Saskatchewan

Career Investigation

• SCI10-CI1 Investigate career paths related to various branches and sub-branches of science.

Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics

• SCI10-CD1 Assess the implications of human actions on the local and global climate and the sustainability of ecosystems.

  • Evaluate claims about natural resource use: fossil fuels (10-LL.2)

• SCI10-CD2 Investigate factors that influence Earth's climate system, including the role of the natural greenhouse effect.

  • The carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions (10-M.5)
  • The carbon cycle: geosphere processes and interactions (10-M.6)
  • The greenhouse effect (10-MM.4)
  • Factors affecting climate: latitude (10-NN.2)
  • Factors affecting climate: altitude (10-NN.3)
  • Factors affecting climate: distance from the ocean (10-NN.4)
  • Factors affecting climate: surface ocean currents (10-NN.5)
  • What causes the seasons on Earth? (10-OO.1)

• SCI10-CD3 Examine biodiversity through the analysis of interactions among populations within communities.

  • Identify ecosystems (10-M.1)
  • Describe ecosystems (10-M.2)
  • Patterns of population growth (10-M.7)
  • Factors affecting carrying capacity (10-M.8)
  • Kelp forests: factors affecting biodiversity (10-N.1)

• SCI10-CD4 Investigate the role of feedback mechanisms in biogeochemical cycles and in maintaining stability in ecosystems.

  • The carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions (10-M.5)
  • The carbon cycle: geosphere processes and interactions (10-M.6)

Chemical Reactions

• SCI10-CR1 Explore the properties of chemical reactions, including the role of energy changes, and applications of acids and bases.

  • Identify exothermic and endothermic processes (10-P.1)
  • Classify chemical reactions (10-Z.1)

• SCI10-CR2 Name and write formulas for common ionic and molecular chemical compounds, including acids and bases.

  • Introduction to chemical bonding (10-U.1)
  • Determine which type of chemical bond can form (10-U.2)
  • Name binary ionic compounds (10-V.1)
  • Name ionic compounds containing polyatomic ions (10-V.2)
  • Write chemical formulas of ionic compounds (10-V.3)

• SCI10-CR3 Represent chemical reactions and conservation of mass symbolically using models, word and skeleton equations and balanced chemical equations.

  • Count atoms in chemical reactions using models (10-Y.1)
  • Count atoms in chemical equations (10-Y.2)
  • Balance chemical equations I (10-Y.3)

• SCI10-CR4 Investigate the rates of chemical reactions, including factors that affect the rate.

  • Factors that affect reaction rate (10-CC.1)

Force and Motion in Our World

• SCI10-FM1 Explore the development of motion-related technologies and their impacts on self and society.

• SCI10-FM2 Investigate and represent the motion of objects that travel at a constant speed in a straight line.

  • Distance and displacement in one dimension (10-EE.1)

• SCI10-FM3 Investigate and represent the motion of objects that undergo acceleration.

  • Acceleration in one dimension (10-EE.2)
  • Solve problems using kinematic equations (10-EE.3)

• SCI10-FM4 Explore the relationship between force and motion for objects moving in one and two dimensions.

  • Newton's laws of motion (10-FF.1)
  • Newton's first law of motion (10-FF.2)
  • Newton's second law of motion (10-FF.3)