interactions & Ecosystems

I teach this AFTER the plants unit so we start the year with an indoor garden

Unit Outline and Notes

Science 7 Eng Ecosystems Unit Notes

Activities & lessons

Little Inventors Environment Challenges
Sorting garbage - Sort our your classroom garbage, or do it with laminated pictures and a poster and local sorting guide
Garbage free lunch challenge
Ecological footprint calculator and brainstorm 3Rs
Water cycle in a bag lab
Water pollution and clean up lab
Food chains with the owl pellet lab
Food chain and bioaccumulation games (adaptations too!)
Symbiosis TPT or this card game
Endangered Species
- - research poster/video/etc
  - Crocodile Hunter videos
Ecosystmes in the classroom
- - Skype in the classroom:
  - Exploring by the Seat of your Pants
  - Smithsonian
  - Future Energy Systems: University of Alberta
Ecological succession - TV show Life After People. (min 23)
CPAWS resources
First Nations Metis Inuit Perspective - Respect of the earth, balance, our role in the ecosystem.
- - - See these water resources with great videos.
    - Walking Together - traditional environmental knowledge

Mrs Arsenault has amazing resources online for teaching Plants and Ecosystems units together.
Compost plants - regrowing your food - reducing waste and growing food from your waste (ie celery, carrot tops, onions, etc)
Building a terrarium - plants and ecosystem in a bottle
Tomatoshpere Canada - plant needs, structure and function, micro-gravity and plants on the ISS
Our Martian Garden Project - space, plants, ecosystems, structures, heat, and earth all rolled in to one. Main focus on plants and ecosystems but a theme we will be using throughout. It can be use for a variety of ideas other than mars, the ISS, moon, biodomes or just here on earth.