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Key:  I=Introduced, D=Developing, M=Mastered, A=Assessed

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Grade 7 Food Production and Energy for Life

 

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

D

Compare and contrast photosynthesis and respiration.

Quia Photosynthesis and Respiration

Photosynthesis
Comparison of Photosynthesis and Respiration

A

Determine what plants need to make food.

Making Food

Plants Puzzle

A

Identify photosynthesis as the food making process in plants.

Plants

Photosynthesis, Energy, and Life
Illuminative Photosynthesis Videos

A

Identify the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration.

D

Relate the processes of photosynthesis and respiration to appropriate cellular organelles.

A

Associate the processes of photosynthesis and respiration with appropriate cellular organelles.

Quia - Photosynthesis and Respiration

D

Diagram and explain how oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between living things and their environment.

A

Select the structures that animals use to obtain oxygen.

A

Classify animals according to their means of obtaining oxygen.

A

Select the illustration that depicts the movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living things and their environment.

A

Interpret a diagram depicting the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle.

Carbon-dioxide Cycle

The Oxygen Carbon-Dioxide Cycle

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Lesson Plans Food
  1. Ecology Lesson Food Chain (Grades 4-5)
  2. Endangered Food Chain Grades 4-5
  3. Creating A Food Chain (Grades K-2)
  4. Food Chain...What Goes Around comes Around Grades 3-5
  5. Food Webs (Grades 3-5)
  6. Explore Third Grade Food Chain (Grade 3)
  7. Food Chain Web (Grades 3-4)
  8. Food Chain Food Web (Grades 3-4)
  9. Focus on Food Chains (Grades 3-4)
  10. Food Guide Pyramid (Grade K-1)

Lesson Plans Plants

  1. Parts of a Plant (Grades 2-5)
  2. Designing Plants (Grades 1-2)
  3. My Totally Tasty Plant (Grades 1-2)
  4. Probing into Plant Parts (Grades 1-4)
  5. See How They Grow:  Plants and Their Parts (Grades K-2)
  6. Plants Thematic Unit (Grades K-2)
  7. Yummy Plant Parts (Grades 5+)

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Topics Food
  1. The Food Cycle
  2. The Food Chain
  3. Food Chains
  4. Food Chains Topics
  5. What is a Food Web?
  6. Enchanted Learning's Food Web
  7. Introduction to Photosynthesis, The Beginning of the Web
  8. After Plants Grow, Who Eats Them?
  9. After all is said and done, who cleans up the mess?
  10. All Living Things Need Food
  11. Who Eats What?
  12. Kid Port Food Chain
  13. What is a herbivore?
  14. Food Chains and Webs
  15. Food Web
  16. The Role of the Predator
  17. Food Chain Puzzle
  18. Food Chain Game Freeware Download

Topics Plants

  1. Parts of Plants Webquest
  2. The Parts of the Plants We Eat
  3. What Parts of Plants Have You Eaten Today? 1st Grade Webquest
  4. Plant Crafts
  5. Plant Sleuth WebQuest
  6. Plants
  7. The Different Parts of A Plant
     

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Interactive Websites for Students
Food
  1. The Food Cycle Song
  2.  Food Chain Quiz
  3. Brain Pop Movie:  Food Chain
  4. Dole 5 A Day
  5. Chain Reaction Quiz
  6. A Food Chain
  7. Food Chain Online Test
  8. Fantastic Forest
  9. What is the Primary Source?
  10. The Virtual Body
  11. Body Zone
  12. Food Chain Puzzle
  13. Brain Pop Movie:  Body Weight
  14. Systems of the Human Body Download the Presentation
  15. Body Systems Download the Presentation

Interactive Websites for Students
Plants

  1. Great Plant Escape
  2. Meet the Plant Parts
  3. Roots, Stems, and Leaves Song
  4. Parts of Plants Song
  5. Parts of Plants Song (Scroll down to song)
  6. Plants and Parts of Plants (Scroll down to text)
  7. Parts of Broccoli
  8. Do You Know Your Leaves?
  9. Parts of Plant PowerPoint Presentation
  10. Brain Pop:  Seed Plant Movie
  11. Fun with Food Webs
  12. Science Songs  (Right-click and choose "Save Target" or "Save Link" to download a copy of the song)
    Science Songs for Teaching      (Right-click and choose "Save Target" or "Save Link" to download a copy of the song)

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Worksheets:  Food
  1. Food Chain Graphic Organizer
  2. Ecosystem Chart
  3. Rain Forest Food Chain
  4. If I was a food...
  5. Make Your Own Food Chain
  6. Magic Food Chain Puzzle

Worksheets:  Plants

  1. Growth and Changes in Plants Parts of Plants
  2. The Parts of A Plant
  3. Plants and Seeds Word Search
  4. Plant Word Search
  5. Parts of a Plant
  6. Plant Vocabulary

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