Science 14
Alberta · Grade 14 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Investigating Properties of Matter
The everyday chemistry of the products under your sink and in your kitchen — sorting substances by their properties for safe use, storage and disposal, mixing solutions, and reading the periodic table as a map of the elements around you.
- Classifying matter by its properties
- Safe use, storage and disposal
- Solutions, solubility, solutes and solvents
- Solutions in prepared foods and everyday materials
- Properties of elements and compounds
- Reading trends on the periodic table
Unit 2: Understanding Energy Transfer
Why a fridge, a furnace and a thermos all work the same way — heat always flows from hot to cold — plus the insulation that slows that flow and the simple machines (levers, pulleys, ramps) that make everyday jobs easier.
- How heating & cooling systems move heat
- Devices that control heat transfer
- Simple machines that transfer energy
- Multiplying force or distance
Unit 3: Investigating Matter & Energy in Living Systems
How your own body handles matter and energy: how the digestive and circulatory systems team up to fuel you, what goes wrong when they are out of balance, and the cells and life functions shared by every living thing.
- How the two systems exchange matter
- How digestion and circulation work together
- Why a healthy diet and lifestyle matter
- Disorders of the digestive & circulatory systems
- Plant and animal cell parts
- How the cell theory developed
- Life functions common to all living systems
Unit 4: Investigating Electromagnetic Energy
The living world around us as a set of connected cycles: how matter flows through the biosphere along set pathways that human activity can disrupt, and how a local ecosystem — a pond, a field, a park — stays in balance between its living and non-living parts.
- Cyclical flow of matter along set pathways
- How human activity disrupts the cycles
- Biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem
- What keeps an ecosystem in balance
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