BC - Grades 6 & 7 Science - FULL YEAR BUNDLE - UPDATED

FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 6 & 7! PDF AND GOOGLE SLIDE VERSIONS BOTH INCLUDED!

BC Science Curriculum - Grades 6 & 7. This product was created to cover all of the expectations in the BC Science Grades 6 & 7 curriculum.

There are 1060+ activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the science curriculum. This massive unit contains readings, research assignments, diagrams, true/false, and much more!

We have added STEM activities as well as hands on experiments for students to learn the content in the curriculum.

Check out the previews of these units to learn more about how it can benefit your students. We know you will love this no-prep, just print or upload to Google, time-saving resource!

Grade 6

Body Systems

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are body systems?
• Nervous system reading and questions
• Nervous system diagram
• Experiment – ruler drop
• Optical illusions - reading and activity
• Experiment – performing and creating an optical illusion
• Research your own optical illusion
• Optical illusion – mirages
• Stroke affecting the nervous system
• Epilepsy affecting the nervous system
• Nervous system and paralysis
• Experiment – paralysis
• Female reproductive system – reading and diagram
• Male reproductive system – reading and diagram
• Hormonal system
• Hormones – adrenaline
• Hormones – insulin
• Diabetes – type 1 and type 2 diabetes
• Excretory system – diagram and reading
• Common disease – urinary tract infection
• First People’s understanding of body systems
• Interrelations between systems
• Parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system – how they affect other body systems
• Nervous systems interacting with the excretory, reproductive, and hormonal system
• Activities – word search and word scramble
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Mixtures

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are mixtures?
• Homogeneous mixtures versus heterogeneous mixtures
• Activity – classifying homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures
• Experiment – making homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures
• Mechanical mixtures – solids mixing with solids, liquids and solids, gas and solids, etc.
• Solutions
• Solutes and solvents
• Heterogeneous suspensions
• Experiment – creating a heterogeneous suspensions
• Heterogeneous colloids
• Examples of heterogeneous colloids
• Experiment – creating a heterogeneous colloids
• Heterogeneous emulsions
• Examples of heterogeneous emulsions
• What is an emulsifier?
• Experiment – creating a heterogeneous emulsions
• Differences between suspensions, colloids, and emulsions
• Separating mixtures
• Sedimentation – Roman Aqueducts and settling sections
• Deltas – silt deposits
• PRP injections – centrifugation separation method
• Experiment – separating mixtures
• Research – filters, settling, centrifuge, sieves, funnels, sublimination
• First People’s separation and extraction methods
• Total dissolved solids (TDS) in drinking water
• Experiment – making a water filter
• Refining oil – separating fuels using fractional distillation method
• Oil spills – separating oil and water to clean up oil spills
• Oil spills in Indigenous communities
• Coding activity – cleaning up oil spills
• Impact of separating mixtures on the environment – maple syrup
• Activities – word search and word scramble
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Forces and Motion

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Forces – push and pull
• External forces acting on objects – contact and non-contact forces
• Non-contact forces – magnetism, electrostatic, and gravity
• Gravity – a pulling force
• Experiment – dropping different shaped objects and objects with different masses
• Experiment – Egg Drop
• Magnetism – using magnetic force to move a car
• Frictional force – static friction, rolling friction, and sliding friction
• Experiment – friction car ramp
• Experiment – frictional force power
• Contact forces – muscular force and spring force
• Balanced and unbalanced forces
• Examples of balanced and unbalanced forces in our lives
• Force diagrams – deciding which direction the object will move
• Calculating the net force acting on an object
• Objects changing direction – sports
• Newton’s First Law of Motion
• Experiment – demonstrating the First Law of Motion
• Inertia – reading and questions
• Experiment – demonstrating inertia
• Story – Prince George, the Scientist demonstrating the First Law of Motion
• Assignment – writing your own story about the First Law of Motion
• Newton’s Second Law of Motion
• Experiment – demonstrating the Second Law of Motion
• Newton’s Third Law of Motion
• Experiment – Balloon car – two activities
• Activities – word search and word scramble
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Space

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Universe, Solar System, Galaxies, Planets
• Diagram of our Solar System
• Size of the Universe, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy
• Classifying planets – gas giants and terrestrial planets
• Characteristics of gas giants
• Characteristics of terrestrial planets
• Assignment – planet profile
• What is the habitable zone?
• Potential life in our universe – Life on Mars, Kepler 186f, Europa: a moon of Jupiter
• Natural Satellites – moons
• Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt
• Meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids
• Identifying celestial bodies
• Gravity – reading and science experiment
• Mass versus weight – activity, reading, and experiment
• Constellations – stars in our galaxy
• The Aurora Borealis – First Peoples’ Perspective
• Haida perspective – Creation story involving the aurora borealis
• Indigenous constellation story – Great Bear Hunt (Mista Muskwa)
• Experiment – creating constellations on geoboards
• Conception of the Earth – Flat Earth, Geo-Centred Theory, and Sun-Centred Theory
• Day and night – Earth’s axis and rotation
• Day and night around the world – research assignment
• Experiment – making a sundial
• Seasons – Earth’s orbit around the Sun
• Moons in our solar system – research assignment
• Phases of the moons – reading and experiment
• Ocean tides – lunar and solar tides
• Celestial objects visible in the night sky
• Canada and space exploration – technologies created by Canadians
• Space – extreme environment – temperature, zero gravity, air pressure
• Surviving in space – technologies needed
• Benefits of space exploration – using satellites
• Understanding climate change using space technologies – satellite images
• Mars Rovers – reading and research activity
• Controversy of space travel – downsides (dangerous and costly)
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Grade 7

Product 1: Evolution - Plants and Animals

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Organisms, species, and communities
• What is biodiversity?
• What are ecosystems?
• Basic needs of living things – plants and animals
• Terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems
• Biotic factors in ecosystems
• Abiotic factors in ecosystems
• Activity – building a birdhouse
• Investigation – Tree rings
• STEM Assignment – Designing a zoo enclosure that allows your zoo animal to survive
• Experiment – Ecosystems in a Bottle
• Ecosystems – biotic and abiotic limiting factors
• Altering the food chain – Example: DDT used in Borneo
• Overfishing effects on food chain
• Extinction
• Genetic variation – biodiversity within species
• Adapting species – different coloured animals
• Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest
• Darwin’s Finches
• Genetic Variation = Evolution
• Changing species – different bears in different geographical regions
• Researching genetic variations in bats
• Evolution of whales – from Pakicetus to modern whales
• Earth’s changing environments – climate change, geographical changes (Pangea), and changes in our atmosphere
• Ice Age – Adapting species and evolution
• Research assignment – Ice Age animals
• What is speciation – examples of speciation
• Agriculture – variation within species
• Selective breeding in agriculture – GMO
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Product 2: Elements and Compounds

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Particle theory of matter
• Atoms, molecules, and pure substances
• What are atoms?
• Activity – atom or molecule
• Drawing atoms
• What are compounds?
• Forming compounds – bonding (ionic bonds and covalent bonds)
• What are pure substances?
• Properties of pure substances – describing different pure substances
• Properties of water
• Mixtures
• Classifying matter as mixtures or pure substances
• Homogenous and heterogenous mixtures
• Solutions
• Solutes and solvents
• Universal solvent – water
• Factors affecting solubility
• Solutions – concentration and dilution
• Saturation – unsaturated substances and supersaturated substances
• Arrangement of atoms/molecules
• Crystalline structure and amorphous solids
• Crystalline structure of a snowflake
• Crystalline structure of rock candy
• Experiment – making rock candy
• Experiment – making a supersaturated solution – forming crystals
• Chemical versus physical changes to matter
• Evidence of chemical changes
• Experiment – creating a chemical reaction using vinegar and baking soda
• What are chemical reactions?
• Types of chemical reactions – synthesis, decomposition, single replacement and double replacement
• Research assignment – chemical reactions
• Assignment – performing a chemical reaction
• Chemistry and automation
• STEM Assignment – making a cough medicine
• Activities – word scramble and word search
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities
  

Product 3: Electricity and Electromagnetism

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is electricity?
• Electrical devices we use
• Electrostatic force
• Static electricity and current electricity
• Dangers of static electricity and current electricity
• Experiment – Creating static electricity
• How electricity works
• Dangers of short circuits
• Generating electricity – turbines and generators
• Conducting materials and insulating materials
• Lab experiment – conductors vs insulators
• Simple electrical circuits
• Reading circuit diagrams
• Drawing circuit diagrams
• Components of simple electrical circuits
• Activities – creating series circuits and parallel circuits
• Experiment – testing battery power
• Series vs parallel circuits
• Experiment – creating a model that produces electricity (potato battery)
• Electromagnetic forces
• Lab experiment – creating an electromagnet
• Transforming electricity into other forms of energy (heat, sound, and mechanical energy)
• Transforming electricity – the electric bell
• Electromagnetism and turbines (mechanical energy)
• Renewable vs non-renewable forms of energy
• Impacts of using electricity – downsides of different sources of electricity (solar, nuclear, wind, hydro, geothermal)
• How solar, nuclear, wind, and hydro energy transform into electricity
• Research assignment – the James Bay Hydroelectric Project
• Measuring electricity in our homes
• Reading energy efficient labels – household appliances
• Evaluating your use of electricity – making a plan to reduce usage
• Binary code – computer language for electronics
• Remote controls using binary code
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities
  

Product 4: Climate Change and Changing Earth

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is geology?
• How do rocks form?
• Overview of the rock cycle
• Sudden versus gradual changes to the Earth
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition
• Sudden changes to Earth – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and landslides
• What is the geological time scale?
• Paleozoic Era
• Mesozoic Era
• Cenozoic Era
• Research assignment – characteristics of each era and time period
• Dating fossils – relative dating: superposition theory
• Dating fossils – absolute dating: carbon dating
• Experiment – making fossils
• History of the Earth – Continental Drift Theory: Pangaea
• What is climate change?
• How does climate change affect biodiversity?
• Climate change and melting glaciers
• Effects of melting glaciers
• Human activities creating greenhouse gases
• Assignment – melting glaciers infographic
• Greenhouse gas effect
• Experiment – creating a model of the greenhouse gas effect
• Greenhouse gas emissions by countries around the world
• Carbon capture technologies
• Experiment – carbon dioxide effects on the planet
• What is sustainability?
• Sustainable practices
• Unsustainable practices – clearcutting forests, livestock practices, fertilizers and pesticides
• Infographics – deforestation
• Waste and the world – beyond the three R’s (refuse, repair, regift, recover or rot)
• Climate changes in history – Ice Age, Snowball Earth, Formation of the Earth
• Extinction events
• Indigenous groups and the environment
• Indigenous practices promoting sustainability – crop rotation, intercropping, and agroforestry
• Seventh Generation Principle – Indigenous methods of sustainability
• Invasive species affect on biodiversity – European rabbits in BC and zebra mussels
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

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