Unit A: Energy and Matter in Chemical Change
Outcomes:
1. Describe the basic particles that make up the underlying structure of matter, and investigate related technologies.
2. Explain, using the periodic table, how elements combine to form compounds, and follow IUPAC guidelines for naming ionic compounds and simple molecular compounds.
3. Classify chemical changes, and write word and balanced chemical equation for significant chemical reactions, as applications of Lavoisier’s law of conservation of mass.
Key Concepts
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) and safe practice
- International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) nomenclature, ionic and
molecular compounds, acids and bases
- Role and need for classification of chemical change
- Writing and balancing equations
- Law of conservation of mass and the mole concept
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Unit B: Energy in Technological Systems
Outcomes:
1. Analyze and illustrate how technologies based on thermodynamic principles were developed before the laws of thermodynamics were formulated.
2. Explain and apply concepts used in theoretical and practical measures of energy in mechanical systems.
3. Apply the principles of energy conservation and thermodynamics to investigate, describe and predict efficiency of energy transformation in technological systems.
Key Concepts
- One-dimensional motion
- Mechanical energy conversions and work
- Design and function of technological systems and devices involving potential and kinetic
energy and thermal energy conversions
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Unit C: Cycling of Matter in Living Systems
Outcomes:
1. Explain the relationship between developments in imaging technology and the current understanding of the cell.
2. Describe the function of cell organelles and structures in a cell, in terms of life processes, and use models to explain these processes and their applications.
3. Analyze plants as an example of a multicellular organism with specialized structures at the cellular, tissue and system levels
Key Concepts
- Active and passive transport of matter
- Microscopy and the emergence of cell theory
- cell specialization in multicellular organisms; i.e., plants.
- mechanisms of transport, gas exchange, and environmental responsble in multicellular organisms; i.e., plants
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Unit D: Energy Flow in Global Systems
Outcomes:
1. Describe how the relationships among input solar energy, output terrestrial energy and energy flow within the biosphere affect the lives of humans and other species.
2. Analyze the relationships among net solar energy, global energy transfer processes— primarily radiation, convection and hydrologic cycle—and climate.
3. Relate climate to the characteristics of the world’s major biomes, and compare biomes in different regions of the world.
4. Investigate and interpret the role of environmental factors on global energy transfer and climate change.
Key Concepts
- Environmental monitoring, environmental impacts, energy flow, environmental management
- Thermal energy, change of state, heat transfer
- Climate, glaciers and icecaps
- Biological diversity, habitat diversity
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