Science — Grade 7

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The Mozart effect

The purpose of this lesson is to develop an understanding of why skepticism is important in science. Students will explore what happens when the media and/or the public discover a scientific study and extrapolates the message into “truth” without... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Monkey pay-per-view

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about an experiment in which monkeys were given a carefully measured amount of juice when they looked at, or away from, various pictures. This study may provide information about humans with autism. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mona Lisa's smile

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how the Mona Lisa's smile appears to change depending on where on her face you look. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mass extinction

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a study that may cast doubt on the belief that a giant asteroid wiped out most of life on earth almost 250 million years ago. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Making Music Fun!

Looking for sheet music, information about composers, or music lesson plans? This site has it all. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Lying on email

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a study that explores the challenge of detecting lies and cons over email. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Lying

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks students hear about how people generally see their own lies as being less harmful and more due to situation and not personality, while they are more likely to blame personality if another person lies. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Lions and people: Keeping the balance

In this Xpeditions lesson, students read an article about the conflicts between lions and people. They focus on an area of Kenya outside of the national park system that is being managed and studied in an attempt to maintain a healthy lion population. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science and Social Studies)

Provided by: National Geographic

Kings of the Kalahari

In this Xpeditions lesson, students study the defining characteristics of deserts and apply this knowledge to a study of the Kalahari Desert. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science and Social Studies)

Provided by: National Geographic

Inventors and innovators

The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to use the Internet to explore the scientific enterprise and the contributions to science of various people. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Introducing static electricity

Students perform simple experiments creating static electricity. They will demonstrate how opposite charges attract each other and like charges repel each other. Then students will explore a website that further explains these concepts. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Introducing atoms

In this lesson from Science NetLinks, students will be asked to review websites to learn about the atom's basic structure and the positive and negative charges of its subparticles. This is the first of a series of four lessons about static electricity. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Interpreting the evidence

This lesson, the second of a two-part series from Science NetLinks, offers useful information and activities to help students understand how scientists learn about civilizations that have disappeared. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science and Social Studies)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Infancy and early childhood

This Science NetLinks lesson, the first of a two-part series aimed at introducing students to the different stages of physical growth and development in human beings, helps students become better aware of all the natural physical stages of growth children... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Gum and heart disease

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how scientists have found two kinds of oral bacteria in human artery plaque, a sticky substance that clogs blood vessels. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 7 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Finger length

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a study that looks to finger length for signs of a man's pre-natal exposure to testosterone. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fever chill

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear Dr. Matthew Kluger, of the Medical College of Georgia, explain why fevers give people the chills. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–7 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fatherly fish

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about one type of fish that shows fatherly behavior. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fair division

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about an interactive algorithm that can be used in the resolution of conflicts surrounding the division of rooms and rent among roommates. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics and Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Eye tracking

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear how scientists can measure the way we process language by observing people's eye movements. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science