Curriculum - Grade 7
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Links to the Ontario Curriculum
Kids' Fish Art Contest Activities 1-7
[1]: Webs & Stacks
[2]: Know Your Fish!
[3]: Fish & Habitat Balance Mobiles
[4]: One Person's Trash (fish)...
[5]: Chinook Salmon: Too Successful?
[6]: Sketch Studies
[7]: Young Angler’s Licence Artwork
Numbers in [] following expectations refer to the activity number that will contribute to that expectation.
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Expectations for the Ontario Curriculum
Grade 7, Visual Arts
Overall Expectations
- Creating and Presenting: Apply the creative process to produce art works in variety of traditional two- and three-dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas, and understanding, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies [2/3, 6/7]
- Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing: Apply the critical analysis process to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings in response to a variety of art works and art experiences [7]
Creating and Presenting
- Create art works, using a variety of traditional forms and current media technologies, that express feelings, ideas, and issues, including opposing points of view [2/3, 6/7]
- Demonstrate an understanding of composition, using multiple principles of design and the "rule of thirds" to create a narrative art works or art works on a them or topic [2/3, 6/7]
- Use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings for a specific audience and purpose [2/3, 6/7]
- Use a variety of materials, tools, techniques, and technologies to determine solutions to increasingly complex design challenges [2/3, 6/7]
Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing
- Interpret a variety of art works and identify the feelings, issues, themes, and social concerns that they convey [7]
- Explain how the elements and principles of design are used in their own and others’ art work to communicate meaning or understanding [7]
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to read and interpret signs, symbols, and style in art works [7]
- Identify and explain their strengths, their interests, and areas for improvement as creators, interpreters, and viewers of art
Grade 7, Science and Technology
Understanding Life Systems – Interactions in the Environment
Overall Expectations
- Assess the impacts of human activities and technologies on the environment, and evaluate ways of controlling these impacts [1, 2, 4, 5]
- Investigate interactions within the environment, and identify factors that affect the balance between different components of an ecosystem [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
- Demonstrate an understanding of interactions between and among biotic and abiotic elements in the environment [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
Relating Science and Technology to Society and the Environment
- Assess the impact of selected technologies on the environment [5]
Developing Investigation and Communication Skills
- Use scientific inquiry/research skills to investigate occurrences that affect the balance within a local ecosystem [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
- Use appropriate science and technology vocabulary in oral and written communication [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
Understanding Basic Concepts
- Demonstrate an understanding of an ecosystem as a system of interactions between living organisms and their environment [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
- Identify biotic and abiotic elements in ecosystem, and describe the interactions between them [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
- Describe the roles and interactions of producers, consumers, and decomposers within an ecosystem [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
- Describe the transfer of energy in a food chain and explain the effects of the elimination of any part of the chain [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
- Explain why an ecosystem is limited in the number of living things [1, 2, 4, 5]
- Describe ways in which human activities and technologies alter balances and interactions in the environment [1, 2/3, 4, 5]
Grade 7, Geography
Natural Resources
Overall Expectations
- Describe how humans acquire, manage, and use natural resources, and identify factors that affect the importance of those resources [5]
- Describe positive and negative ways in which human activity can affect resource sustainability and the health of the environment [2, 5]
Knowledge and Understanding
- Describe a variety of ways in which people use and manage renewable, non-renewable, and flow of resources to meet their needs [4, 5]
- Identify patterns in the distribution and use of natural resources throughout the world [4, 5]
- Describe ways in which technology has affected our use of natural resources (e.g., with respect to their discovery, management, extraction, processing, and marketing) [5]
- Describe the economic importance of natural resources to a particular country [4, 5]
Application
- Present and defend a point of view on how a resource should be used [4]
Grade 7, Mathematics
Number Sense and Numeration
Overall Expectations
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Demonstrate an understanding of addition and subtraction of fractions and integers, and apply a variety of computational strategies to solve problems involving whole numbers and decimal numbers [1]
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Demonstrate an understanding of proportional relationships using percent, ratio, and rate [5]
Operational Sense
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Solve problems involving the multiplication and division of decimal numbers to thousandths by one-digit whole numbers, using a variety of tools (e.g., concrete materials, drawings, calculators) and strategies (e.g., estimation, algorithms) [1, 5]
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Solve multi-step problems arising from real-life context and involving whole numbers and decimals, using a variety of tools (e.g., concrete materials, drawings, calculators) and strategies (e.g., estimation, algorithms) [1]
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Evaluate expressions that involve whole numbers and decimals, including expressions that contain brackets, using order of operations [1]
Proportional Relationships
- Solve problems that involve determining whole number percents, using a variety of tools [5]
Measurement
Measurement Relationships
- Solve problems that require conversion between metric units of measure [1]
Data Management and Probability
Overall Expectations
- Make and evaluate convincing arguments, based on the analysis of data [5]
Collection and Organization of Data
- Identify bias in data collection methods [5]
Data Relationships
- Read, interpret, and draw conclusions from primary data and from secondary data presented in charts, tables, and graphs [5]
- Identify and describe trends, based on the distribution of the data presented in tables and graphs, using informal language
- Make inferences and convincing arguments that are based on the analysis of charts, tables and graphs [5]
