Science: Understanding Earth and Space Systems

As the First Nations and Early Europeans unit comes to a close, we begin to shift our focus back to science.  The unit revolves around the Understanding Earth and Space Systems strand and is titled "Conservation of Energy and Resources".  Students will be investigating the following big ideas:

• energy sources are either renewable or non-renewable.
• energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be transformed.
• choices about using energy and resources have both immediate and long-term impacts.
• conservation is one way of reducing the impacts of using energy and resources.

Unit activities will range from research to hands-on investigations with the culminating task being to design and create a structure/ device with energy and environmental considerations.