Science 7 – PGA

Course ID

SCI-071

Department

Science

Level

7th - 8th Grade

Instructor

Cyndi Zoolkoski

Semester

Spring 2020

Credit

Students are required to take Life Science in their seventh-grade year. Life Science is one of the three main branches of science. The main goals of this course are to provide students with a basic knowledge of life science, a variety of organisms, and their many processes; preparing them for Biology; a required course in high school. They will be comfortable using various tools in order to study organisms and will be prepared to learn more advanced concepts about living organisms.

Pre-Unit-Methods of Science (Nature of Science-NOS)
Unit 1 – Life: Structure & Function
Unit 2 – Life: Structure & Function
Unit 3 – Life: Animals

Time	Place	Room	Date Range	Instructor
TBD – TBD	Online	Virtual	January – June	Cyndi Zoolkoski

Duration of Classes: This class is taught at the 7th-grade level for 85 minutes each A or B day for the entire school year (2 semesters).

Text Used: Life Science by McGraw-Hill

By the end of this course, students should have an understanding of life science and its limits. They will also have an understanding of the basis of all life (the cell), how to study it with scientific tools, how to classify and organize information about all living organisms, be familiar with various systems within an organism, how organism reproduces and how traits are passed on through the inheritance.