Sustainable Chemistry

Science Core Competencies:

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Communication:

● Communicate scientific ideas, claims, information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

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Thinking:

● Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest

● Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly complex ones, about the natural world

● Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

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Personal & Social:

● Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

● Communicate scientific ideas, claims, information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations

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Science Curricular Competencies:

● Questioning and predicting

● Planning and conducting

● Processing and analyzing data and information

● Evaluating

● Applying and innovating

● Communicating

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Grade 9:

● Sustainability of systems

○ a systems approach to sustainability sees all matter and energy as interconnected and existing in dynamic equilibrium (e.g., carbon as a key factor in climate change, greenhouse effect, water cycle, etc.)

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Grade 10:

● Rearrangement of atoms in chemical reactions

○ types include synthesis, decomposition, single-double replacement, combustion/oxidation, neutralization

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Chemistry 11:

● applications of organic chemistry

○ First Peoples traditional practices (e.g., medicines), pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, polymers, cosmetics, metabolism, agriculture, food, biotechnology

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