Grade 7 Science and Technology

Biodiversity Performs! - Learn more about some of the "secret services" that ecosystems and the species within them provide. This activity is adapted from the World Wildlife Fund's "Biodiversity Basics"--a teaching module for middle school educators focused on biodiversity.

Footprints: Environment and the Way We Live Discover part of the National Film Board of Canada's collection that documents the relationship between environmental questions and the social and cultural lives of Canadians. (version française)

Math Hunt Game - Rainforest - explore five web sites about this fascinating environment. At each stop use the facts you find to solve a math question.

Build-A-Prairie - Can you turn a barren plain into a healthy prairie? - developed by Bell LIVE! and Educational Web Adventures

What's It Like Where You Live? The Missouri Botanical Garden's web site on habitats, biomes and ecosystems.

Earth on Edge - Ecosystems - from the PBS program - includes the following ecosystems; Agro, Forest, Freshwater, Grassland, Coastal, Urban

Living Things Divided into sections on "Individuals", "Families", "Neighbourhoods" and "The Circle of Life"

THE GREENS - a site for kids about looking after the planet. Explore green living - sustainability, ecology, environmental care and social equity (from PBS)

Welcome to Recycle City! "There's lots to do here - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste. When you leave this place you'll leave knowing much more about what you can do to help protect the environment."

Why Composting? Composting is a topic of growing interest in schools throughout the country.

Household Waste - waste management in the "household ecosystem" - from the American EPA and Perdue University

Pure Substances and Mixtures

What are Materials Made Of? The e-source is split into 4 units: 1. Solids, liquids and gases 2. When materials mix 3. Separating material mixtures 4. Elements and compounds

Heat

Energy (Heat and Temperature) - Topics include Convection, Conduction and Radiation; How atoms and molecules are affected by heat; Real-life applications and examples (by a Science teacher at Mansfield Middle School, Connecticut.)

Heat: An Agent of Change - a NASA science module about heat and its effects on space flight - teacher's guides and student support materials

Boil Water with Shockwave A controlled, water heating experiment without a lab or hot plates!! Run this experiment, changing the water amount, the starting water temperature, and/or the heating power. Enter how long you think it will take to boil the water. The accuracy of your guess, as a percentage of the actual time, will be displayed.

Structural Strength and Stability

Super Bridge (from NOVA Online) How would you span a freeway? A canyon? A river? Or an ocean waterway? Learn about the four major types of bridges and then test your knowledge by matching the right bridge to the right location.
A web-based student learning activity using this web site.

Building Big Explore large structures and what it takes to build them. Try your hand at the interactive engineering labs. Take on the challenges of building big.

Build a Tipi! In this Science Alberta Foundation resource, a young First Nations girl explains the steps involved in erecting a Cree tipi. With the girl’s coaching, students select materials, place poles, and insert stakes leading to the completion of the tipi.

The Great Buildings Collection documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, plus commentaries, bibliographies, and web links, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.

The Earth's Crust

Dynamic Earth an interactive Web site where you can learn about the structure of the earth, the movements of its tectonic plates, as well as the forces that create mountains, valleys, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

Virtual Earthquake is an interactive computer program designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake "epicenter" is located and how the "Richter magnitude" of an earthquake is determined.

Volcanoes of Canada - Natural Resources Canada - Canada has examples of almost every type of volcano. Although none are erupting now, at least 3 did in the last few hundred years and numerous others have the potential to erupt in the near future. (version française)

Riverdeep EarthScience Center - an online scientific research center for studying information about and gaining understanding of the major physical events that impact our changing Earth.

Fossils Cyber-Display from the Discovery Centre of the ROM

Soil School - from Soil-Net.com, an environmental Internet resource providing teachers and students extensive curriculum-based information about soil.

Utah Soils - simple explanations on various soil topics such as what soils are, how they are formed, and the different soil horizons