Organizing Ideas

Earth Systems:

Make connections between human activity and Earth’s systems.
Analyze the interconnectedness of Earth’s systems.

Investigate conservation practices in natural and human-made areas.

Describe examples of personal actions that contribute to conservation in daily life.

Living Systems:

Find and classify examples of local plants and animals based on appearance, habitat, and structures.

Demonstrate respect when interacting with plants and animals in local environments.

Organizing Ideas

Earth Systems:

Relate impacts of natural processes and human activities on climate change.

Identify personal actions that may affect global climate change.

Describe possible effects of climate change on land, plants, humans, and other animals.

Living Systems:

Represent and connect the biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem.

Relate the preservation of various ecosystems to possible actions that address climate change.

Examine the diversity of animals and plants in grassland ecosystems.

Examine ways that plants and animals rely on each other to meet their needs.

Grade 7: Social Science – Following Confederation: Canadian Expansions

7.2 demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how the political, demographic, economic and social changes that have occurred since Confederation have presented challenges and opportunities for individuals and communities.

7.2.1 Using a grasslands lens, recognize the positive and negative aspects of immigration and migration

7.2.2 Using a grasslands lens, recognize the positive and negative consequences of political decisions

7.2.3 Using a grasslands lens, appreciate the challenges that individuals and communities face when confronted with rapid change

7.2.7 Using a grasslands lens, assess, critically, the impact of urbanization and of technology on individual and collective identities in Canada

Grade 7: Science, Unit: A Interactions and Ecosystems

1. Investigate and describe relationships between humans and their environments, identify related issues and scientific questions

• Illustrate how life-supporting environments meet the needs of living things for nutrients, energy source, moisture, suitable habitat and exchange of gases.

• Describe examples of interaction and interdependency within an ecosystem.

• Identify examples of human impact on ecosystems, investigate and analyze link between the impacts and the human wants and needs that give rise to them.

• Analyze personal and public decisions that involve consideration of environmental impacts and identify needs for scientific knowledge that can inform those decisions.

2. Trace and interpret the flow of energy and materials within an ecosystem

• Analyze ecosystem to identify biotic and abiotic components and describe interactions among these components.

• Analyze ecosystems to identify producers, consumers, and decomposers to describe how energy is supplied to and flows through a food web.

4.Describe the relations among knowledge, decisions and actions in maintaining life supporting environments

• Identify intended and unintended consequences of human activities within local and global environments.

• Analyze a local environmental issue or problem based on evidence from a variety of sources and identify possible actions and consequences.

Grade 9

Science – Unit A: Biological Diversity; Environmental Chemistry

1. Investigate and interpret diversity among species and within species, and describe how diversity contributes to species survival

• identify examples of niches

• investigate and interpret dependencies among species that link the survival of one species to the survival of others

4. Identify impacts of human action on species survival and variation within species, and analyze related issues for personal and public decision making

• describe ongoing changes in biological diversity through extinction and extirpation of native species, and investigate the role of environmental factors in causing these changes