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Grade 7 Science

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Grade 7 Science covers these 14+ core concepts:

EcosystemsScience, Technology, and SocietySustainability and StewardshipHeat TransferProperties of MatterPure Substances and MixturesScientific InvestigationStructural DesignClimate Change and EnvironmentForces on StructuresHabitats and CommunitiesEnergy Resources and ConservationEngineering DesignStates of Matter and Changes

The 5 units of Grade 7 Science

50 lessons total, sequenced in the order students learn them.

STEM Skills and Connections

10 lessons

1.What Is a Scientific Research Process — and Why Does It Matter?

Scientific Investigation

2.What Is a Scientific Experimentation Process?

Scientific Investigation

3.What Is the Engineering Design Process?

Engineering DesignScientific Investigation

4.Why Safety Procedures Matter in Science and Technology

Scientific Investigation

5.Why Communication Is a Core Science Skill

Scientific Investigation

6.What Is Coding in Science — and Why Does It Matter?

Coding in ScienceScientific Investigation

7.Coding, AI, and Emerging Technologies in Everyday Life

Coding in ScienceScience, Technology, and Society

8.Science and Technology in the Real World

Science, Technology, and Society

9.Science, Technology, and the Real World

Science, Technology, and Society

10.What Are Contributions to Science and Technology?

Science, Technology, and SocietySustainability and Stewardship

Life Systems: Interactions in the Environment

11 lessons

11.What Is Technology's Impact on the Environment?

Science, Technology, and SocietyEcosystemsSustainability and Stewardship

12.What Does It Mean to Mitigate Human Impact?

Sustainability and StewardshipEcosystemsClimate Change and Environment

13.Indigenous Knowledge and Environmental Sustainability

Sustainability and StewardshipScience, Technology, and SocietyEcosystems

14.What Is an Ecosystem?

EcosystemsHabitats and Communities

15.What Are Biotic and Abiotic Components?

EcosystemsHabitats and Communities

16.Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers: Who Does What in an Ecosystem?

EcosystemsHabitats and Communities

17.Energy Transfer in Food Chains

EcosystemsHabitats and CommunitiesEnergy Forms and Transformations

18.Matter on the Move: How Cycling Keeps Earth Going

EcosystemsClimate Change and EnvironmentSustainability and Stewardship

19.What Is Ecological Succession?

EcosystemsHabitats and Communities

20.How Living and Non-Living Factors Control Population Size

EcosystemsHabitats and Communities

21.How We Get Food Affects Ecosystems

EcosystemsSustainability and StewardshipBiodiversity and Classification

Matter and Energy: Pure Substances and Mixtures

10 lessons

22.Pure Substances in Technology: Why It Matters

Pure Substances and MixturesScience, Technology, and SocietySustainability and Stewardship

23.Why Separation Methods Matter

Pure Substances and MixturesScience, Technology, and SocietySustainability and Stewardship

24.What Is the Particle Theory of Matter?

Properties of MatterStates of Matter and Changes

25.What Is Particle Theory, and Why Does It Matter Here?

Pure Substances and MixturesProperties of Matter

26.What Are Mixtures, and Why Does It Matter?

Pure Substances and MixturesScientific Investigation

27.Solubility and the Particle Theory

Pure Substances and MixturesProperties of MatterScientific Investigation

28.What Is a Saturated Solution?

Pure Substances and MixturesScientific Investigation

29.Water: The Universal Solvent

Pure Substances and MixturesProperties of Matter

30.Separating Mixtures: The Big Idea

Pure Substances and MixturesStates of Matter and Changes

31.What Are Pure Substances, Really?

Pure Substances and MixturesProperties of Matter

Structures and Mechanisms: Form and Function

9 lessons

32.Why Structures Matter Beyond the Blueprint

Structural DesignSustainability and StewardshipScience, Technology, and Society

33.What Is Ergonomics — And Why Should You Care?

Structural DesignScience, Technology, and SocietyHuman Body Systems

34.What Are Structures, and Why Do They Matter?

Structural DesignForces on Structures

35.What Is Centre of Gravity and Why Does It Matter?

Forces on StructuresStructural Design

36.Understanding Forces on Structures

Forces on StructuresStructural Design

37.What Is Symmetry in Structures?

Structural DesignForces on Structures

38.Why Structures Fail

Forces on StructuresStructural DesignEngineering Design

39.What Makes a Material Right for the Job?

Structural DesignProperties of MatterEngineering Design

40.How Engineers Keep Structures Safe

Forces on StructuresStructural DesignEngineering Design

Earth and Space Systems: Heat in the Environment

10 lessons

41.Why Heat Technology Matters

Heat TransferEnergy Resources and ConservationScience, Technology, and Society

42.Energy Sources and Their Impacts

Energy Resources and ConservationClimate Change and EnvironmentSustainability and Stewardship

43.What Is Particle Theory and Why Does Heat Matter?

Properties of MatterStates of Matter and ChangesHeat Transfer

44.How Heat Is Generated

Heat TransferEnergy Forms and TransformationsEnergy Resources and Conservation

45.Particle Theory and Heat: Why Things Expand and Contract

States of Matter and ChangesHeat TransferProperties of Matter

46.What Is Conduction?

Heat TransferProperties of Matter

47.What Is Convection and Why Does It Matter?

Heat TransferFluids

48.What Is Radiation and Why Does It Matter?

Heat TransferClimate Change and Environment

49.Radiation, Earth's Energy Balance, and the Greenhouse Effect

Heat TransferClimate Change and EnvironmentEnergy Forms and Transformations

50.What Are Greenhouse Gases and Where Do They Come From?

Climate Change and EnvironmentHeat TransferEnergy Resources and Conservation

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