UNDERSTANDING LIFE SYSTEMS: INTERACTIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENT
1. assess the impacts of human activities and technologies on the
environment, and evaluate ways of controlling these impacts;
2. investigate interactions within the environment, and identify factors
that affect the balance between different components of an ecosystem;
3. demonstrate an understanding of interactions between and among biotic and
abiotic elements in the environment.
UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS: FORM AND FUNCTION
1. analyse personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that need
to be considered in designing and building structures and devices;
2. design and construct a variety of structures, and investigate the
relationship between the design and function of these structures and the
forces that act on them;
3. demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between structural forms
and the forces that act on and within them.
UNDERSTANDING MATTER AND ENERGY: PURE SUBSTANCES AND MIXTURES
1. evaluate the social and environmental impacts of the use and disposal of
pure substances and mixtures;
2. investigate the properties and applications of pure substances and
mixtures;
3. demonstrate an understanding of the properties of pure substances and
mixtures, and describe these characteristics using the particle theory.
UNDERSTANDING EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS: HEAT IN THE ENVIRONMENT
1. assess the costs and benefits of technologies that reduce heat loss or
heat-related impacts on the environment;
2. investigate ways in which heat changes substances, and describe how heat
is transferred;
3. demonstrate an understanding of heat as a form of energy that is
associated with the movement of particles and is essential to many processes
within the earth’s systems.
ASSESSMENT / EVALUATION
- Observations
- Investigations
- Quizzes & Tests
TEXTBOOK
Pearson Education Canada
Investigating Science & Technology 7
ISBN 0132080044