Grade 7 Geography

The 2023 Ontario Grade 7 Geography course has two strands: Physical Patterns in a Changing World, and Natural Resources Around the World: Use and Sustainability. The museum links six lessons, built from nine of its thirty-seven specific expectations, to records from the Islamic world.

Draft: these lessons were written with AI help and have not yet been read by a human editor.

Strand A: Physical Patterns in a Changing World

How people respond to the physical environment, and the patterns of landforms, water bodies and climate (overall expectations A1, A2, A3).

  1. Answering the land with water works How 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). PlaceStoryInvention
  2. Which environment weighs most on people? A desert crossing Judging which physical environments have the greatest impact on people, with one desert road as a case (A1.3). Story
  3. A mountain range in the desert Locating a landform and describing its physical characteristics: a desert range (A3.1). Place
  4. Rivers in flood Describing the patterns and physical characteristics of major rivers: the Nile's yearly flood and a Euphrates flood (A3.4). PlaceStory
  5. Dividing the earth into climates How a medieval author described the climate regions and what he said shapes them (A3.6, A3.7). Reflection

Strand B: Natural Resources Around the World: Use and Sustainability

How people use natural resources and respond to the challenges that follow (overall expectations B1, B2, B3).

  1. Land, water and pasture: using and sharing How people use land, water and pasture to meet their needs, and one response to competing claims on a shared resource (B3.2, B3.5). Reflection × 2Place

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