OJCS Science

This post contains all of the grade 6 lessons on electricity. Students will learn about the short—and long-term impacts of electrical energy technologies in Canada on society and the environment. They will learn how circuits work by building their own series and parallel circuits and assess choices that reduce personal use of electrical energy.

Lesson 1: Series and Parallel Circuits

Lesson 2: Building Circuits

Lesson 3: Fixing Electrical Problems

There are so many uses for electricity. But what happens when something isn’t working right? Maybe your computer speakers are not working or your refrigerator isn’t staying cold. What do people do? They often need to take their appliance in to be repaired or have a technician come to the house to repair the appliance. The technician has to figure out what is wrong and why the device is not working properly. This process is called troubleshooting. Let’s practice some troubleshooting skills to solve electrical problems.

 

Innovation Day – Electricity Project

• Electricity Project Outline
• Electricity Project Work Planner
• Electricity Project Tracking Sheet with Due Dates

Project Checklist

The Scientific Method

 

All presentations, links, and videos from the Structures: Form and Function lessons will be posted below.

Lesson 1: Stability and Forces Presentation

 

Lesson 2: Stress on Structures and Structure Types Presentation

Lesson 3: Stability, Symmetry & Bridge Type Presentation

 

Innovation Day

• Structures Project Outline
• Innovation Day Due Dates and Tracking Sheet

Ottawa Regional Science Fair

Students who want to enter an independent project in the ORSF can find all information, links, rubrics, and registration details below.

• Innovation Day Proposal (Must be submitted to Mr. Ray for approval by December 20th)
• Scientific Method and STEAM Tracking Sheet
• STEAM Project Rubric and Assessment Document

ORSF (Ottawa Regional Science Fair Info)

• Ottawa Regional Science Fair Homepage
• Important Dates
• How to Register
• Project Rules and Regulations
• Schedule

All presentations, links, activities, homework, and videos from the Systems in Action unit will be posted below.

Lesson 1: Simple Machines

2.1 – Simple Machines (Answer questions #2 and 4 in your Simple Machines folder)

Lesson 2: Mechanical Advantage

2.3 – Mechanical Advantage (Read and answer questions #1-4)

Mechanical Advantage Word Problem Practice Sheet

Lesson 3: Work

2.5 – How to Calculate ‘Work’(Read and answer questions #1, 3, 4, & 5)

Innovation Day

• Simple Machines Project Outline

Ottawa Regional Science Fair

Students who want to enter an independent project in the ORSF can find all information, links, rubrics, and registration details below.

• Innovation Day Proposal (Must be submitted to Mr. Ray for approval by December 20th)
• Scientific Method and STEAM Tracking Sheet
• STEAM Project Rubric and Assessment Document

ORSF (Ottawa Regional Science Fair Info) – March 31st

• Ottawa Regional Science Fair Homepage
• Important Dates
• How to Register
• Project Rules and Regulations
• Schedule

The Scientific Method

All presentations, links, activities, homework, and videos from the Flight unit will be posted below.

Lesson 1: Properties of Air 

1. Watch the video above
2. Make a copy of the Properties of Air document, add it to your Flight folder, and answer the 6 questions

Lesson 2: Lift vs. Gravity

1. Make a copy of the Properties of Air Web and add it to your Flight folder notes
2. Read the following and answer questions #1 and 3

Lesson 3: Adaptations of Flight

1. Read the following and answer questions #1 and 2 at the end of the document.
2. All answers should be saved to your Flight folder

Lesson 4: Air in Motion – Part 1

1. Read and follow the procedures below.
2. Answer questions 1 and 2 at the end under the communicate section.

Air in Motion – Part 2

1. Read and follow the procedures below.
2. Answer questions 1 and 3 at the end under the communicate section.

Lesson 5: Take Off

Paper Airplane Airport Challenge Questions

Lesson 6: The Four Forces of Flight

1. Read The Four Forces link (Remember that we use Weight and Gravity interchangeably)
2. The Four Forces student questions assignment (Make a copy, add to your Flight folder, and complete the assignment)
3. If finished, play around with this flight simulator to further your understanding of the four forces of flight (must have flash enabled)
4. Complete this Quizlet on flight when you are finished.

Lesson 7: Video Worksheet

1. Watch the video above
2. Make a copy of the Flight video worksheet, add it to your Flight folder, and fill in the answers

Lesson 8: Build Your Own Rocket

1. Rocket Design Template
2. 60-second Video Analysis on Canva

End of Unit Review (Make a copy and add it to your Flight folder)

• Flight Review – Notes and Blog Hunt! (Part 1)
• Flight Review – Notes and Blog Hunt! (Part 2 & 3)
• Flight Review – Notes and Blog Hunt! (Part 4)
• Flight Review – Notes and Blog Hunt! (Part 5)

Solutions to the review (Check your answers with these ones and make any necessary adjustments)

Create a Plan to Study – link

 

Extras

Choose a Wow in World podcast to listen to

Practice your coding skills using these fun challenges from code.org

This post will contain all of the grade 7 lessons on ecosystems. Students will be learning about the interactions within the environment, and identifying factors that affect the balance of an ecosystem. They will design and construct a model biosphere and use it to investigate interactions between components and how matter is cycled within the environment. Later in this section, students will describe the roles and interactions of producers within an ecosystem and distinguish between primary and secondary succession. We will begin by learning how to identify biotic and abiotic elements in ecosystems and describe the interactions between them.

Lesson 1: Biotic and Abiotic Factors

1. List the biotic and abiotic factors in this handout (make a copy for yourself and save it to your ecosystems folder)
2. Download a copy of this 4.1 ‘What is an Ecosystem?‘ text to your ecosystems folder
3. Read the information and answer questions 2, 3, and 4 at the end of the text

Lesson 2: Ecosystem Unit Vocabulary

1. Ecosystems Vocabulary Student Sheet (To be filled in using the 4.1 & 4.4 note)
2. Ecosystems Vocabulary Student Sheet – Solutions
3. Vocabulary worksheet
4. Vocabulary of Ecosystems Worksheet – Solutions

Lesson 3: Interactions among Living Things

1. Read the 4.4 Interactions among Living Things note
2. Note the terms competition, predator, prey, and mutualism and add them to your vocabulary student sheet
3. Choose a date for the upcoming vocabulary quiz.

Lesson 4: Biospheres

1. Making a Biosphere Recipe
2. Making a Biosphere Rubric

Lesson 5: Food Chains and Food Webs

1. Read the ‘Food Chains and Food Webs‘ text
2. Create a doc called ‘Food Chains and Food Webs’ in your ecosystems folder and answer questions #1 – 5 from the text

3. Watch the video above

4. Make a copy of the Food Webs video worksheet, fill it out, and submit it to your hand-in folder

Lesson 6: Carbon and Water Cycles

1. Download a copy of this ‘Matter Cycles‘ text to your ecosystems folder
2. Answer questions #2, 4, & 5 from the text
3. Read the Carbon Cycle and Water Cycle Handout

Lesson 7: Energy Flow

1. Read the Energy Flow in an Ecosystem note
2. Answer questions 1, 4, and 5 in your Ecosystems folder
3. Complete the Cycling of Matter labeling handout

Lesson 8: Roles of Organisms in an Ecosystem

1. Read the Roles of Organisms in an Ecosystem note
2. Answer questions #1, 2, & 3 from the text
3. Note the terms photosynthesis, producers, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, scavenger, omnivore, detrivore, decomposer and add them to your vocabulary student sheet

Lesson 9: CoSpaces Project

1. Introductory Activity and Tutorial
2. CoSpaces Rubric and Assignment
3. Coding Cheat Sheet

Introductory Videos

Using Paths

Lesson 1: Cell Theory

4.2 Postulates of the Cell Theory (Read and answer questions 1 -3)

Lesson 2: Plant and Animal Cells

1. 4.5 Plant and Animal Cells (Read and answer question 4 at the end of the text)
2. Organelle chart example (From question 4 above)
3. Plant vs. Animal Cell Labelling Sheet 1 (Make a copy and save it to your Cells folder)

Lesson 3: The Compound Microscope

1. 4.3 – The Compound Microscope (Read and answer questions 2-5 at the end of the text)

2. Microscope Labelling Diagram (Make a copy and fill in the blanks)

3. Microscope Labelling Diagram Solutions

Lesson 4: Advances in Microscopy

1. 4.8 – Advances in Microscopy (Read and answer questions 2 – 6)
2. Add Mitochondria, Ribosomes, Endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and Lysosomes to your cell organelle and function study sheet (lesson 2).
3. Animal vs. Plant Cell Labelling Sheet # 2
4. Solutions to Labelling Sheet # 2
5. Organelle Functions (Full set)

Lesson 5: Comparing Plant & Animal Cells Lab 

1. Lab Rubric (Go over and read before reading instructions)
2. Cells Lab Instructions Page 1
3. Cells Lab Instructions Page 2
4. Lab sheet for students (make a copy for yourself)
5. Microscope Cell Drawing Template

Lesson 6: Selectively Permeable Membranes

5.1 – The Cell Membrane (Answer questions #1-3 and add to your Cells folder)

Lesson 7: Diffusion and Osmosis

5.2 – Diffusion (Answer questions #2, 4, 5 and add to your Cells folder)

5.3 – Osmosis and Turgor Pressure (Answer questions #2, 3, 4 and add it to your Cells folder)

Here is a presentation on Osmosis and Turgor Pressure that may help you understand the concepts.

I realized that the screen went black on the last slide of the screencast. Here is the slide on Turgor Pressure to accompany the audio.

Lesson 8: Cell Wars – Defending against invaders

Cell Wars Student Note link (Make a copy, add it to your Cells folder and answer questions #1-3)

Lesson 9: Cell Systems

The Levels of Organization

Lesson 10: Unicellular Organisms

Unicellular Organisms Defined:

Unicellular organisms are composed of a single cell, unlike multicellular organisms which are made of many cells. This means they each live and carry out all of their life processes as one single cell. Most unicellular organisms are microscopic;

• Also called microorganisms or microbes since they are only visible under a microscope.
• The single cell is responsible for feeding, digestion, excretion and reproduction.
• Some microorganisms make us sick, but without the others we could not survive.
• The following are examples of unicellular organisms:

• • Bacteria
  • Protists
  • Some Fungi

Multicellular Organisms Defined: 

A tissue, organ or organism that is made up of many cells is said to be multicellular. Animals, plants, and fungi are multicellular organisms and often, there is specialization of different cells for various functions. In contrast, unicellular, or single-celled organisms are much smaller in size and less complex as they are composed of just one cell that senses its environment, gathers nutrients and reproduces asexually. The following are examples of multicellular organisms: human beings, organs and tissues,  plants, animals, birds and insects. 

~Generally speaking, we can say that unicellular and multicellular organisms are alike in that they exhibit all the functions of life, such as metabolism and reproduction, they contain DNA and RNA, they can exhibit a wide range of lifestyles, and they are essential to almost every ecosystem that we currently know of.

 

 

Amoeba, Euglena, and Paramecium on the move

The paramecium are the larger protists, the amoeba are the blob-like protists, and the euglena are the smaller unicellular organisms.

Unit Review

Cells Unit Study Sheet

Student Note Study Package (Make a copy for yourself to modify/print out)

Create a Plan to Study – link

 

Google Search Tips Review Sheet