Toolkits
Deep dives on the ideas that show up everywhere. Each one starts with why the idea exists at all — the problem it was invented to solve, what it actually does, and where it turns up outside a classroom — and then goes through it properly: the full explanation, the table you actually need, worked examples, and the mistakes that cost marks.
Every unit
Designing a fair test
A question you can test, one manipulated variable, the responding variable, controlled variables, repeated trials, and what the results can and cannot tell you — with plants, heat and structures.
Open the toolkit
Science and society
Intended and unintended consequences
Every technology in the course does what it was meant to and something else too. How to find the consequences nobody planned, weigh them, and say whose point of view counts.
Open the toolkit
How to use these
- Wondering why any of this is a thing? Read the opening section. It is the part a textbook usually skips.
- Stuck on a question type? Open the toolkit for that idea and find the worked example closest to it.
- Revising? Read the tables and try the checks, then go to practice questions to see whether it stuck.
- Reviewing for a unit test? There is no provincial test in Grade 7, so your teacher sets the tests — the printable worksheets and a mixed quiz are the closest thing here to sitting one.