Content

I. Parts and Functions

1. Microscopy

2. Levels of Biological
Organization

3. Animal and Plant Cells

Grade 7
Topic Outline
Second Quarter
Living Things and Their Environment
Topic
How to Use Light
Microscope
Making a Wet mount and
Observing Specimens
Specimen Under the
Microscope
What Makes up an
Organism

Plant System
Levels of Biological
Organization
Plant and Animal Cells

Cell as the Basic Unit of

All Organisms

4. Fungi, Protists and

Bacteria

II. Heredity: Inheritance

and Variation
1. Asexual Reproduction

2. Sexual Reproduction

III. Ecosystems
1. Components of
an Ecosystem

Living Things Other Than

Plants and Animals
What other Living Things
are Found in the School
Ground

Asexual Reproduction

Reproduction in
Flowering Plants
Sexual Reproduction in
Humans and Animals
Difference Between
Asexual and Sexual
Reproduction
Components of an
Ecosystem
Interdependence in
Ecosystem

2. Ecological
Relationships
Symbiotic Relationship
2.1 Symbiotic
Relationships
2.2 Non symbiotic
Relationships

Predation

3. Transfer of energy
through trophic levels

Food Chain
Energy Transfer
Environmental Problems
and Issues

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Their Environment
Learning Competency
Identify parts of the
microscope and their
functions
Focus specimens using
the compound microscope

Describe the different

levels of biological
organization from cell to
biosphere

Differentiate plant and

animal cells according to
presence or absence of
certain organelles
Explain why the cell is
considered the basic
structural and functional
unit of all organisms
Identify beneficial and
harmful microorganisms

Code

S7LT-IIa-1

S7LT-IIb-2

S7LT-II-c-3

S7LT-IId-4

S7LT-II-e-5

S7LT-IIf-6

Differentiate asexual from

sexual reproduction in terms
of: number of individuals
involved; similarities of
offspring to parents
Describe the process of
fertilization

S7LT-IIg-7

S7LT-Iig-8

Differentiate biotic from

abiotic components of an
ecosystem

S7LT-IIh-9

Describe the different

ecological relationships
found in an ecosystem
S7LT-IIh-10

Predict the effect of changes

in one population on other
populations in the ecosystem
Predict the effect of changes
in abiotic factors on the
ecosystem

S7LT-IIi-11

S7LT-IIj-12