7th Grade Science Guide

7.1: Forces & Motion 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 1

● Rocket Races ● Marbles, Lego Balloon Car, Pop Tops

● Ping Pong Ball vs. Golf Ball Experiment - use a template taped to the table to show how far to pull back the ruler so the same force is applied each time like shown in the image below.

Extension

Students could research Rockets, specifcally how scientists use math to launch a rocket into space.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ● SEEd 7.1.2 Formative Assessment

ELA CONNECTIONS ● RST.6-8.1: Cite specifc textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions. ● RST.6-8.3: Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks. ● WHST.6-8.7: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

MATH CONNECTIONS ● MP.2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

● 7.EE.B.3: Solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any form, using tools strategically. Apply properties of operations to calculate