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Science and Technology

How to Use These Resources

TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.

Curriculum Overview

Science is a way of knowing which seeks to describe and explain the natural and physical world. An important aspect is making connections between skills and concepts, and the practical applications of science and technology, and learning about life systems, matter and energy, structures and mechanisms, and Earth and space systems. Students develop important scientific literacy and technological skills that will enable them to thrive in today's rapidly changing world, their future professional and personal lives, and to become active problem solvers in their communities. As students engage in STEM education, they develop transferrable skills that they need to meet the demands of today's global economy and society, and to become scientifically and technologically literate citizens.

The science and technology curriculum is divided into five strands:

  • STEM Skills and Connections
  • Life Systems: Interactions in the Environment  
  • Matter and Energy: Pure Substances and Mixtures
  • Structures and Mechanisms: Form, Function, and Design of Structures
  • Earth and Space Systems: Heat in the Environment

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Learning Activities

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities
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Resources for Learning

Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.

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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.

Apply the Learning

Choose from the following to consolidate learning across all curriculum strands.

  • Using a graphic organizer (table, chart. etc), outlining your ideas about how the Great Lakes Ecosystem is in peril.
  • Craft your own news story about the environment and act it out as a skit.
  • Research how female Canadian scientists are helping the climate change situation and produce a one-page report summarizing your findings.
  • Write a reflection on how your understanding of trash has changed and then, make a poster on how to properly dispose of pure substances and mixtures.
  • Write a reflection on how your understanding of trash has changed and then, make a poster on how to properly dispose of pure substances and mixtures.
  • How have alternative forms of energy changed since the 1990s? What impacts can be observed today? Write a short simulated blog post on your thoughts.
  • Create your own definitions for 20 of the words in the vocabulary list.

Vocabulary

Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.

Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.

abiotic  

adaptations

biodegradable  

biome  

biosphere  

biotic  

carnivore 

community 

consumer 

decomposer

ecosystem  

food chain  

food web  

habitat  

herbivore

micro-organism

population 

producer  

species 

succession

concentrated

dilute

dissolve

distillation

filtration

homogeneous

heterogeneous

insoluble

manufactured

products

mechanical mixture

particle theory

pollutant

pure substance

raw material saturated

soluble

solute

solution

solvent

unsaturated

WHMIS symbols

force
frame structures
friction
gravity
magnitude
plane of application
point of application
shell structures
solid structures
stability
structure
symmetry

condensation
contraction
convection
conduction
evaporation
expansion
freezing
gas
heat energy
heat capacity
heat transfer
insulator
liquid
melting
particle theory
radiation
solid
states of matter
sublimation
temperature
thermometer