Science, Grade 10, Academic
Ontario · Grade 10 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Investigation Skills and Careers
Careers related to the fields of science under study and the education and training they require, and scientists — including Canadians — who have contributed to those fields. The scientific investigation skills of strand A1 are woven through every lab and inquiry in strands B-E rather than taught here on their own.
- Careers in the sciences
- Scientists who contributed to these fields
Unit 2: Biology: Tissues, Organs, and Systems of Living Things
Cells, cell division and specialization, and the hierarchical organization of cells into tissues, organs, and systems in plants and animals — investigated with the microscope and dissection — plus evaluating medical and other technologies and public-health strategies related to systems biology.
- Ethical issues in systems-biology technology
- Medical imaging technologies
- Public-health strategies in systems biology
- Impact of public-health strategies on society
- Cell and system terminology
- Stages of mitosis under the microscope
- Comparing plant and animal cells
- Investigating specialized cells
- Rate of cell division in cancerous cells
- Dissecting organ systems
- Researching a disease of tissues or systems
- The cell cycle and mitosis
- Cell division and specialization
- From cells to systems
- Functions of animal systems
- Interaction of systems in an organism
Unit 3: Chemistry: Chemical Reactions
Chemical reactions — synthesis, decomposition, displacement, and acid-base neutralization — investigated through inquiry and represented with word and balanced equations, grounded in the law of conservation of mass, chemical formulae, and the pH scale, plus analysing safety and environmental issues of reactions.
- Safety and environmental issues of reactions
- Chemistry solving environmental challenges
- Chemical-reaction terminology
- Molecular models of reactions
- Investigating reaction types
- Conservation of mass inquiry
- Evidence of chemical change
- Classifying acids and bases
- Formulae, composition, and names
- Why we balance equations
- Evidence that indicates chemical change
- Writing balanced equations
- Reactants and products of reaction types
- Acid-base neutralization
- The pH scale
- Identifying compounds and writing formulae
Unit 4: Earth and Space Science: Climate Change
Earth's climate system and the natural and anthropogenic greenhouse effect — heat transfer, the water cycle and ocean currents, greenhouse-gas sources and sinks, and the causes, indicators, and effects of climate change — plus analysing climate-change effects and assessing initiatives that address it.
- Effects of climate change
- Assessing climate initiatives
- Proposing a course of action
- Climate-change terminology
- Modelling the greenhouse effect
- Evidence of climate change from data
- Testing a climate hypothesis
- Heat transfer in the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- Water's states and climate
- Ocean currents and heat transfer
- Classifying local climate
- Perspectives and bias in climate discussion
- Earth's climate system
- Heat transfer and currents
- Natural vs anthropogenic greenhouse effect
- Natural and human factors in climate
- Greenhouse-gas sources and sinks
- How gases trap heat
- Anthropogenic effects and ozone
- Indicators of climate change
Unit 5: Physics: Light and Geometric Optics
The behaviour of light — reflection in plane and curved mirrors and refraction through lenses — investigated with ray diagrams and algebraic equations, plus the electromagnetic spectrum, types of light emission, image formation, and optical phenomena, and evaluating optical technologies.
- Devices for human perception of light
- Devices that use light
- Light and optics terminology
- Investigating the laws of reflection
- Predicting images in mirrors
- Investigating refraction
- Predicting images with a converging lens
- Calculating light velocity from refractive index
- Types of light emission
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Images in plane and curved mirrors
- Total internal reflection
- Images from converging lenses
- Mirrors and lenses in instruments
- Factors affecting refraction
- Explaining optical phenomena
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