Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency Group
Curricular Competency
Evaluating
Elaboration
- Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:
- Debate the economic, environmental, and social impacts of oil and gas pipelines in B.C.
- Consider the impacts of resource development on First Peoples communities and traditional territories.
- Measure various properties of rocks, sediments, and minerals, and analyze error within data samples collected.
- Analyze the evidence and approaches used to develop the various models explaining K-T boundary extinction (i.e., end of the dinosaurs).
- How can the fossil record be used as a source of evidence to support models of evolution?
- What are the limits of technology on absolute dating methods?
- Evaluate the development of various models of Earth’s internal structure and composition as tools and technologies have developed.
- Debate possible locations for landfills based on porosity and permeability of the surrounding rock layers and the implications for groundwater.
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Evaluating