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 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:
- How do we design an experiment that enables us to track changes in energy?
- How do we use systems models to help us make the invisible visible?
- What determines a chemical reaction?
- How can the various proposed design solutions be compared and improved?
- How do changes in the physical environment affect what lives there?
- How do relationship breakups change an environment?
- How will your understanding of plate tectonics help you decide where to live?
- Why does the surface of the Earth look the way that it does?