Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Biodiversity is dependent on the complex interactions and processes between biotic and abiotic factors.
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.
Rock layers and the fossil record reflect geologic changes through time.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
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
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
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