GEMS Correlations with the Georgia State Science Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
for Seventh Grade
Life Science
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Strand: Life Science
1. Scientific Inquiry Process
Standard: Uses process skills of observing, classifying, communicating,
measuring, predicting, inferring, identifying, and manipulating variables.
Also uses recording, analyzing, and operationally defining, formulating
models, experimenting, constructing hypotheses and drawing conclusions.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Mystery
Festival, Crime Lab Chemistry, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes,
Microscopic Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry,
Oobleck, Stories in Stone, Vitamin C Testing, Animals in Action, Bubble-ology,
Color Analyzers, Earth, Moon, & Stars, Environmental Detectives,
Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Paper Towel Testing,
Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Discovering Density, Dry
Ice Investigations, Earthworms, Experimenting With Model Rockets, Learning
About Learning, Mapping Fish Habitats, More Than Magnifiers, The Real
Reasons For Seasons, River Cutters, Global Warming, Ocean Currents,
Only One Ocean, Plate Tectonics
2. Safety Skills
Standard: Understands and applies laboratory safety rules and practices.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Mystery
Festival, Crime Lab Chemistry, Hot Water and Warm Homes, Microscopic
Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck,
Stories in Stone, Vitamin C Testing, Animals in Action, Bubble-ology,
Color Analyzers, Earth, Moon, & Stars, Environmental Detectives,
Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Paper Towel Testing,
Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Discovering Density, Dry
Ice Investigations, Earthworms, Experimenting With Model Rockets, Mapping
Fish Habitats, More Than Magnifiers, The Real Reasons For Seasons, River
Cutters, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean, Plate Tectonics
3. Standard International (SI) Measurements (Metric System)
Standard: Defines and identifies standards of measurement.
3.1 Names the prefixes used in the SI system.
3.2 Identifies SI units and symbols for length, volume, mass, density,
time, and temperature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology,
Plate Tectonics, Vitamin C Testing
3.3 Converts measurements among related SI units.
3.4 Uses appropriate tools for determining mass volume, temperature,
density, and length.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Vitamin
C Testing, Bubble-ology, Environmental Detectives, Messages From Space,
Paper Towel Testing, Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Discovering Density,
Dry Ice Investigations, Earthworms, Experimenting With Model Rockets,
More Than Magnifiers, The Real Reasons For Seasons, River Cutters, Global
Warming, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean, Plate Tectonics
4. Reference Skills
Standard: Selects and uses multiple types of print and nonprint
sources for information on science concepts.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Mystery
Festival, Crime Lab Chemistry, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes,
Microscopic Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry,
Oobleck, Stories in Stone, Vitamin C Testing, Animals in Action, Bubble-ology,
Color Analyzers, Earth, Moon, & Stars, Environmental Detectives,
Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Paper Towel Testing,
Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Discovering Density, Dry
Ice Investigations, Earthworms, Experimenting With Model Rockets, Learning
About Learning, Mapping Fish Habitats, More Than Magnifiers, The Real
Reasons For Seasons, River Cutters, Global Warming, Ocean Currents,
Only One Ocean, Plate Tectonics
7. Living Things/Human Body
Standard: Identifies organs and their functions in these systems:
circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, skeletal, digestive, nervous,
endocrine lymphatic, and skin.
7.1 Explains and describes the features and functions of the various
organ systems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning
7.2 Describes and investigates body functions and make inferences regarding
these functions, e.g., heartbeat, sensory perception, lung volume, and
reaction time.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning, More Than Magnifiers
7.3 Discusses and illustrates the organization of cells into tissues,
organs, and systems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning
9. Living Things/Human Body
Standard: Examines how health care technology has improved the quality
of life, (e.g., computerized tomography (C.T.), artificial organs, bionics,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and ultrasound).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning
17. Living Things/ Plants
Standard: Describes and compares various life processes of plants: asexual
and sexual reproduction, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, growth
and response to environmental stimuli.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain
18. Living Things/Animals
Standard: Describes the characteristics of invertebrate animals.
e.g. poriferans, colenterates, segmented worms, mollusks, echinoderms,
and arthropods
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Microscopic
Explorations, Animals in Action, Earthworms, Only One Ocean
18.1 Sorts and classifies invertebrates into groups according to life
conditions, methods of obtaining food, methods of reproduction, and
behavior.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Acid Rain, Only One Ocean
18.2 Describes the characteristics of vertebrates within the Chordata
phylum to include jawless fishes, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes
amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Mapping Animal Movements, Acid Rain, Mapping Fish Habitats,
Only One Ocean
18.3 Sorts members of the Chordata phylum into classes by observation
of characteristics, (e.g., life conditions, method s of obtaining food,
methods of reproduction, and behavior).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Mapping
Animal Movements, Only One Ocean
19. Ecology/Interdependence of Life
Standard: Explains the food web/food chain cycles in nature that
affect living things.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Mapping Animal Movements, Acid Rain, Mapping Fish Habitats,
Only One Ocean
21. Ecology/Interdependence of Life
Standard: Describes the ability of organisms to change as necessity
for species survival.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides:
Environmental Detectives, Mapping Animal Movements, Acid Rain, Mapping
Fish Habitats
21.1 Defines and gives examples of adaptation for survival of the species.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Mapping Animal Movements, Acid Rain, Mapping Fish Habitats
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