Science, Grade 9 (De-streamed)
Ontario · Grade 9 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: STEM Skills and Connections
Applying safe practices and procedures, including WHMIS, to hands-on investigations; designing experiments and prototypes for STEM-related occupations, describing how scientific innovations and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence affect society and careers, analysing how science is economically, culturally, and socially contextualized, applying scientific-literacy skills to social and environmental issues, and analysing contributions to science from various communities including communities in Canada.
- WHMIS and safe practices for hands-on investigations
- Designing an experiment or prototype for a STEM occupation
- How innovations and AI affect society and careers
- Science in its economic, cultural, and social context
- Scientific literacy on social and environmental issues
- Contributions to science from various communities
Unit 2: Biology: Sustainable Ecosystems and the Impact of Human Activities
Assessing the impacts of climate change on ecosystem sustainability and on communities in Canada, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities; and understanding the dynamic equilibrium of ecosystems — sphere interactions, cycling of matter and flow of energy, cellular respiration and photosynthesis, sustainability factors, human impacts, climate-change indicators, and sustainable agriculture.
- Climate-change impacts on ecosystem sustainability
- Initiatives for combatting climate change
- Personal and community solutions to climate-change impacts
- Climate-change impacts on communities in Canada
- Sustainable practices and dynamic equilibrium
- Interactions of the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere
- Cycling of matter and flow of energy
- Cellular respiration and photosynthesis
- Factors and processes in ecosystem sustainability
- Human activities and dynamic equilibrium
- Indicators of climate change
- Sustainable practices in agriculture
Unit 3: Chemistry: Exploring Matter
Assessing the impacts of elements, compounds, and associated technologies; and understanding the nature of matter — properties important for ecosystem equilibrium, atomic models and experimental evidence, subatomic particles and the Bohr-Rutherford model, the link between periodic-table position and atomic structure, patterns in the periodic table, properties of elements and compounds, and chemical formulas.
- Impacts of consumer-product life cycles
- Impacts of emerging chemical technologies
- Properties of matter and ecosystem equilibrium
- Atomic models and experimental evidence
- Subatomic particles and the Bohr-Rutherford model
- Periodic-table position and atomic structure
- Patterns in the periodic table
- Properties of elements and compounds
- Structure and chemical formulas of compounds
Unit 4: Physics: Electrical Energy and Its Transfer
Assessing the impacts of electrical-energy production and consumption and planning sustainable action; and understanding electricity — charge behaviour in static and current electricity, conductivity, DC-circuit components and SI units, the current–potential difference–resistance relationship (Ohm's law) and its application, series and parallel circuits, the difference between electricity and electrical energy, and device efficiency and energy transformations.
- Benefits and challenges of electricity sources
- Electricity's community impacts and sustainability
- A plan of action for an energy issue
- Impacts of emerging electrical technologies
- Behaviour of electric charges
- Conductivity of materials
- DC-circuit components and SI units
- Deriving Ohm's law
- Applying Ohm's law
- Series and parallel circuits
- Electricity versus electrical energy
- Device efficiency and energy transformations
Unit 5: Earth and Space Science: The Solar System and the Universe
Evaluating the impacts of space observation and exploration and their contributions to understanding Earth; and understanding the solar system and universe — the Sun's importance, how the Sun's energy drives natural phenomena and renewable energy, evidence for the origin and evolution of the universe, the components of the solar system and universe, quantifying astronomical distances, and the causes of astronomical phenomena observed from Earth.
- Impacts of space observation and exploration
- Space technology and understanding Earth
- Space innovations applied on Earth
- The Sun and its importance
- The Sun's energy and natural phenomena
- Evidence for the origin of the universe
- Components of the solar system and universe
- Quantifying distances in space
- Causes of astronomical phenomena
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