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Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.A.3.1.2

Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.A.3.1.2

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

7th Grade

Course, Subject

Science

Activities

  1. Outline the steps that must be taken in order to create a shirt from cotton.

  2. List in order, from simplest to most complex, the components that make up an organism.
  1. In a food chain, how can primary producers be compared to carnivores?
  1. When looking at a diagram of a food chain, if the producers are killed because of pollution, how do you think it would affect the other trophic levels? Explain your reasoning.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
    • The cotton must be harvested.
    • It is sent to a factory to be cleaned.
    • The factory will create thread from the cotton.
    • The thread is then woven into cloth.
    • The cloth is cut and sewn to create a shirt.
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:

  1.  Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
    • Producers use energy from the sun to grow.
    • Primary consumers eats the producers.
    • A secondary consumer might eat the primary consumer.
    • A tertiary consumer may eat a secondary consumer.
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
    • The 1st level carnivorous consumers would have to find another food source.  They would have to eat things like cockles. 
    • There would be a shortage of food for the 1st level consumers.  A lot of them would die.
    • This would affect the 2nd level carnivorous consumers because their food supply would also be decreased.
    • The 3rd level carnivorous consumers and top carnivores would also have a decreased food supply.
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