Current Topics in the Sciences, Grade 11 (Current Topics in the Sciences 30S)
Manitoba · Grade 11 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Nature of Science and Technology
What science and technology are, and how they relate: their goals, methods, products, and values; the power and limits of science; how history and culture shape them; how they advance one another; and the disciplinary and interdisciplinary processes of inquiry.
- Science versus technology: goals and methods
- Science versus technology: products and values
- The power of science to explain the world
- The limitations of science
- How history shapes a society's philosophy of science
- How culture shapes a society's creation and use of technology
- How technology advances science
- How science advances technology
- Disciplinary processes of inquiry
- Interdisciplinary processes of inquiry
Unit 2: Science, Technology, Society, and the Environment
How science and technology, society, and the environment shape one another: the impact of developments, the influence of human needs and context, the factors and habits behind health, science-related careers, and actions for sustainability.
- Describing scientific and technological developments
- Appreciating the impact of developments on people and the environment
- How human needs drive science and technology
- How societal and historical context shapes science and technology
- Factors that affect health
- How personal habits and lifestyle choices relate to health
- Knowing the range of science- and technology-related interests and careers
- Personal consideration of science- and technology-related paths
- Identifying actions that promote sustainability
- Demonstrating a sustainable action
Unit 3: Essential Concepts
The big cross-disciplinary ideas that organize all of science: similarity and diversity, systems and their interactions across scales and time, change/constancy/equilibrium, and energy as the driving force.
- Using similarity to organize experience
- Using diversity to distinguish and differentiate
- The universe as interacting systems
- Systems across many scales and intervals of time
- Change and constancy
- Equilibrium and its conditions
- Energy as the driving force in materials and life
- Energy as the driving force in the functioning of systems
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