| Curricular Competency |
Identify, critique, and use a variety of sources of inspiration and information |
Financial Accounting 12 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: sources of inspiration |
Elaboration: may include experiences, users, experts, thought leaders |
| Keyword: information |
Elaboration: may include industry best practices, professionals, experts, secondary sources, collective pools of knowledge in communities and collaborative atmospheres both online and offline |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify criteria for success, constraints, and possible unintended negative consequences |
Financial Accounting 12 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: constraints |
Elaboration: limiting factors, such as legal requirements and ramifications, expenses, ease of use, labour intensiveness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Conduct research to acquire a deep understanding of the issue and its context |
Financial Accounting 12 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: research |
Elaboration: for example, with the client/business to understand, when, where, why, and how they provide their products and services and to determine the best-fit accounting system/ledger for the task/service at hand |
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| Big Ideas |
Astronomy seeks to explain the origin and interactions of Earth and its solar system. |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Earth and its solar system |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:How was the solar system formed?Why is Earth the only planet in our solar system that supports life? |
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| Big Ideas |
The distribution of water has a major influence on weather and climate. |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: water |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:How is the hydrosphere connected with the geosphere and the atmosphere?Why might water be considered Earth’s most important resource? |
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| Big Ideas |
The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather, and this transfer is affected by climate change. |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: atmosphere |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What are the relationships between heat transfer in the atmosphere and weather?Why are extreme weather events predicted to become more frequent in the future? |
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| Big Ideas |
Plate tectonic theory explains the consequences of tectonic plate interactions. |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Plate tectonic theory |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What determines the type and distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes?How does the local plate tectonic setting affect the people and geography of a region? |
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| Big Ideas |
Earth materials are changed as they cycle through the geosphere and are used as resources, with economic and environmental implications. |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Earth materials |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What role does the rock cycle play in the diversity of earth materials?What criteria must be met for an earth material to be considered a “resource”? |
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| Content |
application of space technologies to the study of changes in Earth and its systems |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
impacts of the Earth-moon-sun system |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Earth-moon-sun system |
Elaboration: for example, tides, eclipses, seasonal variation, albedo, precession, moon phases, solar winds |
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| Content |
stars as the centre of a solar system |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: stars |
Elaboration: stellar classification, life cycle, magnitude, brightness |
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| Content |
Earth as a unique planet within its solar system |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Earth as a unique planet |
Elaboration: for example, presence of water, life, protective magnetic field, temperature, atmosphere |
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| Content |
the nebular hypothesis (explanation of the formation and properties of our solar system) |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
effects of climate change on water sources |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: effects of climate change |
Elaboration: for example, ocean acidification, changes to ocean currents, loss of glaciers, rising sea levels |
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| Content |
influences of large bodies of water on local and global climates |
Earth Sciences 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: local and global climates |
Elaboration: local: on-shore breeze, temperature moderationglobal: oceans as carbon sink, albedo effect |
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