7th Grade Science Guide

7.1: Field Forces 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 2

magnetic feld of several different magnets.

● Research how animals use Earth’s magnetic feld to navigate. Possibly have students read one of the following and do some further research: ○ Sharks use Earth’s magnetic feld as a GPS, scientists say ○ How do Birds Navigate? ● Students could also read this article about Magnetic Levitation vehicles, Flying trains. Each school should have a mag lev track, and students could build some mag lev vehicles and race them.

Extension

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

SEEd 7.1.3 Formative Assessment

ELA CONNECTIONS ● 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 ● Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem and construct simple equations to solve problems.