Science, Grade 7
Nova Scotia · Grade 7 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Environmental Action
Analysing particle theory in substances and water quality, the interconnectiveness of living things and the environment in relation to Netukulimk, the factors that drive species adaptation and evolution, and implementing an environmental stewardship plan.
- Pure substances and mixtures
- Separating solutions and mixtures
- Solubility and concentration
- Measuring water health with probeware
- Analysing a waterway's health
- Water purification and pollution cleanup
- Interactions of organisms in an ecosystem
- Human impact on ecosystems
- Resource management and Netukulimk
- Energy flow and matter recycling
- Biotic and abiotic connections
- Biological indicators of health
- Ways species can be classified
- Hypothesizing how organisms adapt
- Natural selection and evolution
- Evidence of evolution
- Strategies for conservation and sustainability
- Community stewardship initiatives
- Making a stewardship plan
Unit 2: Engineering Structures
Testing the strength and efficiency of shapes and materials in construction, the forces that act on and within structures and cause failure, and constructing and testing a structure for a design challenge.
- Strength of shapes and materials
- Applications of shapes and materials
- Properties of construction materials
- Manufactured and natural structures
- Forces on and within structures
- Testing structures to failure
- Forces that cause structural failure
- Static and dynamic forces
- Applying design concepts
- Choosing materials for the challenge
- Building the structure
- Testing against challenge criteria
Unit 3: Geological Evolution
Analysing how geographic features form and change through plate tectonics, erosion and deposition, and the technologies that measure geological change, then the factors that drive coastline change.
- Geographic features and plate boundaries
- Evidence for plate movement
- Erosion and deposition
- Technologies that measure geological change
- Weathering and erosion
- Impact of waves and tides
- Protecting the coast
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