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Grade
Content ways to represent basic data types Computer Science 11 No CCG
Keyword: basic data types Elaboration: number systems (e.g., binary, hexadecimal)strings, integers, characters, floating point
Curricular Competency Assess the credibility and justifiability of evidence, data, and interpretations (evidence) Explorations in Social Studies 11 No CCG
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Curricular Competency Assess the justification for competing accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence, including data (evidence) Francophone History and Culture 11 No CCG
Keyword: Assess the justification for competing accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence, including data Elaboration: Key questions:What criteria should be used to assess the reliability of a source?How much evidence is sufficient in order to support a conclusion?How much about various people, places, events, and developments can be known and how much is unknowable?Sample activities:Compare and contrast multiple accounts of the same event and evaluate their usefulness as historical sources.Examine what sources are available and what sources are missing, and evaluate how the available evidence shapes your perspective on the people, places, events, and developments studied.
Content Information and Communications Technologies
  • text-based coding
  • binary representation of various data types, including text, sound, pictures, video
  • drag-and-drop mobile development
  • programming modular components
  • development and collaboration in a cloud-based environment
  • design and function of networking hardware and topology, including wired and wireless network router types, switches, hubs, wireless transfer systems, and client-server relationships
  • functions of operating systems, including mobile, open source, and proprietary systems
  • current and future impacts of evolving web standards and cloud-based technologies
  • design for the web
  • strategies for curating and managing personal digital content, including management, personalization, organization, maintenance, contribution, creation, and publishing of digital content
  • relationships between technology and social change
  • strategies to manage and maintain personal learning networks, including content consumption and creation
  • keyboarding techniques
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 No CCG
Keyword: text-based coding Elaboration: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Keyword: drag-and-drop mobile development Elaboration: for example, Vizwik
Keyword: modular components Elaboration: for example, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, LEGO Mindstorms
Keyword: cloud-based environment Elaboration: for example, Cloud 9, GitHub
Keyword: wireless transfer systems Elaboration: for example, NFID, Bluetooth, mobile payments
Keyword: impacts Elaboration: potential to support collaboration, sharing, and communication; data storage and privacy
Keyword: design for the web Elaboration: digital creation and manipulation of videos and images for a web-based purpose
Keyword: relationships Elaboration: for example, local and global impacts of evolving communication and mobile devices, socio-economic digital divide, technology and gender, social media and social movements, social media and politics, inequality of access, technology and democracy, information as a commodity
Keyword: personal learning networks Elaboration: personalized digital instructional tools to share and authenticate learning
Keyword: content consumption and creation Elaboration: web forums, tutorials, videos, digital resources, listservs, global communities, group communication and etiquette, online learning, MOOCS, open courseware, broadcasting
Keyword: keyboarding techniques Elaboration: for example, physical hand and foot placement, posture, development of touch typing skills, use of “home row” ASDFJKL techniques
Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify sources of feedback
  • Develop an appropriate test of the prototype
  • Conduct the test, collect and compile data, evaluate data, and decide on changes
  • Iterate the prototype or abandon the design idea
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of feedback Elaboration: may include peers; users; keepers of traditional cultural knowledge and approaches, including those of First Peoples; and other experts
Keyword: appropriate test Elaboration: consider conditions, number of trials
Content business approach to creating and formatting documents and using custom tools for enhancement, including:
  • e-mail protocol and etiquette
  • header, footer, table of contents, mail merge, font, word art, text box
  • business protocol, formality, and tone in business documents and applications
  • formulas and functions in a spreadsheet
  • design, creation, and manipulation of databases and database objects
  • calendar scheduling, viewing, and syncing, including resource scheduling in shared calendars
  • narration, custom animations, and effects in presentation software
  • notetaking and note-management software
  • brochures, flyers, calendars, publications, and other business communications
Business Computer Applications 12 No CCG
Keyword: documents Elaboration: for example, business letters, research documents, flyers, spreadsheets, tables, graphs, charts, posters
Keyword: databases and database objects Elaboration: for example, tables, fields, records, views, queries, forms, reports
Curricular Competency Use business productivity software to manipulate data and find solutions to business problems Business Computer Applications 12 Applied Technologies
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Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify and communicate with sources of feedback
  • Develop an appropriate test of the prototype, conduct the test, and collect and compile data
  • Apply information from critiques, testing results, and success criteria to make changes
Electronics 11 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of feedback Elaboration: may include peers; users; First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; other experts and professionals both online and offline
Keyword: appropriate test Elaboration: includes evaluating the degree of authenticity required for the setting of the test, deciding on an appropriate type and number of trials, and collecting and compiling data
Curricular Competency Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of their data Science for Citizens 11 Evaluating
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Curricular Competency Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables, performing calculations, and identifying inconsistencies Science for Citizens 11 Processing and analyzing data and information
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Curricular Competency Processing and analyzing data and information Science for Citizens 11 Processing and analyzing data and information
Keyword: Processing and analyzing data and information Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:Construct a graph, table, or model to illustrate data from food packaging (e.g., nutrients, ingredients, price).In what ways are data related to forest fire frequency analyzed, interpreted, and communicated?Use scientific evidence about the benefits and risks associated with genetically modified organisms (GMO) to support your conclusions on genetically modified vegetables.Describe a First Peoples traditional healing practice and how it is understood to support healing.What data support a particular vaccination rate to provide herd immunity?What seismic activity occurs before an earthquake?How is blood pressure affected before, during, and after exercise?
Curricular Competency Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data:
  • significant figures
  • uncertainty
  • scientific notation
Science for Citizens 11 Planning and conducting
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Curricular Competency Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data Science for Citizens 11 Planning and conducting
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Curricular Competency Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative) Science for Citizens 11 Planning and conducting
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Content reconstruction of Earth’s past through correlation of fossil data and rock strata Geology 12 No CCG
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