Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Assess the costs and benefits of technologies that reduce heat loss or heat-related impacts on the environment.
- Economics of Energy series (ebook – Hoopla)
- Green Matters: Climate Change (evideo – Kanopy)
- Physics Energy Heat Transfer: Insulating the Home (evideo – YouTube)
- What are the Environmental Benefits of Solar Energy? (evideo – YouTube)
- Global Warming (ebook – WPL database)
- A Guide to the Energy of the Earth (evideo – YouTube)
- CBSE: Impact of Energy Consumption on Environment (evideo – YouTube)
- Causes and Effects of Climate Change (evideo – YouTube)
Investigate ways in which heat changes substances, and describe how heat is transferred.
- Heat (ebook – Hoopla)
- Heat (evideo – Kanopy)
- Pressure, Heat, and Temperature (ebook – Hoopla)
- Investigating Heat (ebook – WPL database)
- Heat (evideo – Kanopy)
- Heat Transfer by Convection, Radiation, and Conduction (evideo – Kanopy)
- Thermal Expansion and Contraction of Solids, Liquids, and Gases (evideo – YouTube)
- Reducing Heat Transfers (online resource – BBC Bitesize)
- Elementary Heat Transfer Experiments (online resource – Sciencing)
- Janice VanCleave’s Physics for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments (ebook – WPL database)
- Energy (ebook – Hoopla)
- Science Projects: How to Keep Ice from Melting (online resource – Sciencing)
- Convection and Conduction (article – WPL database)
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.
- Energy (ebook – Hoopla)
- Energy (ebook – WPL database)
- Thermal Expansion of Solids, Liquids, and Gases (online resource – BBC Bitesize)
- Green Matters: Global Warming (evideo – Kanopy)
- What is Heat? A Brief Introduction at the Particle Level (evideo – YouTube)
- Heat Energy (online resource – Science Learning Hub)
- Temperature Affects Density (online resource – Middle School Chemistry)
- Science Project: The Effect of Temperature of Liquids (online resource – Sciencing)
- Thermal Conduction, Convection, and Radiation (evideo – YouTube)
- Matter and Heat (evideo – Kanopy)
- How Materials Respond to Heat (evideo – Kanopy)
- Relationship of Pressure with Volume and Temperature (evideo – YouTube)
- GCSE: Heat Transfer – Radiation (evideo – YouTube)
- Beneficial & Hazardous Effects of Solar Radiation (online resource – Sciencing)
- What is the Greenhouse Effect? (evideo – YouTube)
- What is the Greenhouse Effect? (online resource – NASA: Climate Kids)