Science Core Competencies:
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
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
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
Science Curricular Competencies:
● Questioning and predicting
● Planning and conducting
● Processing and analyzing data and information
● Evaluating
● Applying and innovating
● Communicating
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.)
Grade 10:
● Rearrangement of atoms in chemical reactions
○ types include synthesis, decomposition, single-double replacement, combustion/oxidation, neutralization
Chemistry 11:
● applications of organic chemistry
○ First Peoples traditional practices (e.g., medicines), pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, polymers, cosmetics, metabolism, agriculture, food, biotechnology
Non-Consumables:
○ Mixing bowls/paper cups
○ Measuring spoons
○ Slotted spoon
○ Whisk
○ Paper plate
Consumables:
○ Sodium Alginate
○ Calcium Chloride
○ Water
■ Optional: Juice and food coloring