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Nelson Science & Technolgoy Perspectives 8 - Student Textbook

Nelson Science & Technolgoy Perspectives 8 - Student Textbook

Nelson Science & Technolgoy Perspectives 8 - Student Textbook

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The  Nelson Science & Technolgoy Perspectives 8 - Student Textbook supports The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 8: Science and Technology, 2007

It has these units and chapters:

UNIT A: SYSTEMS IN ACTION

Chapter 1 INTRODUCING SYSTEMS
1.1 Types of Systems
1.2 System Components
Tech Connect: Aliens, Elephants, and Grinning Gorillas—The World of Animatronics
1.3 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Examining Physical Systems
1.4 Systems Evolve - Try This: A School Litter Mangement System
1.5 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Consumerism

Chapter 2 GETTING TO WORK
2.1 Physical Systems: Simple Machines
2.2 A Closer Look at Forces - Try This: Measuring Forces
2.3 Mechanical Advantage - Try This: Mechanical Advantage of a Lever
2.4 CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION: Mechanical Advantage and Pulleys
2.5 The Scientific Meaning of Work - Try This: Finding Work
Awesome Science: Micro-Marvels and Mini-Machines
2.6 CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION: Less Work or Easier Work?— Investigating Levers

Chapter 3 DESIGNING EFFICIENT SYSTEMS
3.1 Energy on the Loose - Try This: Identify Energy Losses
3.2 Efficiency - Try This: Improve Efficiency
3.3 Energy, Work, and Mechanical Efficiency
3.4 CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION: Examining Efficiency
3.5 SOLVE A TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEM: Hang On!
3.6 Customer Service - Try This: Evaluating Owners’ Manuals
3.7 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: The Pros and Cons of Automation
Science Works: Smarter Home Building

UNIT B: CELLS

Chapter 4 CELLS: THE BASIC UNITS OF LIFE
4.1 The Characteristics of Living Things - Try This: Living or Non-living?
4.2 The Nature of Cells: The Cell Theory
4.3 The Compound Microscope - Try This: Modelling a Microscope’s Field of View
4.4 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Exploring the Microscope
4.5 Plant and Animal Cells
4.6 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Comparing Plant and Animal Cells
4.7 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Genetic Testing
4.8 Advances in Microscopy Tech Connect: The Future of Microscopy

Chapter 5 CELLS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT
5.1 The Cell Membrane
5.2 Fluid Movement in Cells: Diffusion - Try This: Modelling Diffusion at Home
5.3 Osmosis: An Important Type of Diffusion
Science Works: Membrane Technologies
5.4 CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION: Modelling and Observing Diffusion
5.5 CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION: Modelling and Observing Osmosis
5.6 Endocytosis and Exocytosis

Chapter 6 ORGANIZING CELLS
6.1 Classifying Organisms
6.2 Unicellular Organisms
6.3 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Examining Unicellular Organisms
6.4 Multicellular Organisms
6.5 Multicellular Organisms Meeting Their Needs - Try This: Observing Stomates
6.6 Interactions Between Unicellular and Multicellular Organisms - Try This: Observing the Action of Yeast
Awesome Science: Umbilical Cord Blood Banks—Saving for the Future

UNIT C: FLUIDS

Chapter 7 FLUIDS ON THE MOVE
7.1 Fluids Everywhere - Try This: Counting Fluids
7.2 Characteristics of Fluids - Try This: Exploring Goobleck
7.3 Flow Rate and Viscosity - Try This: Measuring Drips
7.4 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Comparing Flow Rate
7.5 CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION: Warming Things Up
7.6 Controlling Fluid Flow
Awesome Science: Streamlined to the Max!
 7.7 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Investigating Fluid Mechanics
7.8 EXPLORE
97 AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Fluid Spills

Chapter 8 DENSITY AND BUOYANCY
8.1 Weight, Mass, and Volume - Try This: Finding Volume by Displacement
8.2 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Comparing Mass and Volume
8.3 Density
8.4 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Measuring Density: Making a Hydrometer
8.5 Buoyancy - Try This: Building a Metal “Boat”
Science Works: Underwater Treasures
8.6 Density and Buoyancy in Action - Try This: Building a Cartesian Diver

Chapter 9 FLUIDS UNDER PRESSURE
9.1 Putting the Squeeze on Fluids - Try This: Compressing Fluids
9.2 CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION: Investigating Fluids in Closed Systems
9.3 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Putting Fluids to Work
9.4 Effects of External Pressure on Fluids - Try This: Observing Atmospheric Pressure
Tech Connect: Hydraulic Marvel—The Falkirk Wheel
9.5 Relationships: Pressure, Volume, and Temperature - Try This: Observing the Effects of Temperature Change on a Fluid
9.6 SOLVE A TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEM: Solving Problems with Hydraulics and Pneumatics
9.7 The Value of Valves - Try This: Exploring Valves
9.8 The Power of Fluids
9.9 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Fluid Power: Costs and Benefits

UNIT D: WATER SYSTEMS

Chapter 10 SAFE DRINKING WATER
10.1 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Personal Water Use
10.2 What Is Water?
10.3 The Water Cycle
10.4 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Reducing Personal Water Consumption
10.5 Making Water Drinkable
Tech Connect: Backcountry Challenge
10.6 SOLVE A TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEM: A Water Filtration Device
10.7 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Safe Drinking Water in a First Nation Community

Chapter 11 WATER QUALITY
11.1 Fresh Water and Salt Water - Try This: What’s Left Behind?
11.2 Contaminants in Water
11.3 Testing Water Quality
11.4 Watersheds - Try This: Making a Continental Divide
Science Works: Protectors of the Watershed
11.5 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Farm Practices and Surface-Water Pollution
11.6 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Water Testing
11.7 Wastewater Treatment
11.8 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Wastewater Reduction

Chapter 12 WATER, WEATHER, AND CLIMATE
12.1 Surface Water and Climate
12.2 Glaciers, Polar Ice, and Global Warming
12.3 EXPLORE AN ISSUE CRITICALLY: Water Exports
12.4 Floods and Droughts - Try This: Water Absorption by Soil
12.5 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Global Access to Safe Drinking Water
12.6 Water Is Life
Awesome Science: Using Solar Power for Cleaner Water
12.7 PERFORM AN ACTIVITY: Water Footprints

Science Skill Handbook included.

444 pages.