Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Science 7
Strand C: Practical Science
Science, Technology, Society, and Environment (STSE) Contexts
Learning Outcome:
SCI.7.C.1 Demonstrate an awareness of the dynamic interplay between science, technology, society, and the environment (STSE), thereby being empowered to critically evaluate the impacts of scientific and technological advancements on individuals, communities, and ecosystems, and to make informed decisions for a sustainable future.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Information Sorting
- Interacting with AI
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Playing With Privacy
- Privacy Pursuit: My Privacy, Your Privacy
- Privacy Pursuit: The Value of Privacy
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools
Action and Practice
Learning Outcome:
SCI.7.C.3 Demonstrate practical scientific skills through safely and actively participating in a variety of scientific practices such as inquiry-based learning experiences, experimentation, scientific observation, data analysis, measurement, debate and scientific argumentation, communicating scientific information, and designing and building.
MediaSmarts Resources
Strand D: Nature of Science (Grades 7-9 Band)
Implication
Applications of science often have ethical, environmental, social, economic, and political implications.
Learning Outcome:
SCI.7.D.7 Demonstrate the understanding that technologies may have beneficial and detrimental social and environmental consequences
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Networked News
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Where's The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
Learning Outcome:
SCI.7.D.8 Demonstrate the understanding that when detrimental effects of a technology are revealed, the trade-off between the advantages and consequences of continued use must be carefully considered.
Include the following: fossil fuels and climate change; paper usage and biodiversity; cell phones and social health.