7TH GRADE ART POWER STANDARDS
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Students will learn a variety of “tricks of the trade” for improving their drawing skills
(proportion).
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Students will demonstrate a thorough understanding of color theory (primaries,
secondaries, intermediates, neutrals, complementary colors, analogous colors,
monochromatic colors, tints, shades, warm colors, cool colors). They will explore, learn,
and TEACH basic color theory.
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Students will create a painting of their choice painted in the style of Native American
Ojibwe artist Frank Big Bear.
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Students will apply basic clay construction skills toward building a basic coil pot.
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Students will continue to practice the basics of throwing pottery on the pottery wheel.
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Students will maintain proper care of all art tools in use on a daily basis.
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Students will explore, design, and construct a bust of a human head in paper mâché.
7THGRADE BAND POWER STANDARDS
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I can sit in performance posture, breathe band style (full breath) and produce a full sound
on my instrument.
I can perform with written articulations: staccato, legato, accent, tenuto, slurs, ties.
I will practice at home 3-5 times per week, 20-25 minutes each time.
I can play music alone and with others.
I can learn to change my interpretation of music based on the advice of others.
I can play the Chromatic, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, and F scales and arpeggios, one octave, quarter
note=120: first in quarter note pattern, then in 8th note pattern. Woodwinds begin 2
octaves.
I can read key signature for the scales listed above, and perform in the correct key.
I can read, perform, and write the notes on the staff and up to two ledger lines for my clef.
I can count, play and write whole, half, quarter, eighth, dotted rhythms, and 16th notes and
rests.
I can understand and apply elements of music including melody, harmony, texture, unison,
divisi, and form.
I can play with style, phrasing, and balance.
I can play with the following dynamics: ff,f,mf,mp,p,pp,sfz, crescendo and decrescendo.
I can play in 4/4, 2/4, ¾, cut time, and slow 6/8.
I can change meters within a piece of music.
I can perform music of different styles on a concert.
Percussion: In addition to Paradiddle, Single Stroke Roll, Multiple Bounce Roll, Flam, Double
Stroke Open Roll, 9 Stroke Roll, and 17 Stroke Roll, I will learn the following rudiments: Drag,
5 Stroke Roll, Flam Accent, Flam Paradiddle.
7TH GRADE CHOIR POWER STANDARDS
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I will be able to perform rhythm patterns in a piece of choral music.
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I will be able to sight sing a melody line using solfege syllables.
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I will be able to recognize the vertical alignment of a piece of choral music.
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I will be able to rehearse and perform music from a variety of contexts and styles alone or within small
or large groups.
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I will be able to analyze and interpret a variety of musical works and performances using established
criteria.
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I will understand the meaning of diction and be able to demonstrate good diction in performances.
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I will be able to perform alone and in a group (two- and three-part harmony) using musical expression
such as phrasing, dynamic contrast, technique, balance and accurate articulation.
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Develop an artistic intent, including how audience and occasion impact performance choices.
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I will be able to revise performance based on the feedback of others, self-reflection and artistic intent.
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I will be able to evaluate my vocal health and determine a probable cause and solution if there is a
problem.
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I will recognize and model good audience etiquette behaviors when observing other performances.
7TH GRADE COMPUTER POWER STANDARDS
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Continue to improve their skills on the QWERTY keyboard.
Continue to improve their skills on the numeric keypad.
Review Microsoft Word and the document and text formatting features.
Create interesting Excel worksheets using a variety of formatting features.
Demonstrate their understanding of formulas in worksheets.
Create various types of graphs using Excel and its graphing features.
Create PowerPoint presentations that include backgrounds, different slide layouts, clip
art, transitions, custom animation, and Illustrations.
Create music videos using Windows Moviemaker.
Use GoogleEarth to explore possible highlights for a trip of their choice.
FAMILY CONSUMER SCIENCE POWER STANDARDS
Standards will be posted during the 2011-12 school year.
7TH GRADE HEALTH POWER STANDARDS
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I can describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social
health in adolescence.
I can analyze how the environment affects personal health.
I can describe how family history can affect personal health.
I can describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
I can analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.
I can describe situations that may require professional health services.
I can apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
I can demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks.
I can demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.
I can demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.
I can distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or
problems.
I can demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.
I can demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.
I can work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools.
7TH GRADE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLGY TRIMESTER POWER STANDARDS
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The students will follow instructions.
The student will follow safety rules.
The student will clean up the shop.
The student will respect and help their classmates.
The student will plan, construct and finish a wood project.
The student will respect tools, machines, and other people’s property.
7TH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS POWER STANDARDS
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I can determine what a text says outright, or explicitly, and what it infers. I can give textural support for
my conclusion.
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I can evaluate the structure of texts and explain how the structure adds to its meaning.
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I can find at least one theme or central idea in a text and analyze its development throughout a text.
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I can determine an author’s point of view or purpose and analyze how the author distinguishes his or
her position from that of others. I can analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view
of different characters.
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I can compare and contrast one version of a story or time to another understanding and explaining why
changes to facts, medium, etc. were made.
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I can write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and share ideas and information through
the use of relevant content.
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I can write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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I can write narratives and creative texts to develop real or imagined experiences using relevant details
and well structured event sequences.
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I can write clearly and coherently with development, organization, and style that are appropriate to the
task, purpose, and audience. I can use a writing process to develop and strengthen writing as needed
by planning, drafting, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach focusing on reaching the
purpose and audience.
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I can do short research projects to answer a question, using several sources and evaluating the
credibility and accuracy of each source while avoiding plagiarism.
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I can participate effectively in discussions with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and
expressing my own clearly and persuasively.
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I can write an objective summary of the text.
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I can include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify information and
emphasize important points.
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I can use proper grammar including capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing or speaking.
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I can present information in a clear way, emphasizing important points and giving support using
appropriate eye contact, volume, and pronunciation.
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I can figure out the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words using context clues, affixes, and/
or root words. I can figure out the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words by consulting
reference materials as appropriate and verifying meaning if needed.
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I can demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and small differences in
word meanings.
7TH GRADE MATH POWER STANDARDS
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I will locate positive and negative rational numbers on the number line, understand the concept of
opposites, and plot pairs of positive and negative rational numbers on a coordinate grid.
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I will compare positive and negative rational numbers expressed in various forms using the symbols <,
>, ≤, ≥.
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I will add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and negative rational numbers that are integers,
fractions, and terminating decimals using efficient, standard procedures.
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I will use proportional reasoning to solve problems involving ratios in various contexts.
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I will generate equivalent numerical and algebraic expressions that contain rational numbers and
whole number exponents. I will recognize and use properties of algebra including the associative,
commutative, and distributive laws.
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I will evaluate algebraic expressions containing rational numbers and whole number exponents when
given specified values of their variables.
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I will recognize and generate equivalent representations of positive and negative rational numbers,
including equivalent fractions.
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I will use real-world contexts and the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction to explain
why the procedures of arithmetic with negative rational numbers make sense.
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I will use knowledge of proportions to determine whether a solution is reasonable.
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I will demonstrate understanding of order of operations and grouping symbols when using calculators
and other technologies.
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I will represent relationships in various contexts with equations involving variables (positive and
negative rational numbers), use the properties of equality to solve for the value of a variable, and
interpret the solution in the original context.
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I will demonstrate an understanding of the proportional relationship between the diameter and
circumference of a circle and that the unit rate (constant of proportionality) is π . I will calculate the
circumference and area of circles and sectors of circles to solve problems in various contexts.
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I will determine mean, median and range for quantitative data and from data represented in a display
and use these quantities to draw conclusions about the data, compare different data sets, and make
predictions.
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I will use reasoning with proportions to appropriately display and interpret data in circle graphs (pie
charts) and histograms and know how to create the display using a spreadsheet or other graphing
technology.
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I will calculate probability as a fraction of sample space or as a fraction of area and express
probabilities as percents, decimals, and fractions.
7TH GRADE PHYSICAL EDUCATION POWER STANDARDS
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I can demonstrates goal setting ability in physical education
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I can demonstrate an underhand or overhand serve from at least half court.
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I can assess my cardio vascular fitness level
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I will demonstrates all positions of Soccer
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I can demonstrate the “give and go” play in basketball
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I can handle the puck down the “rink” or floor
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I can shoot a layup using correct form in basketball.
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I can demonstrate safe playing hockey when using equipment (goggles and sticks)
7TH GRADE READING POWER STANDARDS
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I can read and comprehend stories, dramas, and poems written at the seventh grade
reading level.
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I can determine themes of a text and analyze their development over the course of the
text. I can summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
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I can determine what the text says explicitly or infers. I can give textual support for my
conclusions.
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I can analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact over the course of the
text. I can analyze the structure of texts and explain how the structure adds to its
meaning (flashbacks, foreshadowing, hook, and cliffhanger).
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I can figure out the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words using context
clues, affixes and roots.
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I can analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
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I can compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged
or multimedia version.
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I can demonstrate an understanding of technical and figurative language.
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I can analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different
characters or narrators in a text.
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I can determine whether reasoning is good/true sound, and if the evidence is relevant
and sufficient.
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I can compare and contrast a fictional and non-fictional version of a time, place, or
character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how
authors of fiction use or alter history.
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I can write an objective summary of the text.
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I can participate effectively in discussions with diverse partners, building on others’
ideas and expressing my own clearly and persuasively.
I can analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media formats
and explain how the ideas clarify a topic.
7TH GRADE SCIENCE POWER STANDARDS
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I know that science is a way of knowing about the natural world and is characterized by empirical
criteria, logical argument and skeptical review.
o I know that bias can affect our interpretation of investigations.
o I can generate a testable question.
o I can match an appropriate investigation to my question.
o I can identify variables in an experiment.
o I can draw conclusions from my results and support it with evidence.
o I can use maps, satellite images and other data sets to describe patterns and make predictions.
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I will demonstrate a beginning level of knowledge and application for safety procedures, equipment
use, measurements, graphs and mathematical analyses for use in field research and laboratory use.
o I can keep a data table, graph the data on Excel and interpret the graph.
o I can measure length.
o I can measure area.
o I follow safety directions and show a concern for my safety and that of my classmates.
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I know that all living things are composed of one or more cells that carry on the many functions needed
to sustain life.
o I list three parts of a cell and tell what they can do.
o I can list the three parts of the Cell Theory.
o I know that all cells share some common parts.
o I know that cells divide to make new cells.
o I know that not all cells look alike.
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I know that natural systems can contain a variety of populations and communities that maintain
relationships.
o I can identify populations and communities in an ecosystem.
o I can describe the relationships between populations and communities in an ecosystem.
o I can compare and contrast predator/prey, parasite/host and producer/consumer/decomposer
relationships.
o I can explain how the number of populations an ecosystem can support depends on the abiotic
and biotic resources.
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I can describe the flow of energy and recycling of matter in an ecosystem.
o I can draw a food web.
o I can describe the relationship between the various organisms in a food web.
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I know that traits are determined by information contained in genes that are inherited through asexual
and sexual reproduction.
o I can explain what asexual reproduction is.
o I know that sexual reproduction results from an egg and sperm uniting.
o I know that genetic material is carried in the nucleus of eukaryotic organisms.
o I know that our chromosomes are made of DNA.
o I can explain that sections of DNA make up genes that determine our traits.
o I can explain how our genotypes determine our traits.
o I can use a Punnett Square to predict probable phenotype and genotype outcomes between
two parents.
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I can explain how living things change over time.
o I can identify which characteristics are inherited and which are the result of environmental
influences.
o I can list the evidence that supports the idea that living things change over time.
o I can describe how variation in a population can help or hinder an organism’s ability to survive.
o I understand that extinction is a common event.
o I can explain how environmental changes and a population’s ability to adapt determine
whether it will survive.
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I can explain how human’s interaction with other organisms can cause disease.
o I can list three types of micro-organisms that cause disease.
o I can list three ways of avoiding illness.
o I understand that a vaccine helps your body know how to fight a virus.
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I can explain what different systems in the human body do.
o The immune system helps our body fight disease and stay healthy.
o The digestive system breaks down our food.
o The cardiovascular/circulatory system transports blood through our body that carries needed
materials and helps get rid of wastes.
o The skeletal system gives our body support.
o The nervous system carries messages to and from our brain.
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I can explain how human activities affect populations and communities.
o I can explain how what we put in our waters and air and on our land can affect organisms.
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I can describe how chemistry affects our living systems.
o I can describe compounds necessary for life.
o I can tell the difference between a compound, mixture and element.
o I can describe the parts of an atom.
7TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES POWER STANDARDS
Standards will be posted during the 2011-12 school year.