BC Grade 7 Science - Full Year Bundle - NEWLY UPDATED

NEWLY UPDATED IN 2023! BOTH PDF AND GOOGLE SLIDES VERSIONS INCLUDED!

This product was created to cover the British Columbia (BC) 2016 Science Curriculum - Grade 7.

There are 585+ activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the science curriculum. This massive unit contains readings, research assignments, diagrams, true/false, and much more!

We have added STEM activities as well as hands on experiments for students to learn the content in the curriculum.

Product 1: Evolution - Plants and Animals

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Organisms, species, and communities
• What is biodiversity?
• What are ecosystems?
• Basic needs of living things – plants and animals
• Terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems
• Biotic factors in ecosystems
• Abiotic factors in ecosystems
• Activity – building a birdhouse
• Investigation – Tree rings
• STEM Assignment – Designing a zoo enclosure that allows your zoo animal to survive
• Experiment – Ecosystems in a Bottle
• Ecosystems – biotic and abiotic limiting factors
• Altering the food chain – Example: DDT used in Borneo
• Overfishing effects on food chain
• Extinction
• Genetic variation – biodiversity within species
• Adapting species – different coloured animals
• Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest
• Darwin’s Finches
• Genetic Variation = Evolution
• Changing species – different bears in different geographical regions
• Researching genetic variations in bats
• Evolution of whales – from Pakicetus to modern whales
• Earth’s changing environments – climate change, geographical changes (Pangea), and changes in our atmosphere
• Ice Age – Adapting species and evolution
• Research assignment – Ice Age animals
• What is speciation – examples of speciation
• Agriculture – variation within species
• Selective breeding in agriculture – GMO
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Product 2: Elements and Compounds

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Particle theory of matter
• Atoms, molecules, and pure substances
• What are atoms?
• Activity – atom or molecule
• Drawing atoms
• What are compounds?
• Forming compounds – bonding (ionic bonds and covalent bonds)
• What are pure substances?
• Properties of pure substances – describing different pure substances
• Properties of water
• Mixtures
• Classifying matter as mixtures or pure substances
• Homogenous and heterogenous mixtures
• Solutions
• Solutes and solvents
• Universal solvent – water
• Factors affecting solubility
• Solutions – concentration and dilution
• Saturation – unsaturated substances and supersaturated substances
• Arrangement of atoms/molecules
• Crystalline structure and amorphous solids
• Crystalline structure of a snowflake
• Crystalline structure of rock candy
• Experiment – making rock candy
• Experiment – making a supersaturated solution – forming crystals
• Chemical versus physical changes to matter
• Evidence of chemical changes
• Experiment – creating a chemical reaction using vinegar and baking soda
• What are chemical reactions?
• Types of chemical reactions – synthesis, decomposition, single replacement and double replacement
• Research assignment – chemical reactions
• Assignment – performing a chemical reaction
• Chemistry and automation
• STEM Assignment – making a cough medicine
• Activities – word scramble and word search
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities
  

Product 3: Electricity and Electromagnetism

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is electricity?
• Electrical devices we use
• Electrostatic force
• Static electricity and current electricity
• Dangers of static electricity and current electricity
• Experiment – Creating static electricity
• How electricity works
• Dangers of short circuits
• Generating electricity – turbines and generators
• Conducting materials and insulating materials
• Lab experiment – conductors vs insulators
• Simple electrical circuits
• Reading circuit diagrams
• Drawing circuit diagrams
• Components of simple electrical circuits
• Activities – creating series circuits and parallel circuits
• Experiment – testing battery power
• Series vs parallel circuits
• Experiment – creating a model that produces electricity (potato battery)
• Electromagnetic forces
• Lab experiment – creating an electromagnet
• Transforming electricity into other forms of energy (heat, sound, and mechanical energy)
• Transforming electricity – the electric bell
• Electromagnetism and turbines (mechanical energy)
• Renewable vs non-renewable forms of energy
• Impacts of using electricity – downsides of different sources of electricity (solar, nuclear, wind, hydro, geothermal)
• How solar, nuclear, wind, and hydro energy transform into electricity
• Research assignment – the James Bay Hydroelectric Project
• Measuring electricity in our homes
• Reading energy efficient labels – household appliances
• Evaluating your use of electricity – making a plan to reduce usage
• Binary code – computer language for electronics
• Remote controls using binary code
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities
  

Product 4: Climate Change and Changing Earth

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is geology?
• How do rocks form?
• Overview of the rock cycle
• Sudden versus gradual changes to the Earth
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition
• Sudden changes to Earth – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and landslides
• What is the geological time scale?
• Paleozoic Era
• Mesozoic Era
• Cenozoic Era
• Research assignment – characteristics of each era and time period
• Dating fossils – relative dating: superposition theory
• Dating fossils – absolute dating: carbon dating
• Experiment – making fossils
• History of the Earth – Continental Drift Theory: Pangaea
• What is climate change?
• How does climate change affect biodiversity?
• Climate change and melting glaciers
• Effects of melting glaciers
• Human activities creating greenhouse gases
• Assignment – melting glaciers infographic
• Greenhouse gas effect
• Experiment – creating a model of the greenhouse gas effect
• Greenhouse gas emissions by countries around the world
• Carbon capture technologies
• Experiment – carbon dioxide effects on the planet
• What is sustainability?
• Sustainable practices
• Unsustainable practices – clearcutting forests, livestock practices, fertilizers and pesticides
• Infographics – deforestation
• Waste and the world – beyond the three R’s (refuse, repair, regift, recover or rot)
• Climate changes in history – Ice Age, Snowball Earth, Formation of the Earth
• Extinction events
• Indigenous groups and the environment
• Indigenous practices promoting sustainability – crop rotation, intercropping, and agroforestry
• Seventh Generation Principle – Indigenous methods of sustainability
• Invasive species affect on biodiversity – European rabbits in BC and zebra mussels
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

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