High School Science BC Learning Standards

Big Ideas

DNA is the basis for the diversity of living things.

Energy change is required as atoms rearrange in chemical processes.

Energy is conserved, and its transformation can affect living things and the environment.

The formation of the universe can be explained by the big bang theory.

Curricular Competency

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Transfer and apply learning to new situations

Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas, claims, information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations and to evaluate claims in secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables (dependent and independent) and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs (including interpolation and extrapolation), models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods and those of others

Select and use appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Ensure that safety and ethical guidelines are followed in their investigations

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly complex ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Content

DNA structure and function

nuclear energy and radiation

law of conservation of energy

potential and kinetic energy

transformation of energy

local and global impacts of energy transformations from technologies

formation of the universe: big bang theory; components of the universe over time

astronomical data and collection methods

patterns of inheritance

mechanisms for the diversity of life: mutation and its impact on evolution; natural selection and artificial selection

applied genetics and ethical considerations

rearrangement of atoms in chemical reactions

acid-base chemistry

law of conservation of mass

energy change during chemical reactions

practical applications and implications of chemical processes, including First Peoples knowledge

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Atoms and molecules are building blocks of matter.

Organic chemistry and its applications have significant implications for human health, society, and the environment.

The mole is a quantity used to make atoms and molecules measurable.

Matter and energy are conserved in chemical reactions.

Solubility within a solution is determined by the nature of the solute and the solvent.

quantum mechanical model and electron configuration

stoichiometric calculations using significant figures

local and other chemical processes

green chemistry

solubility of molecular and ionic compounds

stoichiometric calculations in aqueous solutions

analysis techniques

valence electrons and Lewis structures

chemical bonding based on electronegativity

bonds/forces

organic compounds

applications of organic chemistry

the mole

dimensional analysis

reactions

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Cooperatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Atoms and molecules are building blocks of matter

Organic chemistry and its applications have significant implications for human health, society, and the environment

The mole is a quantity used to make atoms and molecules measurable

Matter and energy are conserved in chemical reactions

Solubility within a solution is determined by the nature of the solute and the solvent

quantum mechanical model and electron configuration

stoichiometric calculations using significant figures

local and other chemical processes

green chemistry

solubility of molecular and ionic compounds

stoichiometric calculations in aqueous solutions

analysis techniques

valence electrons and Lewis structures

chemical bonding based on electronegativity

bonds/forces

organic compounds

applications of organic chemistry

the mole

dimensional analysis

reactions

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Cooperatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Earth materials are changed as they cycle through the geosphere and are used as resources, with economic and environmental implications.

Plate tectonic theory explains the consequences of tectonic plate interactions.

The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather, and this transfer is affected by climate change.

The distribution of water has a major influence on weather and climate.

Astronomy seeks to explain the origin and interactions of Earth and its solar system.

properties of earth materials:<ul><li>minerals</li><li>igneous rocks</li><li>sedimentary rocks</li><li>metamorphic rocks</li><li>geologic resources</li></ul>

solar radiation interactions and impacts on the energy budget

evidence of climate change

First Peoples knowledge of climate change and interconnectedness as related to environmental systems

water as a unique resource

First Peoples knowledge and perspectives of water resources and processes

properties of the ocean and the ocean floor

local and global ocean currents

influences of large bodies of water on local and global climates

effects of climate change on water sources

the nebular hypothesis (explanation of the formation and properties of our solar system)

surface and internal processes of the rock cycle

Earth as a unique planet within its solar system

stars as the centre of a solar system

impacts of the Earth-moon-sun system

application of space technologies to the study of changes in Earth and its systems

economic and environmental implications of geologic resources within B.C. and globally

evidence that supports plate tectonic theory

factors that affect plate motion

First Peoples knowledge of local plate tectonic settings and geologic terrains

the hydrologic cycle

changes in the composition of the atmosphere due to natural and human causes

weather as the interaction of water, air, and energy transfer

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Earth materials are changed as they cycle through the geosphere and are used as resources, with economic and environmental implications

Plate tectonic theory explains the consequences of tectonic plate interactions

The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather, and this transfer is affected by climate change

The distribution of water has a major influence on weather and climate

Astronomy seeks to explain the origin and interactions of Earth and its solar system

properties of earth materials: — minerals — igneous rocks — sedimentary rocks — metamorphic rocks — geologic resources

solar radiation interactions and impacts on the energy budget

evidence of climate change

First Peoples knowledge of climate change and interconnectedness as related to environmental systems

water as a unique resource

First Peoples knowledge and perspectives of water resources and processes

properties of the ocean and the ocean floor

local and global ocean currents

influences of large bodies of water on local and global climates

effects of climate change on water sources

the nebular hypothesis (explanation of the formation and properties of our solar system)

surface and internal processes of the rock cycle

Earth as a unique planet within its solar system

stars as the centre of a solar system

impacts of the Earth-moon-sun system

application of space technologies to the study of changes in Earth and its systems

economic and environmental implications of geologic resources within B.C. and globally

evidence that supports plate tectonic theory

factors that affect plate motion

First Peoples knowledge of local plate tectonic settings and geologic terrains

the hydrologic cycle

changes in the composition of the atmosphere due to natural and human causes

weather as the interaction of water, air, and energy transfer

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Complex roles and relationships contribute to diversity of ecosystems.

Changing ecosystems are maintained by natural processes.

Human practices affect the sustainability of ecosystems.

Humans can play a role in stewardship and restoration of ecosystems.

abiotic characteristics:<ul><li>aquatic</li><li>atmospheric</li><li>edaphic</li></ul>

First Peoples ways of knowing and doing

resource stewardship

restoration practices

levels of biotic diversity

ecosystem complexity:<ul><li>roles</li><li>relationships</li><li>population dynamics</li></ul>

energy flow through ecosystems

matter cycles through and between living systems

succession

First Peoples knowledge and other traditional ecological knowledge in sustaining biodiversity

benefits of ecosystem services

human actions and their impact on ecosystem integrity

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Complex roles and relationships contribute to diversity of ecosystems

Changing ecosystems are maintained by natural processes

Human practices affect the sustainability of ecosystems

Humans can play a role in stewardship and restoration of ecosystems

abiotic characteristics: — aquatic — atmospheric — edaphic

First Peoples ways of knowing and doing

resource stewardship

restoration practices

levels of biotic diversity

ecosystem complexity: — roles — relationships — population dynamics

energy flow through ecosystems

matter cycles through and between living systems

succession

First Peoples knowledge and other traditional ecological knowledge in sustaining biodiversity

benefits of ecosystem services

human actions and their impact on ecosystem integrity

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content Learning Standards

Communicating

Applying and innovating

Evaluating

Processing and analyzing data and information

Planning and conducting

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Life is a result of interactions at the molecular and cellular levels.

Evolution occurs at the population level.

Organisms are grouped based on common characteristics.

levels of organization

single-celled and multi-celled organisms

trends in complexity among various life forms

evidence for phylogenetic relationships

taxonomic principles for classifying organisms

binomial nomenclature

First Peoples knowledge on classification

similarities and differences between domains and kingdoms

cell structure and function

sexual and asexual reproduction

energy transformations in cells

viruses

First Peoples understandings of interrelationships between organisms

microevolution:adaptation to changing environmentschanges in DNAnatural selection

macroevolution:<ul><li>speciation</li><li>processes of macroevolution</li><li>evidence for macroevolution</li></ul>

artificial selection and genetic modifications

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Cooperatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Life is a result of interactions at the molecular and cellular levels

Evolution occurs at the population level

Organisms are grouped based on common characteristics

levels of organization

single-celled and multi-celled organisms

trends in complexity among various life forms

evidence for phylogenetic relationships

taxonomic principles for classifying organisms

binomial nomenclature

First Peoples knowledge on classification

similarities and differences between domains and kingdoms

cell structure and function

sexual and asexual reproduction

energy transformations in cells

viruses

First Peoples understandings of interrelationships between organisms

microevolution: — adaptation to changing environments — changes in DNA — natural selection

macroevolution: — speciation — processes of macroevolution — evidence for macroevolution

artificial selection and genetic modifications

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Cooperatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

An object's motion can be predicted, analyzed, and described.

Forces influence the motion of an object.

Energy is found in different forms, is conserved, and has the ability to do work.

Mechanical waves transfer energy but not matter.

vector and scalar quantities

simple machines and mechanical advantage

applications of simple machines by First Peoples

electric circuits (DC), Ohm's law, and Kirchhoff's laws

thermal equilibrium and specific heat capacity

generation and propagation of waves

properties and behaviours of waves

characteristics of sound

resonance and frequency of sound

graphical methods in physics

horizontal uniform and accelerated motion

projectile motion

contact forces and the factors that affect magnitude and direction

mass, force of gravity, and apparent weight

Newton's laws of motion and free-body diagrams

balanced and unbalanced forces in systems

conservation of energy; principle of work and energy

power and efficiency

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

An object’s motion can be predicted, analyzed, and described

Forces influence the motion of an object

Energy is found in different forms, is conserved, and has the ability to do work

Mechanical waves transfer energy but not matter

vector and scalar quantities

simple machines and mechanical advantage

applications of simple machines by First Peoples

electric circuits (DC), Ohm’s law, and Kirchhoff’s laws

thermal equilibrium and specific heat capacity

generation and propagation of waves

properties and behaviours of waves

characteristics of sound

resonance and frequency of sound

graphical methods in physics

horizontal uniform and accelerated motion

projectile motion

contact forces and the factors that affect magnitude and direction

mass, force of gravity, and apparent weight

Newton’s laws of motion and free-body diagrams

balanced and unbalanced forces in systems

conservation of energy; principle of work and energy

power and efficiency

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Scientific processes and knowledge inform our decisions and impact our daily lives.

Scientific knowledge can be used to develop procedures, techniques, and technologies that have implications for places of employment.

Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally.

evidence-based decision making through science

beneficial scientific innovations

natural hazards and responses

human impact on Earth's systems:<ul><li>natural resources</li><li>effects of climate change</li></ul>

actions and decisions affecting the local and global environment, including those of First Peoples

personal and public health practices, including First Peoples traditional health and healing practices

impact of technologies

personal safety and awareness

workplace safety

certifications

practical applications of science in the workplace

impacts of technology in the workplace

applications of materials science

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Use local knowledge to experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Scientific processes and knowledge inform our decisions and impact our daily lives

Scientific knowledge can be used to develop procedures, techniques, and technologies that have implications for places of employment

Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally

evidence-based decision making through science

beneficial scientific innovations

natural hazards and responses

human impact on Earth’s systems: — natural resources — effects of climate change

actions and decisions affecting the local and global environment, including those of First Peoples

personal and public health practices, including First Peoples traditional health and healing practices

impact of technologies

personal safety and awareness

workplace safety

certifications

practical applications of science in the workplace

impacts of technology in the workplace

applications of materials science

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Use local knowledge to experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Homeostasis is maintained through physiological processes

Gene expression, through protein synthesis, is an interaction between genes and the environment

Organ systems have complex interrelationships to maintain homeostasis

biological molecules

organ systems: — structure and function — structural and functional interdependence — maintenance of homeostasis

lifestyle differences and their effects on human health

holistic approach to health

disease as an imbalance in homeostasis

metabolism and enzymes

feedback loops and regulation of the body’s internal environment

transport across a cell membrane

DNA: — the cell’s genetic information — replication

gene expression

proteins and their relationship to the structure and function of all cells

genomics and biotechnology

micro to macro organization

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Cooperatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Homeostasis is maintained through physiological processes.

Gene expression, through protein synthesis, is an interaction between genes and the environment.

Organ systems have complex interrelationships to maintain homeostasis.

biological molecules

organ systems:<ul><li>structure and function</li><li>structural and functional interdependence</li><li>maintenance of homeostasis</li></ul>

lifestyle differences and their effects on human health

holistic approach to health

disease as an imbalance in homeostasis

metabolism and enzymes

feedback loops and regulation of the body's internal environment

transport across a cell membrane

DNA:<ul><li>the cell's genetic information</li><li>replication</li></ul>

gene expression

proteins and their relationship to the structure and function of all cells

genomics and biotechnology

micro to macro organization

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Cooperatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Reactants must collide to react, and the reaction rate is dependent on the surrounding conditions

Dynamic equilibrium can be shifted by changes to the surrounding conditions

Saturated solutions are systems in equilibrium

Acid or base strength depends on the degree of ion dissociation

Oxidation and reduction are complementary processes that involve the gain or loss of electrons

reaction rate

relative strength of acids and bases in solution

water as an equilibrium system

weak acids and weak bases

titration

hydrolysis of ions in salt solutions

applications of acid-base reactions

the oxidation-reduction process

electrochemical cells

electrolytic cells

quantitative relationships

collision theory

energy change during a chemical reaction

reaction mechanism

catalysts

dynamic nature of chemical equilibrium

Le Châtelier’s principle and equilibrium shift

equilibrium constant (Keq)

saturated solutions and solubility product (Ksp)

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: significant figures uncertainty scientific notation

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models and diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Questioning and predicting

Planning and conducting

Processing and analyzing data and information

Evaluating

Applying and innovating

Communicating

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Reactants must collide to react, and the reaction rate is dependent on the surrounding conditions.

Dynamic equilibrium can be shifted by changes to the surrounding conditions.

Saturated solutions are systems in equilibrium.

Acid or base strength depends on the degree of ion dissociation.

Oxidation and reduction are complementary processes that involve the gain or loss of electrons.

reaction rate

relative strength of acids and bases in solution

water as an equilibrium system

weak acids and weak bases

titration

hydrolysis of ions in salt solutions

applications of acid-base reactions

the oxidation-reduction process

electrochemical cells

electrolytic cells

quantitative relationships

collision theory

energy change during a chemical reaction

reaction mechanism

catalysts

dynamic nature of chemical equilibrium

Le Châtelier's principle and equilibrium shift

equilibrium constant (Keq)

saturated solutions and solubility product (Ksp)

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models and diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and world views through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Human actions affect the quality of water and its ability to sustain life.

Human activities cause changes in the global climate system.

Sustainable land use is essential to meet the needs of a growing population.

Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth.

water quality parameters and bioindicators

personal choices and sustainable living

global environmental ethics, policy, and law

availability and water use impacts

global water security:<ul><li>laws and regulation</li><li>conservation of water</li></ul>

changes to climate systems

impacts of global warming

mitigation and adaptations

soil characteristics and ecosystem services

land use and degradation

land management

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Human actions affect the quality of water and its ability to sustain life

Human activities cause changes in the global climate system

Sustainable land use is essential to meet the needs of a growing population

Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth

water quality parameters and bioindicators

personal choices and sustainable living

global environmental ethics, policy, and law

availability and water use impacts

global water security: — laws and regulation — conservation of water

changes to climate systems

impacts of global warming

mitigation and adaptations

soil characteristics and ecosystem services

land use and degradation

land management

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Minerals, rocks, and earth materials form in response to conditions within and on the Earth's surface and are the foundation of many resource-based industries.

Earth's geological and biological history is interpreted and inferred from information stored in rock strata and fossil evidence.

The plate tectonic theory explains the changes that occur within Earth and to Earth's crust throughout geological time.

The form, arrangement, and structure of rocks are affected by three-dimensional forces over time.

Weathering and erosion processes continually reshape landscapes through the interaction of the geosphere with the hydrosphere and atmosphere.

classification of minerals

earthquakes and analysis of seismic waves

First Peoples knowledge of geologic events

internal and external factors that affect the plasticity of rock strata

faulting and folding

geologic maps, cross-sections, and block diagrams

weathering and erosion processes

First Peoples knowledge of landforms over time

periods of glaciation

groundwater and aquifers

causes and controls of mass wasting

processes of rock formation:<ul><li>igneous</li><li>sedimentary</li><li>metamorphic</li></ul>

B.C. resource deposits and others:<ul><li>origin and formation</li><li>economic, environmental, and First Peoples considerations</li></ul>

the geologic time scale and major events in Earth's history

the local and global fossil record:<ul><li>evidence of evolution</li><li>methods of fossil formation</li><li>First Peoples perspectives</li></ul>

methods for relative and absolute dating of rocks, fossils, and geologic events

reconstruction of Earth's past through correlation of fossil data and rock strata

the formation of volcanic and deformational features through plate movement

evidence that supports a layered model of Earth

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Minerals, rocks, and earth materials form in response to conditions within and on the Earth’s surface and are the foundation of many resource-based industries

Earth’s geological and biological history is interpreted and inferred from information stored in rock strata and fossil evidence

The plate tectonic theory explains the changes that occur within Earth and to Earth’s crust throughout geological time

The form, arrangement, and structure of rocks are affected by three-dimensional forces over time

Weathering and erosion processes continually reshape landscapes through the interaction of the geosphere with the hydrosphere and atmosphere

classification of minerals

earthquakes and analysis of seismic waves

First Peoples knowledge of geologic events

internal and external factors that affect the plasticity of rock strata

faulting and folding

geologic maps, cross-sections, and block diagrams

weathering and erosion processes

First Peoples knowledge of landforms over time

periods of glaciation

groundwater and aquifers

causes and controls of mass wasting

processes of rock formation: — igneous — sedimentary — metamorphic

B.C. resource deposits and others: — origin and formation — economic, environmental, and First Peoples considerations

the geologic time scale and major events in Earth’s history

the local and global fossil record: — evidence of evolution — methods of fossil formation — First Peoples perspectives

methods for relative and absolute dating of rocks, fossils, and geologic events

reconstruction of Earth’s past through correlation of fossil data and rock strata

the formation of volcanic and deformational features through plate movement

evidence that supports a layered model of Earth

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Content

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Measurement of motion depends on our frame of reference.

Forces can cause linear and circular motion.

Forces and energy interactions occur within fields.

Momentum is conserved within a closed and isolated system.

frames of reference

gravitational dynamics and energy relationships

electric field and Coulomb's law

electric potential energy, electric potential, and electric potential difference

electrostatic dynamics and energy relationships

magnetic field and magnetic force

electromagnetic induction

applications of electromagnetic induction

impulse and momentum

conservation of momentum and energy in collisions

graphical methods in physics

relative motion within a stationary reference frame

postulates of special relativity

relativistic effects within a moving reference frame

static equilibrium

uniform circular motion:<ul><li>centripetal force and acceleration</li><li>changes to apparent weight</li></ul>

First Peoples knowledge and applications of forces in traditional technologies

gravitational field and Newton's law of universal gravitation

gravitational potential energy

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Measurement of motion depends on our frame of reference

Forces can cause linear and circular motion

Forces and energy interactions occur within fields

Momentum is conserved within a closed and isolated system

frames of reference

gravitational dynamics and energy relationships

electric field and Coulomb’s law

electric potential energy, electric potential, and electric potential difference

electrostatic dynamics and energy relationships

magnetic field and magnetic force

electromagnetic induction

applications of electromagnetic induction

impulse and momentum

conservation of momentum and energy in collisions

graphical methods in physics

relative motion within a stationary reference frame

postulates of special relativity

relativistic effects within a moving reference frame

static equilibrium

uniform circular motion: — centripetal force and acceleration — changes to apparent weight

First Peoples knowledge and applications of forces in traditional technologies

gravitational field and Newton’s law of universal gravitation

gravitational potential energy

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Content Learning Standards

Curricular Competencies

Big Ideas

Biodiversity is dependent on the complex interactions and processes between biotic and abiotic factors.

Rock layers and the fossil record reflect geologic changes through time.

Climate change impacts biodiversity and ecosystem health.

All members of a species have common characteristics that evolve over time.

Our evolving understanding of genetics has implications for health, society, and environment.

Chemical reactions are due to energy changes that result from the breaking and re-formation of bonds.

Changes in equilibrium drive chemical processes.

Energy is always conserved.

Forces interact within fields and cause linear and circular motions.

Geologic materials can change as they cycle through the geosphere and can be used as resources.

model of the atom

characteristics and classification of planets

stellar evolution (life cycles of stars)

space technologies

species and ecological roles

taxonomic principles for classifying organ

aquatic ecosystem functions and services

organic compounds

chemical analysis techniques

shifts in equilibrium driving chemical processes

the body's internal regulation

atomic spectra

organ systems of fish and other aquatic species

human impact on local and global ecosystems

First Peoples concepts of interconnectedness with land and place

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)

fisheries and aquatic resource management

sustainable resource practices

restoration and stewardship practices in local and global environments

periodic table

translational and rotational equilibrium

apparent weight

gravitational field and Newton's law of universal gravitation

gravitational potential energy

orbital and celestial mechanics:<ul><li>uniform circular motion</li><li>gravitational dynamics and energy relationships</li><li>Newton's laws of motion</li><li>Kepler's laws of planetary motion</li><li>conservation of energy and momentum</li><li>applications of relativity</li><li>formation of the universe</li><li>astronomical objects</li><li>solar system (the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets)</li><li>outside the solar system (stars, stellar groups, planets, galaxies, nebulae)</li><li>interstellar medium, interstellar radiation field</li></ul>

characteristics and classification of stars

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism, and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:<ul><li>significant figures</li><li>uncertainty</li><li>scientific notation</li></ul>

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Content

Curricular Competencies

at least three of the following: — related Content from Anatomy and Physiology 12 — related Content from Chemistry 11 — related Content from Chemistry 12— related Content from Earth Sciences 11 — related Content from Environmental Science 11 — related Content from Environmental Science 12 — related Content from Geology 12 — related Content from Life Sciences 11 — related Content from Physics 11 — related Content from Physics 12 — related Content from Science for Citizens 11

any additional content not covered by the above

Questioning and predicting

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods

Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: — significant figures — uncertainty — scientific notation

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies

Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs, models, and/or diagrams

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

Evaluating

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and in primary and secondary sources

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism, and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations to evaluate claims in primary and secondary sources

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Critically analyze the validity of information in primary and secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

Assess risks in the context of personal safety and social responsibility

Applying and innovating

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Co-operatively design projects with local and/or global connections and applications

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Implement multiple strategies to solve problems in real-life, applied, and conceptual situations

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Communicating

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Communicate scientific ideas and information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

meiosis

mitosis

Big Ideas

human sexual reproduction

different forms

Questioning and predicting

Planning and conducting

Processing and analyzing data and information

Evaluating

Applying and innovating

Communicating

Science

Curricular Competencies

Content

asexual reproduction:

Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

Experience and interpret the local environment

Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest

Cells are derived from cells.

sexual reproduction:

Communicate scientific ideas, claims, information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

Transfer and apply learning to new situations

Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data

Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

Assess risks and address ethical, cultural and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods and those of others

Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly complex ones, about the natural world

The electron arrangement of atoms impacts their chemical nature.

element properties as organized in the periodic table

Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving

Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables (dependent and independent) and identifying inconsistencies

Select and use appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Electric current is the flow of electric charge.

The arrangement of electrons determines the compounds formed by elements

Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and secondary sources

Construct, analyze and interpret graphs (including interpolation and extrapolation), models and/or diagrams

Ensure that safety and ethical guidelines are followed in their investigations

The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.

circuits must be complete for electrons to flow

Consider the role of scientists in innovation

Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

voltage, current, and resistance

Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

effects of solar radiation on the cycling of matter and energy

Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism, and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations and to evaluate claims in secondary sources

matter cycles within biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems

Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

sustainability of systems

Critically analyze the validity of information in secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

First Peoples knowledge of interconnectedness and sustainability