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Grade Level Expectations for 7th Grade

Key:   EALR -Essential Academic Learning Requirements

GLE – Grade Level Expectation

Example: GLE 1.1.1 (EALR 1, Component 1, GLE 1)

 

EALR 1: Systems.

Component 1.1: Properties. Understand how properties are used to identify, describe, and categorize substances, materials, and objects and how characteristics are used to categorize living things.

GLE 1.1.1: Understand how to use physical and chemical properties to sort and identify substances.

GLE 1.1.6: Understand how to classify organisms by their external and internal structures. 

 

Component 1.2 Structures: Understand how components, structures, organizations, and interconnections describe systems.

GLE 1.2.1: Analyze how the parts of a system interconnect and influence each other.

GLE 1.2.6: Understand that specialized cells within multi-cellular organisms form different kinds of tissues, organs, and organ systems to carry out life functions. 

GLE 1.2.7: Understand that organisms pass on genetic information in their life cycle and that an organism’s characteristics are determined by both genetic and environmental influences. 

GLE 1.2.8: Understand human life functions and the interconnecting organ systems necessary to maintain human life.  

 

Component 1.3 Changes: Understand how interactions within and among systems cause changes in matter and energy.

GLE 1.3.5: Understand how fossils and other evidence are used to document life and environmental changes over time

GLE 1.3.8: Understand how individual organisms, including cells, obtain matter and energy for life processes. 

GLE 1.3.9: Understand how the theory of biological evolution accounts for species diversity, adaptation, natural selection, extinction, and change in species over time. 

GLE 1.3.10: Understand how organisms in ecosystems interact with and respond to their environment and other organisms.