Science 24 - Unit A: Applications of Matter and Chemical Change
Outcomes:
1. Describe how everyday life depends upon technological products and processes that produce useful materials and energy.
2. Investigate and classify chemical reactions.
3. Explain the law of conservation of mass when balancing chemical reactions.
4. Analyze common technological products and processes encountered in everyday life and careers, and analyze their potential effects on the environment.
Key Concepts
- Evidence of chemical change
- Writing and interpreting word and chemical equations
- Conservation of mass in chemical change
- Environmental effects of chemical change technologies
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Science 24 - Unit B: Understanding Common Energy Conversion Systems
Outcomes:
1. Investigate and interpret transformation and conservation of various forms of energy in physical and technological systems.
2. Investigate and analyze electrical energy conversion devices in terms of energy conversions, rate of energy transfer and efficiency.
3. Investigate and describe the energy conversions associated with change in chemical and biological systems.
4. Analyze and describe the impact of fossil fuel based technologies and their importance in meeting human needs.
Key Concepts
- Energy transformation and conservation
- Rate of energy transfer and efficiency
- Formation, extraction and combustion of fossil fuels
- Fossil fuel based technologies and quality of life for future generations
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Science 24 - Unit C: Disease Defence and Human Health
Outcomes:
1. Describe how human health is affected by societal and environmental factors, and describe the need for action by society to improve human health.
2. Analyze the relationship between human health and environmental pathogens.
3. Describe the natural mechanisms that protect the human organism from pathogens.
4. Describe the role of genes in inherited characteristics and human health.
5. Analyze how longevity in humans has increased over time as a result of a better understanding of pathogens and genetics, and improved sanitary conditions and personal hygiene.
Key Concepts
- Social impact on human health
- Communicable and noncommunicable diseases
- Role of the human body’s defence systems
- Natural and artificial immunization
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Science 24 - Unit D: Motion, Change and Transportation Safety
Outcomes:
1. Use explanatory models from their own learning in science or personal experience to distinguish between scientific and personal opinion and to analyze the need for safety systems and regulations.
2. Describe the change in position and speed of objects mathematically and graphically.
3. Apply concepts of force, mass and the law of conservation of momentum to investigateone- dimensional collisions of two objects.
4. Apply the principles underlying the motion of objects to explain the need for safety devices and practices.
Key Concepts
- Reaction time, speed and safe following distance
- Graphical and mathematical analysis of the relationships among speed, distance and time - Collisions and conservation of momentum
- Safety systems designed to reduce impact of collisions
- Transportation safety regulations
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