Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Analyse personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that need to be considered in designing and building structures and devices.
- The Human Made World (ebook – WPL database)
- Intro to Engineering (online resource – National Geographic)
- Key Discoveries in Engineering and Design (ebook – Hoopla)
- Design Thinking (ebook – Hoopla)
- Mechanical Engineering (article – The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Urban Design (article – The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Industrial Design (article – The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Innovations in Everyday Technology (ebook – WPL database)
- Innovations in Communication (ebook – WPL database)
- Innovations in Transportation (ebook – WPL database)
- Innovations in Health (ebook – WPL database)
- Innovations in Entertainment (ebook – WPL database)
- Basic Structural Principles and Elements (evideo – YouTube)
Design and construct a variety of structures, and investigate the relationship between the design and function of these structures and the forces that act on them.
- Teen Engineers Tackle Turbines (ebook – WPL database)
- Industrial Design (ebook – Hoopla)
- Design a Better World series (ebook – Hoopla)
- Engineering Units and Lessons for Grades 6-9 (online resource – NASA)
- Cool Structures (ebook – Hoopla)
- Recreate Machine Innovations (ebook – WPL database)
- How to Build Aircraft (ebook – WPL database)
- How to Build Cars (ebook – WPL database)
- Structures and Forces (evideo – YouTube)
- How to Build a Strong and Stable Structure (online resource – Sciencing)
Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between structural forms and the forces that act on and within them.
- Stone Age Science: Buildings and Structures (ebook – WPL database)
- Centre of Gravity (online resource – NASA)
- What is Centre of Mass? (online resource – Khan Academy)
- Fairly Fundamental Facts about Forces and Structures (online resource – Teach Engineering)
- Reasons for Structural Failures (online resource – Bright Hub)
- Stone Age Science: Materials (ebook – WPL database)
- Engineering Design Project Guide (online resource – Science Buddies)
- Types of Structures (online resource – EdQuest)
- Form and Function (online resource – Mrs. Badder)
- 11 Characteristics of Sustainable Materials (online resource – Simplicable)