Comprehensive Science 2

​UNIT 1: ENERGY
I.          Heat and the Practice of Science (SC.7.N.1.1; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.4; SC.7.P.11.1)
A.        Heat Transfer in Scientific Investigations
B.        Adding & Removing Heat using the Scientific Process

​I.          Heat Energy (SC.7.P.11.1; SC.7.P.11.4; SC.7.N.1.1; SC.7.N.1.2)
A.        Heat and Temperature
B.        Change of State
C.        Heat Flow

​I.          Conservation of Energy and Energy Transformations (SC.7.P.11.2; SC.7.P.11.3; SC.7.N.1.1; LAFS.68.RST.4.10)
A.        Forms of Energy
B.        Energy Transformations
C.        Law of Conservation of Energy

​UNIT 2: WAVES
 
I.          Electromagnetic Spectrum  (SC.7.P.10.1; SC.7.N.1.3; SC.7.N.1.4; MAFS.6.SP.2.5a, b and c, LAFS.68.RST.1.3) (
A.        Properties of Waves
B.        The Sun’s Energy as Radiation: Electromagnetic Spectrum
C.        Relationship between Wavelength and Frequency

​I.          Properties of Waves (SC.7.P.10.2; SC.7.P.10.3; SC.7.N.1.3; SC.7.N.1.4; LAFS.68.RST.2.4, MAFS.6.SP.2.5d)
A.        Light Properties
B.        Wave Speed in Different Materials

​UNIT 3: EARTH’S STRUCTURE
I.          Layers of Earth (SC.7.E.6.1; SC.7.N.3.2, MAFS.6.SP.2.5b)
A.        Crust and Lithosphere
B.        Mantle
C.        Core
D.        Comparing Layers of the Earth

​I.    Plate Tectonics (SC.7.E.6.4; SC.7.E.6.5; SC.7.E.6.7; SC.7.N.3.2; SC.7.N.2.1; LAFS.68.WHST.1.2)
A.        Continental Drift
B.        Describing Tectonic Plate Movement
C.        Explaining Plate Movement through Heat Flow

​UNIT 4: ROCK CYCLE and  AGE  OF THE EARTH
 
I.          Rock Cycle and Processes that Shape Earth’s Surface (SC.7.E.6.2; SC.7.E.6.6; LAFS.68.RST.3.7)
A.        Rock Cycle
B.        Review of Landforms and Apply to Florida
C.        How Humans Impact the Earth

​I.          Age of Earth/ Geological Time (SC.7.E.6.4; SC.7.E.6.3, LAFS.6.8.WHST.1.2, LAFS.68.WHST.3.9) (
A.        Measuring the Age of the Earth
B.        Evidence of Changes to Earth

UNIT 5: EVOLUTION
 
I.          Evidence of Species Change (SC.7.L.15.1; SC.7.L.15.2; SC.7.L.15.3; SC.7.N.3.1))
A.        Evidence of Scientific Theory of Evolution
B.        Adaptations
C.        Extinction

I.          Natural Selection (SC.7.L.15.2; SC.7.L.15.3)
A.        Conditions for Natural Selection
B.        Natural Selection

UNIT 6: ECOLOGY
 
I.          Relationships in Ecosystems (SC.7.L.17.2; SC.7.L.17.1; SC.7.L.17.3) (
A.        Relationships
B.        Food Web
C.        Limiting Factors
 
II.         Human Impact on Earth (SC.7.E.6.6; SC.7.N.1.2; MAFS.6.SP.2.5c and d)
A.        Resources
B.        Biodiversity
C.        Pollution
D.        Human Impact of the Everglades

​UNIT 7 GENETICS
 
I.          DNA, Chromosomes, and Heredity (SC.7.L.16.1, SC.7.L.16.3))
A.        Review Cell Structure
B.        DNA
C.        Reproduction
 
II.         Genetic Traits and Heredity (SC.7.L.16.2), LAFS.68.RST.2.4)
A.        Mendelian Genetics
B.        Genotype/Phenotype
C.        Genetic Probabilities
 
XVI.    Biotechnology (SC.7.L.16.4; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.1.7)
A.        Cloning
B.        Genetic Engineering
C.        Artificial Selection
D.        Impact on Society

​UNIT 8: HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
 
XVI.       Health and Disease Prevention (HE.7.C.1.1; HE.C.1.2; HE.C.1.8; HE.7.B.3.1; HE.7.B.3.6)
A.        Reproductive Health
B.        Stress Management
C.        Heredity
D.        Communicable Disease and Infection
E.        Healthy Decisions
F.        Healthy Goals
 
XVII.  Human Growth and Development (HE.7.C.1.7; HE.C.1.8; HE.P.1.2; HE.7.P.1.3; HE.7.B.3.6)
A.        Body Systems
B.        Mental
C.        Dating
D.        HIV/AIDS
E.        Abstinence