Grade 7 Science Instructional Component 1, Content Standard Group 1

6a, 6c, 6d, 6f, 6g

Students analyze the pathways light travels through in one or more media. (6c)

#5003, Communication at the Speed of Light

Tiny glass filaments carry so much information that all the books ever written could be transmitted over a fiber optic cable in a few seconds.

Students correlate the structure of a lens with its function. (6d)

#3005-3006, Eyes on the Universe Series, Parts 1 and 2

Part 1: Looking Into Time—Astronomers think of  telescopes as “bigger eyes” that allow them to look not only deep into space, but back into  time.

Part 2: Planetary Systems—New telescopes will soon allow astronomers to study the planetary systems of other stars and compare them to our own Solar System.

6a, 6c, 6d, 6f,

6g

Students determine the angle of reflection based on the angle of incidence. (6g)

#5003, Communication at the Speed of Light

Tiny glass filaments carry so much information that all the books ever written could be transmitted over a fiber optic cable in a few seconds.

rompt: Fiber optic cables don’t always go in straight lines, they go around corners, too.  But light does always travel in straight lines.  Why do you think the light stays inside the cable?

Content Standard Groups

2a, 5f, 2b

Students summarize the sequence of events in the life cycles of organisms that reproduce sexually and asexually. (2a)

Students compare sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction. (2a)

#2006, Cheetahs

To help save an endangered species like the cheetah, you must start by understanding its behavior.

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Grade 7 Science Instructional Component 2, Content Standard Group 1

Content Standard Groups

5a, 5b

#2002, Healing Injured Wild Animals

Veterinarian Mark Pokras assesses, treats and nurses injured wild animals on their road back to health.

Content Standard Groups

6h, 5c, 6i

Students compare joints in the body with structures used in machines and simple devices. (6h)

Students analyze the interactions between bones, muscles and joints to allow for movement in a particular joint. (5c)

Students demonstrate and exemplify how levers confer mechanical advantage and how the application of this principle applies to the musculoskeletal system. (6i)

#1005, An Engineer and Her Robot

To build an anthropomorphic (human-shaped) robot, an engineer has to know biology, electronics, computer programming, physics, math--and which music she wants to have it dance to.

#1006, Testing the Robotic Hand

NASA engineer Larry Li plays has built a robot's hand that can catch a baseball--or recover an essential tool in the vacuum of space.

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Grade 7 Science Instructional Component 2, Content Standard Group 5

Content Standard Groups

3a, 3e, 3b, 4f

#2007, Bats

Bats are an essential and fascinating part of the ecology of many environments.

3a, 3e, 3b, 4f

#2004, Life Under the Ocean

A marine biologist studies the jellyfish-like animals living at 3,000 feet below the surface, where it is cold, dark and quiet.

#2001, The Disappearing Call of the Wild

Archiving and analyzing over 2,000 hours of rainforest sounds, bio-acoustician Bernie Krause measures the decline of species as habitats disappear.