7th Grade Science Guide

7.3: Structures & Function of Life 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 4

allow them to do the jumping jacks.

Activity: Micro:big Emotion Badge

Objective

Overview

Materials

●​ I can explain how input

●​ Students model systems with inputs and outputs - compare to cellular systems and how they receive signals and talk to each other to make the body function.

●​ Chromebook ●​ Micro:bit ●​ Emotion Badge Lesson

and output signals help in communication.

Activity: Levels of Organization

Objective

Overview

Materials

●​ I can explain how body systems have different levels of organization.

●​ Students are going to be guided through the organization of their body, going from simplest (a cardiac cell) to most complex (human). ●​ Students use the graphic organizer to record information as the teacher guides the class through discussion of the levels of organization of the body, using the slide show. (Teacher note: The slides are to act as a guide for the discussion, not necessarily to be presented in lecture form. In the PPT, students are taken through the levels of organization using a cardiac cell as a starting point.) ●​ At each slide or stage of the discussion guided by the PPT, students discuss

●​ Graphic organizer ●​ Levels of Organization PPT