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Curriculum expectations
A1— analyse some challenges and opportunities presented by the physical environment and ways in which people have responded to them (FOCUS ON: Spatial Significance; Interrelationships)A2— use the geographic inquiry process to investigate the impact of natural events and/or human activities that change the physical environment, exploring the impact from a geographic perspective (FOCUS ON: Geographic Perspective)A3— demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns in Earth’s physical features and of some natural processes and human activities that create and change those features (FOCUS ON: Patterns and Trends; Spatial Significance)
Lessons
- Answering the land with water worksHow people have responded to the challenges and opportunities of the physical environment, and how dams and canals create and change water systems (A1.1, A3.5).
- Which environment weighs most on people? A desert crossingJudging which physical environments have the greatest impact on people, with one desert road as a case (A1.3).
- A mountain range in the desertLocating a landform and describing its physical characteristics: a desert range (A3.1).
- Rivers in floodDescribing the patterns and physical characteristics of major rivers: the Nile's yearly flood and a Euphrates flood (A3.4).
- Dividing the earth into climatesHow a medieval author described the climate regions and what he said shapes them (A3.6, A3.7).
Brief
Strand A of the Grade 7 Geography course: Physical Patterns in a Changing World. It has five lessons, on water works, a desert crossing, landforms, rivers and climate regions. 1
Sources
- The Ontario Curriculum: Social Studies, Grades 1 to 6; History and Geography, Grades 7 and 8 (2023)
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islam.museum contributors. “Strand A: Physical Patterns in a Changing World”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/course/ca-on-g7-geography-a/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-12.
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