystem will
affect other parts of the ecosystem.
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
SC.G.2.3.4: The student understands that humans are a part of an ecosystem
and their activities may deliberately or inadvertently alter the equilibrium
in ecosystems.
SC.G.2.3.4.1: knows ways that human activities may deliberately or
inadvertently alter the equilibrium in the ecosystem.
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
Water Pollution
