Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Analyse some challenges and opportunities presented by the physical environment and ways in which people have responded to them;
- Climate Change (Book)
- Conservation (Book)
- The Landscape (Book)
- Drought and Heat Wave Alert! (Book)
- Floods, Droughts and Climate Change (Book)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Book)
- Journey Into the Rainforest (Book)
- Built to Out Last (Database article)
- Five Big Questions About the Amazon Rainforest (Database article)
- Flood Control (Database article)
- Irrigation Methods: A Quick Look (Website)
- Resource Towns in Canada (Website)
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;
- Tsunamis (Book)
- Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and Other Natural Disasters (Book)
- Depleted & Contaminated Soil and Your Food Supply (Book)
- The Atlas of the Oceans (Book)
- Scholastic Canada Atlas of the World (Book)
- Disaster Proof: In These Four Extreme Labs, Engineers Learn How to Protect People from Natural Disasters (Database article)
- Climate Graphs (YouTube)
- Rising Tides: Understanding Sea Level Rise (YouTube)
- Soil Erosion and Degradation (Website)
- Introduction to GIS (Website)
- Climate Time Machine (Website)
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.
- Introducing Landforms (Book)
- Prairie Explorer (Book)
- Mountains (Book)
- Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Climate Change (Book)
- About Our World: Forest, Grassland, Marsh, Tropical Rainforest and Environment, Climate, Soil, Air (DVD)
- Landforms (Hoopla eBook)
- Nothing on Earth (Hoopla eVideo)
- By Land or By Sea (Database article)
- Reclamation (Database article)
- Tectonic Forces (YouTube)
- El Niño and La Niña Explained (YouTube)
- Types of Landforms (Website)
- Mountains (Website)
- Glaciation (Website)