Full year
In Grade 7 Science, students and teachers engage in learning activities centered around these beliefs. Through the content units of Energy, Ecosystems, Matter and Its Interactions and Earth’s Systems, students are expected to:
- Be inquisitive and to ask questions
- Develop and use models
- Construct explanations of phenomena
- Plan and carry out investigations
- Analyze and interpret data
- Engage in argument from evidence
- Design, test and modify solutions to problems
- Obtain, evaluate and communicate information
As teachers facilitate learning in a more constructivist environment, we expect students to engage with/in: project based learning, laboratory practices, discussion, research, writing activities, technology, engineering design, reflection on learning and an analysis of human impact on Earth. In doing so, students find answers and develop new questions while uncovering understanding from essential questions such as:
- What is energy?
- What affects energy transfer?
- How do we know invisible fields exist on Earth?
- How does resource availability affect ecosystems?
- How do changes in a system impact its stability?
- How do human influences affect the balance of an ecosystem?
- How do we determine if a chemical reaction has taken place?
- How do we know that matter is not created or destroyed?
- How do we know that the Earth’s surface is changing over time?