Grade 7 Phenomena Poster Bundle

Bring phenomenon-based science instruction to life with this complete Grade 7 Phenomena Bundle.

This bundle includes all nine Grade 7 science units and provides 54 full-color phenomena posters designed to spark curiosity, strengthen academic vocabulary, encourage evidence-based discussion, and help students develop increasingly sophisticated scientific explanations.

Each unit includes six individual portrait phenomena posters centered around engaging science or engineering phenomena. Students observe carefully, ask questions, analyze models and evidence, identify patterns, make predictions, construct explanations, and revise their thinking as their scientific understanding develops.

These posters are designed to function as active instructional tools rather than simple classroom decorations. Use them to launch investigations, build interactive science focus walls, introduce challenging concepts, reinforce vocabulary, support scientific modeling, and provide repeated Claim-Evidence-Reasoning practice throughout the year.

Units Included

Microbiome

Metabolism

Metabolism Engineering Internship

Magnetic Fields

Force and Motion

Force and Motion Engineering Internship

Plate Motion

Rock Transformations

Weather Patterns

Each unit includes six phenomena posters for a total of 54 posters in the complete Grade 7 bundle.

What’s Included on Each Phenomena Poster

Each poster includes:

A high-interest phenomenon question

A detailed science visual, model, diagram, map, or real-world scenario

“What do you notice?” observation prompts

“What do you wonder?” discussion questions

Key science vocabulary

A “Try This Thinking” activity or challenge

A CER Starter for Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning practice

A concise science statement reinforcing the central concept

Microbiome

Help students investigate the invisible communities of microorganisms living in and around organisms.

Students explore microorganisms, microbial populations, communities, interactions, environmental conditions, and the human microbiome.

The phenomena encourage students to analyze how microbial populations can change and how those changes may influence a larger biological system.

Students also have opportunities to challenge the common misconception that all microorganisms are harmful and develop a more evidence-based understanding of microbial communities.

Metabolism

Help students investigate how the human body obtains and uses matter and energy.

Students explore relationships among the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems while tracing nutrients and oxygen to cells.

The phenomena encourage students to connect observable experiences such as breathing, heart rate, eating, and physical activity with processes occurring inside the body.

Students begin developing a systems-level understanding of how cells receive the materials they need for metabolism and cellular energy release.

Metabolism Engineering Internship

Help students apply their understanding of metabolism and body systems to an authentic engineering challenge.

Students analyze biological evidence, trace the movement of nutrients and oxygen, consider cellular needs, and evaluate possible engineering solutions.

The phenomena provide opportunities to identify criteria and constraints, compare designs, evaluate trade-offs, and justify recommendations with scientific evidence.

Students see how knowledge of biological systems can inform engineering decisions and real-world problem solving.

Magnetic Fields

Help students investigate magnetic forces and invisible magnetic fields.

Students explore attraction, repulsion, magnetic poles, force at a distance, field strength, and patterns in magnetic interactions.

Because magnetic fields cannot be seen directly, students use models and observable effects to infer what is happening.

The phenomena provide engaging opportunities to connect visible motion with invisible forces and to use evidence when explaining magnetic interactions.

Force and Motion

Help students investigate how forces affect the motion of objects.

Students explore balanced and unbalanced forces, speed, direction, acceleration, net force, and changes in motion.

The phenomena encourage students to analyze force diagrams, compare the strength and direction of forces, and connect those interactions with observable motion.

Students begin moving beyond simply identifying pushes and pulls and toward explaining why an object starts moving, stops, speeds up, slows down, or changes direction.

Force and Motion Engineering Internship

Help students apply force and motion principles to engineering design challenges.

Students analyze forces, examine motion, interpret models, test possible solutions, and evaluate how design changes affect performance.

The phenomena encourage students to define criteria and constraints, compare multiple solutions, analyze test evidence, and improve designs through revision.

Students experience engineering as an iterative process grounded in scientific evidence.

Plate Motion

Help students investigate how Earth’s tectonic plates move and interact.

Students explore plate boundaries, earthquakes, volcanoes, faults, mountain formation, subduction, and other large-scale geologic processes.

The phenomena encourage students to examine maps, identify patterns, analyze models, and use surface evidence to infer processes occurring beneath Earth’s crust.

Students begin thinking like geologists as they connect observable features with plate motion over long periods of time.

Rock Transformations

Help students investigate how rocks change from one form to another.

Students explore igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks along with processes such as weathering, erosion, deposition, heat, pressure, melting, cooling, compaction, and cementation.

The phenomena encourage students to move beyond memorizing a rock-cycle diagram and begin explaining the actual processes responsible for rock transformation.

Students use visible rock features and models to infer how rocks may have formed and changed over time.

Weather Patterns

Help students investigate the atmospheric processes that create changing weather.

Students explore air masses, temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind, clouds, precipitation, weather fronts, and forecasting.

The phenomena encourage students to analyze weather maps and models, identify patterns, make predictions, and connect changing atmospheric conditions with observable weather.

Students begin understanding weather as the result of interacting processes rather than a collection of unrelated conditions.

Build Strong Notice and Wonder Routines

Every poster provides a ready-to-use opportunity for students to investigate a phenomenon before being given an explanation.

Students examine the visual, model, map, or scenario and begin by describing what they notice.

They then generate questions, identify patterns, make predictions, compare ideas with classmates, and begin developing possible explanations.

Using this consistent Notice and Wonder structure throughout all nine units creates a familiar routine while allowing students to apply increasingly sophisticated reasoning to new science content.

Develop Middle School Scientific Reasoning

Grade 7 students are ready to move beyond simply describing observations.

These posters encourage students to analyze evidence, interpret scientific models, trace cause-and-effect relationships, recognize system interactions, evaluate alternative explanations, and justify conclusions.

Students can begin with an initial idea, gather evidence through instruction and investigation, and return to the same phenomenon later to revise their explanation.

This repeated process reinforces the idea that scientific explanations become stronger as evidence and understanding increase.

Build CER Skills Across 54 Phenomena

Every poster includes a student-friendly CER Starter.

Students practice making a Claim, selecting relevant Evidence, and using Reasoning to explain why that evidence supports their conclusion.

With 54 different phenomena spanning life science, physical science, Earth science, atmospheric science, and engineering, students receive extensive opportunities to strengthen evidence-based speaking and writing.

The consistent CER structure also allows teachers to gradually increase expectations as students become more confident scientific thinkers.

Strengthen Science Vocabulary in Context

Important academic vocabulary is embedded directly within meaningful science phenomena.

Students use new terminology while observing, comparing, modeling, analyzing evidence, discussing ideas, and constructing explanations.

Vocabulary becomes connected to scientific thinking rather than remaining an isolated list of definitions.

Displaying the posters throughout each unit also provides students with an ongoing visual reference for important concepts and terms.

Support Scientific Modeling

Many Grade 7 concepts involve processes students cannot directly observe.

Students cannot see magnetic fields, cellular metabolism, tectonic plates moving beneath Earth, or the large-scale atmospheric processes responsible for changing weather.

The posters provide visual models that help students represent these processes, analyze relationships, make predictions, and revise explanations.

Students learn that models are tools scientists use to explain processes that may be too small, too large, too slow, or otherwise impossible to observe directly.

Develop Systems Thinking

Systems thinking appears throughout the Grade 7 collection.

Students examine interacting microbial communities, connected body systems, force systems, tectonic systems, rock transformations, and atmospheric systems.

They identify components, trace relationships, recognize patterns, and consider how changing one part of a system may affect other parts.

These skills provide an important foundation for increasingly complex science learning.

Connect Cause and Effect

The Grade 7 phenomena provide repeated opportunities to analyze cause-and-effect relationships.

Students can investigate how changes in a microbiome influence a larger biological system, how changes in forces affect motion, how plate interactions create geological events, how particular processes transform rocks, and how changing atmospheric conditions influence weather.

Students move from simply describing what happened toward explaining the mechanisms responsible for those changes.

Connect Science and Engineering

The Metabolism Engineering Internship and Force and Motion Engineering Internship provide meaningful opportunities to apply scientific understanding to design challenges.

Students identify problems, establish criteria and constraints, analyze evidence, compare possible solutions, test ideas, evaluate trade-offs, and revise designs.

These experiences demonstrate that science provides the knowledge engineers use to make informed design decisions.

Create an Interactive Science Focus Wall

Display the posters as part of your Grade 7 science focus wall and rotate them as your class progresses through each unit.

Introduce one phenomenon at a time or display several together so students can compare models, evidence, and scientific relationships.

Because each poster includes observations, questions, vocabulary, thinking challenges, and CER support, your focus wall becomes an active instructional resource rather than simply a decorative classroom display.

Flexible for Many Classroom Uses

Use this bundle for:

Whole-group science instruction

Phenomenon launches

Science focus walls

Notice and Wonder routines

Small-group instruction

Science centers

Science notebook responses

Vocabulary development

CER practice

Scientific modeling

Engineering design discussions

Data and map analysis

Evidence-based discussions

Partner conversations

Unit introductions

Review and reinforcement

Assessment discussions

Classroom displays

Use the Posters Before, During, and After Instruction

Before instruction, introduce a phenomenon and collect students’ initial observations, questions, and explanations.

During instruction, revisit the poster as students gather evidence, analyze models, learn new vocabulary, and develop more complete explanations.

After instruction, ask students to return to the original phenomenon and explain it again using what they now understand.

This provides students with a clear way to see how their scientific thinking develops and becomes more sophisticated over time.

Save With the Complete Grade 7 Collection

Instead of purchasing each Grade 7 unit separately, this bundle provides the complete collection in one cohesive resource.

You receive:

9 complete science units

6 phenomena posters per unit

54 total phenomena posters

Consistent formatting across the complete collection

Repeated Notice and Wonder opportunities

Extensive CER practice

Integrated science vocabulary support

Scientific modeling opportunities

Systems-thinking practice

Engineering design connections

Evidence and data-analysis opportunities

A cohesive visual system for Grade 7 science instruction

The consistent format allows students to quickly become familiar with the instructional routine while each new unit introduces fresh phenomena and increasingly challenging scientific concepts.

A Yearlong Phenomenon-Based Science Resource

With 54 different phenomena spanning microbiology, metabolism, magnetic fields, force and motion, plate tectonics, rock transformations, weather systems, and engineering design, this bundle provides an extensive collection of instructional materials for the Grade 7 science classroom.

Whether you use the posters to launch investigations, build a science focus wall, support academic discussion, reinforce vocabulary, interpret models, practice CER, analyze evidence, or connect science with engineering, students receive repeated opportunities to observe, question, analyze, model, explain, and communicate like scientists.

Important Disclaimer

This resource is independently created and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or produced by Amplify Education. The use of “Amplify” in the product title is intended only to help educators identify the curriculum topics with which this supplemental resource may be used. Amplify Education owns its respective trademarks and curriculum materials.