Seventh Grade: Life Science

This year, students hone their scientific reasoning and critical thinking skills while learning about the living world. Students begin the year thinking about evolution and how it shapes all living things. By practicing evolutionary biology reasoning early in the year, students equip themselves to answer many of their own “why” questions about how organisms function in future units. Students then work their way from small to big in the human body, starting with understanding genetics and what their DNA can and can’t determine about them. Next, they master microscopes while looking at cells and learning about how humans grow from a single cell to a baby. Students then dive into human body systems before finishing the year with a research project that allows them to develop their own informed opinion about a real-world science issue of today.