| Curricular Competency |
Planning and conducting |
Environmental Science 11 |
Planning and conducting |
| Keyword: Planning and conducting |
Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:How can we measure the level of biodiversity within a local stream?How would you gather data about the human activities that have shaped your local environment?What tools and technologies can you use to determine your local ecological footprint?How would you gather data on the population size and distribution of an invasive species and native species? |
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| Curricular Competency |
Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes |
Environmental Science 11 |
Questioning and predicting |
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| Curricular Competency |
Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world |
Environmental Science 11 |
Questioning and predicting |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest |
Environmental Science 11 |
Questioning and predicting |
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| Curricular Competency |
Questioning and predicting |
Environmental Science 11 |
Questioning and predicting |
| Keyword: Questioning and predicting |
Elaboration: Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:What is the level of biodiversity within a local stream?What type of human activities has an ecosystem in your local area sustained over the years?Which of your actions and decisions do you think influence your ecological footprint?How detrimental are invasive plants in your local ecosystem? |
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| Big Ideas |
Mechanical waves transfer energy but not matter. |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: waves |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What are the factors that affect wave behaviours?How would you investigate the relationships between the properties of a wave and properties of the medium?How can you determine which harmonics are audible in different musical instruments? |
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| Big Ideas |
Energy is found in different forms, is conserved, and has the ability to do work. |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Energy |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What is the relationship between work, energy, and power in a system?How are the conservation laws applied in parallel and series circuits?Why can’t a machine be 100% efficient? |
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| Big Ideas |
Forces influence the motion of an object. |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Forces |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:How can forces change the motion of an object?How can Newton’s laws be used to explain changes in motion? |
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| Big Ideas |
An object’s motion can be predicted, analyzed, and described. |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: motion |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:How can uniform motion and uniform acceleration be modelled?How can the path of a projectile be changed? |
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| Content |
graphical methods in physics |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: graphical methods |
Elaboration: plotting of linear relationships given a physical model (e.g., uniform motion, resistance)calculation of the slope of a line of best fit, including significant figures and appropriate unitsinterpolation and extrapolation data from a constructed graph (e.g., position, instantaneous velocity)calculations and interpretations of area under the curve on a constructed graph (e.g., displacement, work) |
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| Content |
resonance and frequency of sound |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: frequency |
Elaboration: for example, harmonic, fundamental/natural, beat frequency |
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| Content |
characteristics of sound |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: characteristics |
Elaboration: for example, pitch, volume, speed, Doppler effect, sonic boom |
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| Content |
properties and behaviours of waves |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: properties and behaviours |
Elaboration: properties: differences between the properties of a wave and the properties of the medium, periodic versus pulsebehaviours: reflection (open and fixed end), refraction, transmission, diffraction, interference, Doppler shift, standing waves, interference patterns, law of superposition |
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| Content |
generation and propagation of waves |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: propagation of waves |
Elaboration: transverse versus longitudinallinear versus circular |
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| Content |
thermal equilibrium and specific heat capacity |
Physics 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: thermal equilibrium |
Elaboration: as an application of law of conservation of energy (e.g., calorimeter) |
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