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Seventh grade students meet for science four days a week, with one class
being a 90- minute double period.
Curriculum
Pressure, Heat, and Weather
- Concept of static fluid pressure
- Relationship between area, pressure, volume, and temperature
- Cardiovascular system, blood pressure, and the human heart
- Pulmonary system, lung volume and respiration
- Bernoulli's Principle
- Fog and weather of San Francisco
Density
- Mass and volume and their relationship to density
- Buoyant force and Archimedes' Principle
- Applied density
Botany
Plant life cycles
- Germination, growth, flowering, pollination, double fertilization, seed
and fruit development, death and decay, seed dispersal
Experimentation
- Germination experiments with temperature, moisture, nutrients, planting
medium, and light; comparative germination rates; bioassay (salt solution)
Anatomy
- Non-reproductive features of young seedlings and plants
- Reproductive features (flower anatomy)
Biological processes
- Germination
- Tropisms
- Photosynthesis and respiration
- Pollination, fertilization, and embryogenesis
Evolution and ecology
- Co-evolution
- Pollinators, floral diversity and habitat
Force and Motion
- Pendulums
- Center of mass and stability
- Torque, rotation, and balancing
- Newton's Three Laws of Motion
- Rocketry
- Gravity
- Mechanics of the human body
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