Geography Grade 7 - Natural Resources
From Brock University, this unit plan contains 20 days worth of lessons, activities, and worksheets on natural resources, following the Ontario curriculum.
Ontario Geography Inquiry Pac
From the Critical Thinking Consortium, this unit plan includes a PowerPoint, a teaching guide, activity sheets, and discussion guide, along with inquiry questions that encourage students to think critically.
Deepening Knowledge: Resources for and about Indigenous Education
From the University of Toronto, this resource includes multiple grade 7 lesson plans. Most of them are geared primarily towards history, but they can still hold value in the geography classroom.
Grade 7 Geography Unit Teacher Guide
From the Ontario Teachers' Federation, this teacher guide includes unit plans, lesson plans, and activities for grade 7 geography.
Canadian Geographic: Educator Resources, Grade 7
From Canadian Geographic, this webpage includes lesson plans on many topics, such as energy and natural resources, climate change and environment, regional geography, and geographic skills. Lesson plans can be filtered by grade and topic.
TVO Learn - Grade 7 History and Geography
TVO Learn is designed as a student resource, but can also be useful in the classroom. The grade 7 section includes learning activities (which will require instruction from an adult), as well as other resources for learning and prompts to apply what students have learned. Resources include videos and articles that may be useful for class instruction.
Native Land
An interactive map demonstrating the territories of Indigenous peoples around the world. Can be searched by address to see whose traditional lands you live or go to school on.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada by
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in partnership with Canada's national Indigenous organizations, has created a groundbreaking four-volume atlas that shares the experiences, perspectives, and histories of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. It's an ambitious and unprecedented project inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action. Exploring themes of language, demographics, economy, environment and culture, with in-depth coverage of treaties and residential schools, these are stories of Canada's Indigenous Peoples, told in detailed maps and rich narratives. This extraordinary project offers Canada a step on the path toward understanding. The volumes contain more than 48 pages of reference maps, content from more than 50 Indigenous writers; hundreds of historical and contemporary photographs and a glossary of Indigenous terms, timelines, map of Indigenous languages, and frequently asked questions. All packaged together in a beautifully designed protective slipcase.
GIS Made Easy: Geography Lessons Using GIS by
The aim of this book is to develop teachers' knowledge and confidence in utilising and integrating online GIS into geography lessons to promote engagement and enjoyment. A Geographical Information System (GIS) allows students to visualise, explore, question, analyse and make sense of the world around them. GIS is mentioned specifically in the KS3 geography programmes of study, and most GCSE and A level specifications. It is still an area that many geography teachers struggle to incorporate into their teaching. There are expensive GIS software packages available to buy, but this book uses free web-based software which is easy to use. This book is a toolkit that will allow you to first get an understanding of what GIS is and then how using online GIS can be easily incorporated into a range of topics without the need to be a GIS specialist, ICT specialist or having a specialised GIS software package. The range of GIS skills covered in these lessons will provide students with a skill set that they may find themselves using in their life and future work place. The nine lessons in this book can be incorporated into exciting key stage 3 schemes of work. Each lesson is framed in an enquiry question. It also gives ideas of how the lesson ideas can be taken further. The topics covered in the book are: migration, shopping, crime, health, coastal erosion, flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes. This toolkit contains: - nine fully worked lesson plans - all the resources needed to teach each lesson, including PowerPoints, task sheets and activity sheets. These are available to download from a password-protected area of the GA website - guidance and information about GIS, GIS skills, and advice and guidance about how to incorporate GIS into your geography curriculum - further teaching ideas and advice on purchasing GIS software.
Google Earth • Google Earth Education
Use Google Earth to
There are no textbooks on the Trillium List for this course. The following books are suggested materials that are available in the Education Library.
GEO7 by
This textbook supports the Ontario curriculum, grade 7 geography. Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-261) and index.
GEO7: Teacher's Resource by
This textbook supports the Ontario curriculum, grade 7 geography.