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Discovering Science 7

This exciting resource developed specifically for the new curriculum provides solid science process skills reinforcement,engaging text and visuals, and a wide choice of easy-to-do hands-on activities to meet the needs of every learner.

Features:

- Labs and activities featuring inexpensive, easy-to-obtain materials are suited to both elementary and middle school classrooms.

- Feature photographs, locations, examples, role models, and careers.

- Reading Check features enhance students? reading comprehension.

- Ask an Elder profiles integrate Aboriginal perspectives with science content.

Table of Contents :

Discovering Science 7

- A Tour of Your Textbook

- Safety in Your Science Classroom

Unit 1 Interactions within Ecosystems

- Getting Started

- Find Out Activity: What is an Ecosystem

Chapter 1 An ecosystem is all the living and non-living things in a particular place.

- Types of Ecosystems

- Abiotic Parts of an Ecosystem

- Biotic Parts of an Ecosystem

- Chapter 1 Review

Chapter 2 Living and non-living things interact in ecosystems.

- Types of Interactions

- Roles of Organisms

- Food Chains, Food Webs, and the Transfer of Energy

- Cycles of Matter in Ecosystems

- Chapter 2 Review

Chapter 3 Natural events and human activities cause changes in ecosystems

- Natural Disturbances and Succession

- The Impact of People on Ecosystems

- Monitoring and Managing Ecosystems

- Chapter 3 Review

- Unit 1 Summary

- Unit 1 Project: Making a Garbage-Reduction Diary

- Unit 1 Integrated Research Project: Saving Endangered Spaces

- Unit 1 Review

Unit 2 Heat

- Getting Started

- Find Out Activity: Baffle Your Skin

Chapter 4 Temperature describes how hot or cold an object is.

- Describing Temperature

- Measuring Temperature

- Chapter 4 Review

Chapter 5 Scientists use the particle theory of matter to describe temperature.

- Particle Theory of Matter

- States of Matter

- Changes of State

- Chapter 5 Review

Chapter 6 Heat is transferred from one place to another by three different processes.

- Processes of Transferring Heat

- Conductors and Insulators

- Temperature versus Heat

- Chapter 6 Review

- Unit 2 Summary

- Unit 2 Project: Water Heater

- Unit 2 Integrated Research Investigation: Building Codes and Insulation

- Unit 2 Review

Unit 3 Mixtures and Solutions

- Getting Started

- Find Out Activity: Mixed or Pure?

Chapter 7 Matter can be classified as mixtures or pure substances.

- How Mixtures Are Different from Pure Substances

- Classifying Mixtures

- Chapter 7 Review

Chapter 8 Some substances dissolve to form solutions faster and more easily than others.

- Making Solutions: Solutes and Solvents

- Concentration and Solubility

- Chapter 8 Review

Chapter 9 Many useful products depend on technology for separating mixtures and solutions

- Separating Mixtures and Solutions

- Separating Mixtures from Underground

- Chapter 9 Review

- Unit 3 Summary

- Unit 3 Project: Purifying Mixtures

- Unit 3 Integrated Research Investigation: Safe, Clean Water for Everyone

- Unit 3 Review

Unit 4 Earth's Crust

- Getting Started

- Find Out Activity: What Makes a Rock a Rock?

Chapter 10 Earth's crust is made up of rocks and minerals.

- Investigating Minerals

- Investigating Rocks

- The Rock Cycle and Rock and Mineral Resources

- Chapter 10 Chapter Review

Chapter 11 Earth's crust is constantly changing.

- A Moving, Changing Crust

- How Earthquakes and Volcanoes Shape Earth's Crust

- Mountain Building and Geologic Time

- Chapter 11 Chapter Review

Chapter 12 Soil is the living component of Earth's crust.

- Weathering, Erosion, and Soil Formation

- Soil Types and Characteristics

- Sustaining Fertile Soils

- Chapter 12 Chapter Review

- Unit 4 Summary

- Unit 4 Project: Modelling Geological Processes in Your Community

- Unit 4 Integrated Research Investigation: Soil Super Stars

- Unit 4 Review

Science Skills

ScienceSkill 1 Organizing and Communicating Scientific Data

ScienceSkill 2 Designing and Conducting Experiments

ScienceSkill 3 Metric Conversion and SI Units

ScienceSkill 4 Measurement

ScienceSkill 5 Qualitative and Quantitative Observations

ScienceSkill 6 Communicating Your Lab Work in a Lab Report

ScienceSkill 7 Common Laboratory Equipment

ScienceSkill 8 Using a Microscope

ScienceSkill 9 Using Graphic Organizers

Glossary

Index

Credits



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