Investigating Science & Technology 7 & 8

Welcome! ScienceSource.ca is the support website for the Investigating Science and Technology 7 & 8 textbooks. You'll find that ScienceSource provides hundreds of excellent teaching and learning resources.

To get started, we strongly recommend viewing our tutorial movies. When you're done with the tutorials, start viewing what ScienceSource.ca has to offer by clicking on ScienceSource 7 or ScienceSource 8 in the menu to the left, and choosing Unit A. You'll find that all the Chapter 1 resources are always completely FREE to examine, with no need to log in with a username or password. Check back often, new resources are frequently added!

When you're ready to see and use ALL the resources at ScienceSource.ca, you'll need to start with a ScienceSource BASIC account. ScienceSource BASIC accounts are available for purchase by teachers/schools only. To register for ScienceSource BASIC, you'll need an Access Code. Access Codes come with the purchase of an Investigating Science and Technology Teacher Resource Manual (TRM). To order your TRM, please visit this Pearson page to place your order. Questions? Consider visiting our FAQ/Help page.

If you have an Access Code card for ScienceSource BASIC, you can proceed with registering by clicking the My ScienceSource button in the left menu, then clicking the Register Now button. Simply follow the registration steps, and if you need assistance, view the registration tutorial on the tutorial movies page.

Once you have setup your ScienceSource BASIC account and are logged in, you will notice that you can see all of the BASIC resources in all of the chapters of both Investigating Science and Technology 7 & 8.

When you are logged in with your username and password, you will notice that the top of the page will be customized with whatever you entered as the name of your school during registration. You'll also have a link available to upgrade your account. There are several upgrade options available (or will be available soon):

• ScienceSource PLUS 7 or 8: many special interactive resources, activities and movies.
• Image Bank Access 7 or 8: convenient online access to selected images from the textbooks.
• eBook Access 7 or 8: student use electronic student book files (included with ScienceSource PLUS 7 or 8)

More upgrades will be available in the future. To see a complete list of upgrade features, visit the upgrade page.

ScienceSource PLUS provides many exciting interactive features including chapter and unit interactive quizzes, key lab videos hosted by textbook authors, simulations, animations, supplementary labs, key concept "mystery image" puzzles, key concept videos, student use electronic student book files (eBook access), and much more.

The FREE trial of ScienceSource PLUS is ongoing - you can always see the PLUS resources for the first chapter of ScienceSource 7 and ScienceSource 8.

Would you like to access the PLUS resources for ALL chapters? For more information on purchasing the ScienceSource PLUS upgrade, please visit the ScienceSource upgrade page.