Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Analyse some challenges and opportunities presented by the physical environment and ways in which people have responded to them
- Resource Towns (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Built to Outlast (article, WPL Databases)
- Five Big Questions About the Amazon Rainforest (article, WPL Databases)
- Irrigation Methods, A Quick Look (article, U.S. Geological Survey)
- Flood Control (encyclopedia entry, WPL Databases)
Use the geographic inquiry process to investigate the impact of natural events and/or human activities that change the physical environment, exploring the impact from a geographic perspective
- Disaster Proof (article, WPL Databases)
- Understanding Sea Level Rise (video, YouTube)
- Soil Erosion and Degradation (article, World Wildlife Fund)
- Introduction to GIS (article, National Geographic)
- A–Z Maps Online – Geology Maps (online thematic maps, WPL Database)
- Climate Time Machine (interactive maps, NASA)
- Climate Graphs (video, YouTube)
Demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns in Earth’s physical features and of some natural processes and human activities that create and change those features
- By Land or By Sea (article, WPL Databases)
- Types of Landforms (interactive resource, Mocomi)
- Mountains (article, National Geographic)
- Tectonic Forces (video, YouTube)
- El Niño and La Niña Explained (video, YouTube)
- Glaciation (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Reclamation (article, WPL Databases)