| Curricular Competency |
Understanding context- Engage in user-centred research to determine design opportunities and barriers
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Textiles 10 |
Applied Design |
| Keyword: user-centred research |
Elaboration: research done directly with potential users to understand how they do things and why, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about the world, and what is meaningful to them |
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| Big Ideas |
The formation of the universe can be explained by the big bang theory. |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: universe |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:What evidence supports the big bang theory?How could you model the formation of the universe?How has the advancement of technology deepened our understanding of the universe? |
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| Big Ideas |
Energy is conserved, and its transformation can affect living things and the environment. |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Energy |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:Where does energy come from and what happens to it?How does energy in the form of radiation affect living things?How do energy transformations affect the environment? |
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| Big Ideas |
Energy change is required as atoms rearrange in chemical processes. |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: chemical processes |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:In what ways do atoms rearrange during reactions?How is energy involved in chemical processes?How do chemical processes — personal, local, or global — affect your life?What safety considerations need to be taken into account when dealing with chemicals? |
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| Big Ideas |
DNA is the basis for the diversity of living things. |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: DNA |
Elaboration: Sample questions to support inquiry with students:How does DNA result in biodiversity?How is the structure of DNA related to the function of DNA?How do mutations occur? |
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| Content |
astronomical data and collection methods |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: astronomical data and collection methods |
Elaboration: different types of data are collected and analyzed as evidence to support theories about the universe (e.g., radio telescopes, background microwave radiation, red and blue Doppler shift, Mars rover, SNOLAB, ISS, Canadarm/Dextre) |
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| Content |
formation of the universe:- big bang theory
- components of the universe over time
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Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: components of the universe over time |
Elaboration: changes to energy, matter, fundamental forces |
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| Content |
local and global impacts of energy transformations from technologies |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: impacts of energy transformations |
Elaboration: pollution, habitat destruction, carbon dioxide output |
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| Content |
transformation of energy |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: transformation of energy |
Elaboration: transfer of energy in closed and open systemsheat (Q = mc∆ T) |
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| Content |
potential and kinetic energy |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: potential |
Elaboration: stored energy (gravitational PE = mgh) |
| Keyword: kinetic |
Elaboration: energy of motion (translational KE = 1/2 mv2) |
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| Content |
law of conservation of energy |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
nuclear energy and radiation |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: nuclear energy |
Elaboration: fission versus fusionnuclear technologies and implications (e.g., nuclear power, medical isotopes, tanning beds, dental X-rays, food irradiation, radioactive dating)positive and negative impacts, including environmental, health, economic |
| Keyword: radiation |
Elaboration: ionizing versus non-ionizingalpha, beta, gamma |
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| Content |
practical applications and implications of chemical processes, including First Peoples knowledge |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: practical applications and implications of chemical processes |
Elaboration: household chemical safety (e.g., ammonia and bleach), combustion (e.g., forest fire, fire triangle, kindling temperature, ignition point, oxygen concentration), polymer chemistry, semiconductors, resource extraction (e.g., ore, fracking), pulp and paper chemistry, food chemistry, corrosion/prevention, tanning, traditional medicines, phytochemistry, pharmaceuticals, environmental remediation, water quality, oil spill cleanup |
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| Content |
energy change during chemical reactions |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: energy change |
Elaboration: exothermic and endothermicactivation energy |
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| Content |
law of conservation of mass |
Science 10 |
No CCG |
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