Science 10
Nova Scotia · Grade 10 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Earth and Space Science: Weather Dynamics
How the Sun's energy drives Earth's weather - the water cycle and heat energy transfer, the atmosphere and hydrosphere as heat sinks, air and water currents, seasonal variation, and how scientists collect data and forecast the weather.
- Using weather instruments and integrating data
- Analyzing data to predict weather
- Heat energy transfer in the water cycle
- The atmosphere and hydrosphere as heat sinks
- Heat transfer and air/water currents
- Explaining seasonal and weather variation
- Canadian contributions to weather forecasting
- The impact of accurate forecasting
- Risks, benefits, and limits of forecasting responses
Unit 2: Physical Science: Chemical Reactions
Investigating matter and chemical change - lab safety and WHMIS, acids, bases and salts, neutralization, naming compounds with the IUPAC system, balancing equations and the conservation of mass, and the factors that affect how reactions proceed.
- Investigating reactions safely with WHMIS
- Identifying acids, bases, and salts
- Neutralization reactions
- Naming and writing chemical formulas
- Classifying acids, bases, and salts by formula
- Balancing equations and conservation of mass
- Factors affecting chemical reactions
- Science and technology relationships
Unit 3: Physical Science: Motion
Describing and analyzing how things move - measuring accurately, distinguishing scalar quantities (distance, time, speed) from vector quantities (position, displacement, velocity), telling constant from average and instantaneous motion, and the technology of motion.
- Accurate measurement in experiments
- Analyzing scalar and vector motion
- Constant, average, and instantaneous speed
- Design and function of motion technology
- Framing motion research questions
- Canadian contributions in motion
Unit 4: Life Science: Sustainability of Ecosystems
What keeps ecosystems healthy over time - shifting views of sustainability, biotic and abiotic factors, bioaccumulation across trophic levels, biodiversity and stability, ecosystem responses to stress and change, and making multi-perspective decisions about sustainable development.
- Shifting views of sustainability
- Biotic/abiotic factors and bioaccumulation
- Biodiversity and sustainability
- External factors and ecosystem sustainability
- Ecosystem responses to stress and change
- Geography and similar ecosystems
- Defending a course of action on an issue
- Research and sustainable development
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