British Columbia

9.CC Curricular Competencies

• 9.CC.1 Questioning and predicting

  • 9.CC.1.1 Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest

  • 9.CC.1.2 Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly complex ones, about the natural world

    • Identify the experimental question (9-A.4)
    • Identify questions that can be investigated with a set of materials (9-A.5)

  • 9.CC.1.3 Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

• 9.CC.2 Planning and conducting

  • 9.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)

    • The process of scientific inquiry (9-A.1)

  • 9.CC.2.2 Assess risks and address ethical, cultural and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods and those of others

  • 9.CC.2.3 Select and use appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data

    • Identify laboratory tools (9-B.1)

  • 9.CC.2.4 Ensure that safety and ethical guidelines are followed in their investigations

    • Laboratory safety equipment (9-B.3)

• 9.CC.3 Processing and analyzing data and information

  • 9.CC.3.1 Experience and interpret the local environment

  • 9.CC.3.2 Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information

  • 9.CC.3.3 Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables (dependent and independent) and identifying inconsistencies

    • Identify control and experimental groups (9-A.2)
    • Identify independent and dependent variables (9-A.3)

  • 9.CC.3.4 Construct, analyze and interpret graphs (including interpolation and extrapolation), models and/or diagrams

    • Interpret a Serengeti food web (9-M.1)
    • Interpret an Antarctic food web (9-M.2)

  • 9.CC.3.5 Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

    • The carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions (9-W.3)
    • The carbon cycle: geosphere processes and interactions (9-W.4)

  • 9.CC.3.6 Analyze cause-and-effect relationships

    • The carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions (9-W.3)
    • The carbon cycle: geosphere processes and interactions (9-W.4)

• 9.CC.4 Evaluating

  • 9.CC.4.1 Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions

  • 9.CC.4.2 Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data

  • 9.CC.4.3 Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled

  • 9.CC.4.4 Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and secondary sources

  • 9.CC.4.5 Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed

  • 9.CC.4.6 Connect scientific explorations to careers in science

  • 9.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

  • 9.CC.4.8 Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others' investigations

  • 9.CC.4.9 Critically analyze the validity of information in secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems

• 9.CC.5 Applying and innovating

  • 9.CC.5.1 Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches

  • 9.CC.5.2 Transfer and apply learning to new situations

  • 9.CC.5.3 Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving

  • 9.CC.5.4 Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry

  • 9.CC.5.5 Consider the role of scientists in innovation

• 9.CC.6 Communicating

  • 9.CC.6.1 Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon

  • 9.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

  • 9.CC.6.3 Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place

9.C Content

• 9.C.1 Asexual reproduction: mitosis; different forms

  • Introduction to cell division (9-H.1)
  • The cell cycle (9-H.2)
  • Describe phases of mitosis and the cell cycle (9-H.3)
  • Identify phases of mitosis and the cell cycle in plant cells (9-H.4)

• 9.C.2 Sexual reproduction: meiosis; human sexual reproduction

  • Sexual reproduction and genetic variation: part I (9-J.1)
  • Sexual reproduction and genetic variation: part II (9-J.2)

• 9.C.3 Element properties as organized in the periodic table

• 9.C.4 The arrangement of electrons determines the compounds formed by elements

  • Introduction to chemical bonding (9-P.1)
  • Determine which type of chemical bond can form (9-P.2)
  • Name binary ionic compounds (9-Q.1)
  • Name ionic compounds containing polyatomic ions (9-Q.2)
  • Write chemical formulas of ionic compounds (9-Q.3)

• 9.C.5 Circuits — must be complete for electrons to flow

• 9.C.6 Voltage, current, and resistance

  • Ohm's law: voltage, current and resistance (9-U.1)

• 9.C.7 Effects of solar radiation on the cycling of matter and energy

  • The chemistry of photosynthesis (9-G.1)
  • Factors affecting climate: surface ocean currents (9-X.1)

• 9.C.8 Matter cycles within biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems

  • Label parts of water cycle diagrams (9-W.1)
  • Select parts of water cycle diagrams (9-W.2)
  • The carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions (9-W.3)

• 9.C.9 Sustainability of systems

  • Interpret a Serengeti food web (9-M.1)
  • Interpret an Antarctic food web (9-M.2)
  • The carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions (9-W.3)
  • The greenhouse effect (9-X.2)

• 9.C.10 First Peoples knowledge of interconnectedness and sustainability