SCIENCE 7-8: Big Picture by Katie Hawley https://padlet.com/tntpsfi2/37ltqlcyi2n9hurd Directions: Write your response to the following question: What is the big picture of the unit you are internalizing? What key skills will students need to demonstrate to be successful on the unit assessment? Once you've written your reflection, read what your colleagues shared to reflect on any vertical alignment across grade-levels. en-us 2024-12-18 18:02:56 UTC 2025-05-20 16:26:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/png/1f9d1-1f3eb.png https://padlet.com/tntpsfi2/37ltqlcyi2n9hurd/wish/3281505803 Students will use mathematical representations of models to analyze waves and their energy transfer.


Vocabulary

-Word Wall

-Real time

-Hands on models will be used to express written definitions.


Direct relationships "cause and effect" primarily discussing amplitude and energy.



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  • LS1-4 - Use an argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.

  • Mastery Connect

  • Review vocabulary

  • Use of charts & hands-on models

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  • The main topics to be carried and emphasized between lessons.

    • Analyze and interpret data to determine similarities and differences in findings.

    • Science knowledge is based upon logical and conceptual connections between evidence and explanations.

    • Analyzing and interpreting data is generally the main area of concern.

    • Incoming 7th grade students generally have had very few experiences analyzing any form of data.

    • Turners Graph of the day.

    • Continual taking and using data in all situations.

    • New york times graphs

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  • Assessment is limited to analysis of the following properties: density, melting point, boiling point, solubility, flammability, and odor

  • Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.

  • Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

  • Mastery at WCMS is measured using Mastery Connect. Each individual standard has multiple assessment questions (at least 10) to determine the individual student Mastery.

  • Assessments are designed to emulate the released items from the KSA assessment. The assessments are also designed in a similar manner with 20% of the questions being DOK 1 level, 20% being DOK 3, and the remaining 60% being DOK 2 level questions. 

  • Each pure substance has characteristic physical and chemical properties (for any bulk quantity under given conditions) that can be used to identify it.

  • Substances react chemically in characteristic ways. In a chemical process, the atoms that make up the original substances are regrouped into different molecules, and these new substances have different properties from those of the reactants.

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