Grade 7 Science Scientific Innovations

Acknowledgements

Learning Activity 1

Black Friday Online Shopping, Neil Godwin/Future Publishing/Future/Getty Images

Inuit snow goggles, Julian Idrobo, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_goggles, Published 2007-07-05, Accessed 2022-07-05.

The Wisdom of Indigenous Innovation: "The knowledge is in our DNA", D. Williams, First Nations Technology Council, URL: https://technologycouncil.ca/2019/02/28/the-wisdom-of-indigenous-innovation-the-knowledge-is-in-our-dna/, Published 2019-02-28, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Two-Eyed Seeing, Institute for Integrative Science & Health, URL: http://www.integrativescience.ca/Principles/TwoEyedSeeing/, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Testing stream for government, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Government of Canada, URL: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00134.html, Published 2022-01-06, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Learning Activity 2

Powerful white water in a small waterfall on Castle River, MagicVova/Creatas Video+ / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images

Preparing instant coffee with hot water and tasting it, zoranm/Creatas Video/Getty Images

Dissolving more, dissolving faster, K8schoollessons.com, URL: https://k8schoollessons.com/dissolving-more-dissolving-faster/, Published 2022-02-20, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Factors Affecting Solubility, BYJUS, URL: https://byjus.com/chemistry/factors-affecting-solubility/, Published 2021-03-22, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Learning Activity 3

How does water get to my faucet? Wonderopolis, National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), URL: https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-does-water-get-to-my-faucet, Accessed 2022-08-09.

What is an Aquifer?–Lesson for Kids, Rebecca Gillaspy, Study.com, URL: https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-an-aquifer-lesson-for-kids.html, Published 2017-01-26, Accessed 2022-08-09.

The new water technologies that could save the planet, Will Henley, The Guardian, URL: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/new-water-technologies-save-planet, Published 2013-07-22, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Showcasing Water Innovation: Communities Adopting Innovative and Sustainable Water Management (Final Report 2015), Ontario Water Consortium, URL: https://ontariowater.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/showcasingwaterinnovation.pdf, Published 2015, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Learning Activity 4

Grade 7: Lesson 2 — Ergonomic Structures! 🏃‍♀️, Science North, URL: https://youtu.be/P9nVzklg3DM, Published 2020-05-15, Accessed 2022-07-06.

Learning Activity 5

Boiling vegetable oil, SomeSense/Creatas Video+ / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images

MS Two boys (9-12) organizing bottles into recycle bins, Panama City, Panama, Pigeon Productions Inc./Image Bank Film: Signature/Getty Images

Separation and Sorting Technology Archives: Separation and sorting technology innovations in waste handling and recycling operations, RecyclingInside, URL: https://recyclinginside.com/recycling-technology/separation-and-sorting-technology/, Accessed 2022-08-09.

CS Scrap magnet picking up metal at the recycling facility and releasing it over the shredder, simonkr/Vetta/Getty Images

Laser detector conveyor for waste sorting, olegkozyrev/Creatas Video+ / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images

Waste sorting by mechanical manipulator, Denis Perevezencev/Creatas Video+ / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images

Waters Infected - Great Lakes Now Full Episode - 1007, Great Lakes Now, Detroit Educational Television Foundation, URL: https://youtu.be/51zLITkgteA, Published 2019-10-22, Accessed 2022-07-07.

How fats, oils, and grease affect the sewer system, City of Niagara Falls, URL: https://niagarafalls.ca/city-hall/municipal-works/fat-oil-grease.aspx, Accessed 2022-08-09.

BRITAIN-WASTE-FATBERG-OFFBEAT, Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

Learning Activity 6

In an aerial view, vehicles on Interstate 95 travel past a construction project to add three lanes to the I-95 Rappahannock River Crossing on April 6, 2021 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Drew Angerer/Getty Images News/Getty Images

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Athanasios Gioumpasis/Getty Images News/Getty Images

Collapsed Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images

20 Fenchurch Street, Maciej Lulko/Moment/Getty Images

Wireless Smart Sensors Inspect Bridge, Futurity, URL: https://www.futurity.org/wireless-smart-sensors-inspect-bridge/#:~:text=A%20network%20of%20wireless%20sensors,for%20civil%20infrastructure%20to%20date, Published 2010-05-07, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Lead rubber bearing for earthquake resistance, Hengshui JingTong Rubber Co, Ltd, URL: https://www.bridgebearings.org/product/lead-rubber-bearing.html, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Why and how to use drones in construction and infrastructure, Wingtra, URL: https://wingtra.com/drone-mapping-applications/drones-in-construction-and-infrastructure/, Published 2021-11-18, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Self-Healing Concrete Inspired by Bones, Hendrik Marius Jonkers, Biomimicry Institute, URL: https://asknature.org/innovation/self-healing-concrete-cracking-repair-solution-inspired-by-bones/, Published 2015, Accessed 2022-08-09.

The interior of the Meno Ya Win Health Centre, designed by Douglas Cardinal, in northern Ontario’s Sioux Lookout, Douglas Cardinal, URL: https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/indigenous-architecture-unceded/, Published 2018-06-08, Accessed 2022-07-14.

Learning Activity 7

Aerial picture of a deforested area close to Sinop, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR/AFP/Getty Images

Negative effects of clear-cutting, P. Whitmer, Sciencing, URL: https://sciencing.com/negative-effects-clearcutting-8194063.html, Published 2019-11-22, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Environmental impacts of food production, City of Maple Ridge, URL: https://www.mapleridge.ca/1776/Food-Production, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Environmental impacts of agricultural modification, National Geographic Resource Library, National Geographic Society, URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/environmental-impacts-agricultural-modifications/7th-grade/, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Cows Graze In Farm Field In Pennsylvania, Reading Eagle/MediaNews Group/Getty Images

Raven's Quest - Hope, Apartment 11 Productions, URL: https://www.tvokids.com/school-age/ravens-quest-gr-1-3-social-studies/videos/hope, Published 2019-07-01, Accessed 2022-07-06.

George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration, restored by Adam Cuerden, Tuskegee University Archives/Museum, URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Washington_Carver_c1910_-_Restoration.jpg, Published circa 1910, Restored 2016-10-21, Accessed 2022-07-14.

Fresh City Farms at Downsview Park, Fresh City Farms, URL: https://www.tvo.org/article/how-an-urban-farming-collective-is-planting-seeds-of-change, Published 2017-08-18, Accessed 2022-07-14.

The Agenda with Steve Paikin - Growing Vertical Farming, TVO, OECA, URL: https://www.tvo.org/video/growing-vertical-farming, Published 2020-08-07, Accessed 2022-07-06.

Learning Activity 8

The Fishway at Princess Point, Royal Botanical Gardens, URL: https://www.rbg.ca/plants-conservation/nature-sanctuaries/fishway/, Accessed 2022-08-09.

A researcher from the Volcani Center, Israel's agricultural research organisation, places an automatic movement camera on a tree, to monitor mountain gazelles in a forest near Moshav Mesilat Tzion, MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images

7 science innovations that are changing conservation, Cara Cannon Byington, Matthew L. Miller, Cool Green Science, URL: https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/04/17/7-science-innovations-changing-conservation/, Published 2017-04-17, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Baby flamingos in Izmir Bird Sanctuary, Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Peatlands as climate savers, Jonas Walzberg/picture alliance/Getty Images

Trees and Peat Capture and Store Carbon: Forest ecosystems, Anika Hazra, The Biomimicry Institute, URL: https://asknature.org/strategy/boreal-forested-peatland-captures-and-stores-carbon-dioxide/, Published 2021-03-08, Accessed 2022-08-09.

The Duchess Of Cambridge Visits The Natural History Museum, Geoff Pugh - WPA Pool/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

How can bioacoustics help conserve biodiversity?, Justine E. Hausheer, The Biomimicry Institute, URL: https://blog.nature.org/science/explainer/how-can-bioacoustics-help-conserve-biodiversity/, Published 2015-09-29, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Learning Activity 9

Nanoscope, Matt Howard, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_de_Broglie_microscope, Published 2009-07-05, Accessed 2022-07-14.

Robustness of a quality control method, Bert Markgraf, Chron.com, URL: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/robustness-quality-control-method-62076.html, Published 2016-10-26, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Nanotechnology - Exploring concepts, possible dangers and its affect on medicine, MicroscopeMaster, URL: https://www.microscopemaster.com/nanotechnology.html, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Nanotechnology: A promising approach for delivery of neuroprotective drugs, Saba Naqvi, Archna Panghal, S J S Flora, Frontiers in Neuroscience, URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32581676/, Published 2020, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Nerve growth through nanotechnology, S. De Vincentiis, A. Falconieri, M. Mainardi, V. Cappello, V. Scribano, R. Bizzarri, B. Storti, L. Dente, M. Costa, & V. Raffa, Wings for Life, URL: https://www.wingsforlife.com/en/latest/nerve-growth-through-nanotechnology-4428/, Published 2020-07-20, Accessed 2022-08-09. Originally published the Journal of Neuroscience.

Nanotechnology for neuroscience: Promising approaches for diagnostics, therapeutics and brain activity mapping, A. Kumar, A, Tan, J. Wong, J.C. Spagnoli, J. Lam, B.D. Blevins, L. Thorne, K. Ashkan, J. Xie & H. Liu, Advanced Functional Materials, URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6404766/, Published 2017-10-19, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Nanotechnology and the environment - Potential benefits and sustainability effects, Nanowerk, URL: https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=25910.php?msclkid=8b907f78cfbc11ecba90cbf85443835a, Published 2012-07-11, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Learning Activity 10

Pelamis P2 wave energy device, Scottish Government, © Crown Copyright, URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelamis_P2_wave_energy_device_(7020981211).jpg, Published 2011-07-29, Accessed 2022-07-05.

How much energy does a solar panel produce?, EnergySage, URL: https://news.energysage.com/what-is-the-power-output-of-a-solar-panel/, Published 2021-09-18, Accessed 2022-08-09.

How much energy do solar panels produce for your home?, YES Energy Solutions, URL: https://www.yesenergysolutions.co.uk/advice/how-much-energy-solar-panels-produce-home, Accessed 2022-08-09.

Scratch screenshot showing sample of how to run the code with green flag in upper left corner, JeffGunn, lalalark, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab, URL: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/689384710, . Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu.

Scratch sprites, JeffGunn, lalalark, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab, URL: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/689384710, . Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu.