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.
How to Use These Resources
Curriculum Overview
Science is a way of knowing which seeks to describe and explain the natural and physical world. An important part in building scientific and technological literacy is an understanding of the nature of science, which includes an understanding of the following: what scientists, engineers, and technologists do as individuals and as a community how scientific knowledge is generated and validated. As well, what benefits, costs, and risks are involved in using this knowledge and how science interacts with technology, society, and the environment.
The science and technology curriculum is divided into four strands:
- Understanding Life Systems: Interactions in the Environment
- Understanding Structures and Mechanisms: Form and Function
- Understanding Matter and Energy: Pure Substances and Mixtures
- Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Heat in the Environment
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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.
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Life Systems
Interactions in the Environment
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Structures and Mechanisms
Form and Function
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Matter and Energy
Pure Substances and Mixtures
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Earth and Space Systems
Heat in the Environment
abiotic
adaptations
biodegradable
biome
biosphere
biotic
carnivore
community
consumer
decomposer ecosystem
food chain
food web
habitat
herbivore
micro-organism
population
producer
species
succession
boiling point
condensation
contraction
convection
conduction
evaporation
expansion
heat
heat capacity
insulator
particle theory radiation
sublimation solidification
water cycle
temperature
thermometer
thermostat
vapourization
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
bedrock
continental
drift core
crust
deposit
erosion
horizons
humus
igneous
magma
mantle
metamorphic
minerals
sediment
sedimentary subduction
tectonic plate
topsoil
volcano
weathering
