Grade 10, Academic (Course Code: SNC 2D)
As prescribed by the Ontario Ministry of Education and its curriculum
Prerequisite: SNC 1D or SNC 1P - minimum of 50%
Author of Course: Kevin Leung
OME-Recommended Text: Science 10 (Nelson) By: Ritter, Plumb, Jenkins, van Kessel, Hirsch.
Secondary School Science Program Overview:
The overall aim of any secondary science program is to ensure scientific literacy for high school candidates. This goal can be achieved by meeting three overall aims for every student. The entire secondary school science program is designed to promote these goals:
1) Understand the basic concepts of science;
2) Develop skills, strategies and habits of mind required for scientific inquiry;
3) Relate science to technology, society and environment.
During the twentieth century, science has come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of all Canadians. It underpins many of the technologies that we now take for granted, from life-saving pharmaceuticals to computers and other IT components in our daily lives. There is every reason to expect that science and its impact on our lives will continue to grow as we go through the 21st century. Consequently, scientific literacy can be defined as the possession of scientific knowledge, skill and habits of the mind required to thrive in a science-based world.
Achieving excellence in scientific literacy is not the same as becoming a science specialist. The notion of thriving in a science-based world applies as much to an entrepreneur, an engineer or a lawyer. While the specific knowledge and skills required for each of theses occupations vary, the basic goal of thriving in a science-based world remains the same.
Course Outline:
This course enables students to develop a deeper understanding of concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science and physics; to develop further their skills in scientific inquiry; and to understand the interrelationships among science, technology, and the environment. Students will conduct investigations and understand scientific theories related to: ecology and the maintenance of ecosystems, chemical reactions, with particular attention to acid-based reactions; factors that influence weather systems; and motion.
Unit 1 Sustaining Ecosystems (4 Chapters)
In this unit, students will understand how ecosystems change and how they are sustained; investigate factors that affect ecosystems; and analyze issues that affect the sustainability of ecosystems.
Unit 2 Chemcial Processes (4 Chapters)
In this unit, students will describe the chemical reactions and the symbolic systems used to describe them; investigate types of reactions and the factors that control their rates; develop an awareness of societal issues related to chemical compunds and their reactions.
Unit 3 Motion (4 Chapters)
In this unit, students will understand different forms of straight-line motion including their algebraic descriptions; design and conduct investigations of uniform and accelerated motion; analyze motion and its effects in everyday phenomena and technologies.
Unit 4 Weather Dynamics (4 Chapters)
In this unit, students will understand the factors that determine and affect the processes of weather systems; investigate and anlyze trends in local and global weather ocnditions to help you forecast local and global weather patterns; evaluate how technology is helping us to understand the physical factors that affect weather.