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Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.B.3.1.1

Grade 07 Science - EC: S7.B.3.1.1

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. What is a predator?

  2. What is prey?

  3. Name one predator and one of its prey.

  4. List three types of symbiotic relationships.
  1. Give one example of how organisms are related within each type of the following relationships:
    • Parasitic symbolic
    • Commensalism
    • Mutualism
  1. Shana said that a bunny is a predator and a marigold plant is its prey.  Is she correct?  Explain your reasoning.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. A predator is an animal that hunts another animal for food.

  2. Prey is an organism and eaten by an animal.

  3. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
    • Lion and zebra
    • Duck and frog
    • Shark and squid
    • Bear and fish
    • Wolf and deer
    • Fox and rabbit

  4. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
    • Parasitism
    • Commensalism
    • Mutualism
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
    • Parasitism occurs when two organisms live together.  One organism, the parasite, benefits.  The other organism is harmed in this type of relationship.
      1. Tapeworms in a living host
      2. Fleas on a living host
    • Commensalism occurs when two organisms live together.  One organism benefits.  The other organism is not harmed, but it does not benefit either.
      1. Barnacles living on a whale
      2. Remora fish attaches itself to a whale and eats leftover food particles
    • Mutualism occurs when two organisms live together.  Both organisms benefit through this type of relationship.
      1. Oxpeckers eat parasites off of rhinos or zebras
      2. Bees help to pollenate flowers
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
    • Shana is correct.
    • Generally the term prey is used to refer to animals.
    • Plants can be considered prey when they are eaten by a herbivore.
    • A herbivore must look, or “hunt”, for food the same way an omnivore or carnivore would.
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