Science 7
Alberta · Grade 7 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Interactions and Ecosystems
How humans relate to their environment, how energy and materials flow through ecosystems, how environmental factors affect organisms, and how knowledge guides decisions that sustain life-supporting environments.
- Human–environment relationships
- Issues and scientific questions
- Food chains and food webs
- Energy flow and material cycling
- Environmental factors
- Monitoring organisms over time
- Sustaining life-supporting environments
- From knowledge to action
Unit 2: Plants for Food and Fibre
How humans use plants, the life processes and structures of plants, the factors and controls in plant environments, and the links among human needs, technology and the culture of growing living things.
- Plant uses
- Plant technologies and impacts
- Plant structures and their jobs
- Photosynthesis and plant needs
- Factors affecting plant growth
- Controlling growing conditions
- Living things as food and fibre
- Needs, technology and environment
Unit 3: Heat and Temperature
How human needs drove heating technologies and energy use, the nature of thermal energy and its effects on matter, how heat transfer explains phenomena and devices, and the trade-offs of thermal technologies.
- Technologies for controlling heat
- Energy resources for heat
- Heat vs. temperature
- The particle model of heat
- Heat and changes of state
- Conduction, convection and radiation
- Expansion and thermal devices
- Comparing thermal technologies
- Sustainability trade-offs
Unit 4: Structures and Forces
The types and materials of structures, the forces within and applied to them, the properties of materials used, and the design process for building safe structures that meet human needs.
- Solid, frame and shell structures
- Materials of structures
- Internal and external forces
- Loads and how structures resist them
- Strength and flexibility
- Choosing the right material
- The design process
- Margin of safety
Unit 5: Planet Earth
Methods for studying Earth and its materials, evidence for the rock cycle, evidence of major changes in landforms and rock layers, and the story told by the fossil record.
- How we study the Earth
- Earth’s materials
- The three rock types
- The rock cycle
- Evidence of landform change
- Reading rock layers
- Fossils as evidence
- Interpreting the fossil record
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