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🔬 7th Grade · ScienceMS-LS1-6Unit 3: Photosynthesis & respiration

Photosynthesis

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🎯 Objective: Students explain how plants make food using light energy.

Lesson outline

  1. Leaf disk lab.
  2. Diagram.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: the equation in words.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MS-LS1-6

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), middle school — Life Science (discipline-specific model)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain photosynthesis cycles matter and energy
  • Model how food is rearranged to release energy

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Photosynthesis & respiration”

  1. Photosynthesis
  2. Cellular respiration
  3. Cycle of matter

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