| Curricular Competency |
Participate in a variety of outdoor activities |
Outdoor Education 11 |
Outdoor activity skills and healthy living |
| Keyword: outdoor activities |
Elaboration: water-based, snow-based, land-based; in varied terrain and changing weather, temperature, and conditions |
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| Big Ideas |
Organisms are grouped based on common characteristics. |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Organisms |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:How is DNA analysis used to demonstrate the relatedness of species?How can morphology provide evidence for relatedness?Why do two organisms compete to coexist in the same niche? |
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| Big Ideas |
Evolution occurs at the population level. |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Evolution |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What is the role of DNA in evolution and biodiversity?What factors might influence speciation in your local environment? |
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| Big Ideas |
Life is a result of interactions at the molecular and cellular levels. |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Life |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What debates are ongoing with the terms “living” and “non-living”?What cellular processes allow organisms to live on land? |
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| Content |
similarities and differences between domains and kingdoms |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: domains and kingdoms |
Elaboration: unifying criteria for classificationhierarchical nature of diversitychanging models based on emerging knowledge |
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| Content |
First Peoples knowledge on classification |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: First Peoples knowledge on classification |
Elaboration: classification of animals based on use (e.g., traditional clothing, food, hunting seasons)classification of BC plants based on use (e.g., food, medicine) |
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| Content |
binomial nomenclature |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
taxonomic principles for classifying organisms |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: taxonomic principles |
Elaboration: taxa: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, speciesphylogenetic tree (cladogram)dichotomous key |
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| Content |
evidence for phylogenetic relationships |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: evidence for phylogenetic relationships |
Elaboration: DNA, biochemistry, anatomy, embryology, fossil evidence, biogeography |
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| Content |
trends in complexity among various life forms |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: trends in complexity |
Elaboration: symmetry, coelom, tissue development, transport, gas exchange, cephalization, reproduction, vascularization, alternation of generations, seed production |
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| Content |
single-celled and multi-celled organisms |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: single-celled and multi-celled organisms |
Elaboration: prokaryotic and eukaryoticaerobic and anaerobicsexual and asexual reproduction |
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| Content |
artificial selection and genetic modifications |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: genetic modifications |
Elaboration: gene therapy, GMOs, ethical considerations |
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| Content |
macroevolution:- speciation
- processes of macroevolution
- evidence for macroevolution
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Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: macroevolution |
Elaboration: major evolutionary changes over long periods of timeorigin of new species |
| Keyword: speciation |
Elaboration: neo-Darwinism (gradualism)punctuated equilibriumgenetic driftsexual selectionadaptive radiation |
| Keyword: processes of macroevolution |
Elaboration: divergentconvergentco-evolution |
| Keyword: evidence for macroevolution |
Elaboration: embryologymitochondrial DNAmolecular evolutionfossil record |
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| Content |
microevolution:- adaptation to changing environments
- changes in DNA
- natural selection
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Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: microevolution |
Elaboration: change within a species that occurs over time in a population |
| Keyword: changes in DNA |
Elaboration: mutations, population genetics |
| Keyword: natural selection |
Elaboration: mechanisms of gradual change |
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| Content |
First Peoples understandings of interrelationships between organisms |
Life Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: interrelationships between organisms |
Elaboration: plants as indicators of timing for corresponding events, decaying animals as plant nutrients |
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