Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Assess the costs and benefits of technologies that reduce heat loss or heat-related impacts on the environment;
- Global Warming (Book)
- Hydropower (Book)
- Solar And Geothermal Energy (Book)
- Earth In The Hot Seat: Bulletins From A Warming World (Book)
- Green Matters: Climate Change (Kanopy eVideo)
- Physics | Energy | Heat Transfer | Insulating the Home (YouTube)
- What are the Environmental Benefits of Solar Energy? (YouTube)
- A Guide to the Energy of the Earth (YouTube)
- Causes and Effects of Climate Change | National Geographic (YouTube)
Investigate ways in which heat changes substances, and describe how heat is transferred;
- Heat And Energy (Book)
- Heating (Book)
- ChemLab: Heat And Combustion (Book)
- Forms Of Energy (Book)
- Energy (Book)
- Heat (Hoopla eBook)
- Pressure, Heat, and Temperature (Hoopla eBook)
- Energy (Hoopla eBook)
- Janice VanCleave’s Physics for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments (Database article)
- Heat (Kanopy eVideo)
- Heat (Kanopy eVideo)
- Heat Transfer by Convection, Radiation, and Conduction (Kanopy eVideo)
- Thermal Expansion and Contraction of Solids, Liquids, and Gases (YouTube)
- Conduction, Convention, Radiation – Reducing Heat Transfers (Website)
- Elementary Heat Transfer Experiments (Website)
- Science Projects: How to Keep Ice from Melting (Website)
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.
- Heat Fundamentals: Funtastic Science Activities For Kids (Book)
- Science Projects about Temperature and Heat (Book)
- Harnessing Power From The Sun (Book)
- Melting, Freezing, And Boiling Science Projects With Matter (Book)
- States Of Matter (Book)
- ChemLab: Gases, Liquids And Solids (Book)
- Energy (Hoopla eBook)
- Matter and Heat (Kanopy)
- How Materials Respond to Heat (Kanopy eVideo)
- Green Matters: Global Warming (Kanopy eVideo)
- What is the Greenhouse Effect? (YouTube)
- What is Heat? A Brief Introduction at the Particle Level (YouTube)
- Thermal Conduction, Convection, and Radiation (YouTube)
- Relationship of Pressure with Volume and Temperature (YouTube)
- Heat Transfer | Radiation (YouTube)
- Thermal Expansion of Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Website)
- Heat Energy (Website)
- Temperature Affects Density (Website)
- Science Project: The Effects of Temperature of Liquids (Website)
- Beneficial & Hazardous Effects of Solar Radiation (Website)
- What is the Greenhouse Effect? (Website)