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Skills available for British Columbia grade 10 science curriculum
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- British Columbia Learning Standards: Science 10 British Columbia Learning Standards: Science 10
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10.CC Curricular Competencies
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10.CC.1 Questioning and predicting
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10.CC.1.1 Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
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10.CC.1.2 Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly complex ones, about the natural world
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10.CC.1.3 Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes
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10.CC.2 Planning and conducting
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10.CC.2.1 Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)
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10.CC.2.2 Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods and those of others
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10.CC.2.3 Select and use appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data
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10.CC.2.4 Ensure that safety and ethical guidelines are followed in their investigations
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10.CC.3 Processing and analyzing data and information
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10.CC.3.1 Experience and interpret the local environment
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10.CC.3.2 Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information
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10.CC.3.3 Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables (dependent and independent) and identifying inconsistencies
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10.CC.3.4 Construct, analyze, and interpret graphs (including interpolation and extrapolation), models, and/or diagrams
- Use a codon wheel to transcribe and translate DNA sequences (10-J.4)
- Use a codon table to transcribe and translate DNA sequences (10-J.5)
- Punnett squares: Mendelian inheritance (10-K.3)
- Punnett squares: incomplete dominance and codominance (10-K.4)
- Punnett squares: multiple alleles (10-K.5)
- Construct explanations of natural selection (10-L.3)
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10.CC.3.5 Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence
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10.CC.3.6 Analyze cause-and-effect relationships
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10.CC.4 Evaluating
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10.CC.4.1 Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions
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10.CC.4.2 Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data
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10.CC.4.3 Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled
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10.CC.4.4 Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and secondary sources
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10.CC.4.5 Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed
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10.CC.4.6 Connect scientific explorations to careers in science
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10.CC.4.7 Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations and to evaluate claims in secondary sources
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10.CC.4.8 Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations
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10.CC.4.9 Critically analyze the validity of information in secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems
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10.CC.5 Applying and innovating
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10.CC.5.1 Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches
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10.CC.5.2 Transfer and apply learning to new situations
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10.CC.5.3 Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
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10.CC.5.4 Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry
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10.CC.5.5 Consider the role of scientists in innovation
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10.CC.6 Communicating
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10.CC.6.1 Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon
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10.CC.6.2 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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10.CC.6.3 Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place
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10.C Content
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10.C.1 DNA structure and function
- Structure and function: nucleic acids (10-I.1)
- Introduction to the genetic code (10-I.2)
- Protein synthesis: transcription (10-J.1)
- Read a codon wheel (10-J.2)
- Read a codon table (10-J.3)
- Use a codon wheel to transcribe and translate DNA sequences (10-J.4)
- Use a codon table to transcribe and translate DNA sequences (10-J.5)
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10.C.2 Patterns of inheritance
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10.C.3 Mechanisms for the diversity of life: mutation and its impact on evolution; natural selection and artificial selection
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10.C.4 Applied genetics and ethical considerations
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10.C.5 Rearrangement of atoms in chemical reactions
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10.C.6 Acid-base chemistry
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10.C.7 Law of conservation of mass
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10.C.8 Energy change during chemical reactions
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10.C.9 Practical applications and implications of chemical processes, including First Peoples knowledge
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10.C.10 Nuclear energy and radiation
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10.C.11 Law of conservation of energy
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10.C.12 Potential and kinetic energy
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10.C.13 Transformation of energy
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10.C.14 Local and global impacts of energy transformations from technologies
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10.C.15 Formation of the universe: big bang theory; components of the universe over time
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10.C.16 Astronomical data and collection methods