Environmental Science, Grade 11, University/College Preparation
Ontario · Grade 11 · 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 environmental science fields 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, field study, and inquiry in the content strands rather than taught here on their own.
- Careers in environmental science
- Scientists who contributed to environmental science
Unit 2: Scientific Solutions to Contemporary Environmental Challenges
Major contemporary environmental challenges and how scientific knowledge addresses them — the causes and effects of challenges like global warming and acid precipitation, how evidence shifts paradigms, and how science responds to societal needs — investigated through lab inquiry, case studies, and media analysis.
- Issues of an environmental challenge
- Societal needs and environmental science
- Scientific-solutions terminology
- Testing an environmental procedure
- Applying science to an environmental issue
- Perspectives on environmental knowledge
- Assessing a media report
- Major environmental challenges
- Scientific processes for the environment
- New evidence and shifting paradigms
- Challenges driving science and technology
- Human activities and the environment
Unit 3: Human Health and the Environment
Environmental factors that affect human health — pollutants, contaminants, and how they enter and harm the body — investigated through water and air sampling and building-health studies, plus analysing grassroots initiatives and evaluating government initiatives that reduce environmental health impacts.
- Grassroots health initiatives
- Government health initiatives
- Human health terminology
- Longitudinal health data
- Investigating water samples
- Investigating air particulates
- Improving building health
- Main pollutants and contaminants
- Effects of environmental factors on health
- How contaminants enter the body
- Reducing exposure to contaminants
- Vulnerable populations
Unit 4: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
The conditions for plant growth and environmentally sustainable agricultural and forestry practices — soil composition, sustainable methods, and biodiversity — investigated through soil and compost testing and landscaping design, plus evaluating the impact of agricultural and forestry practices on health, economy, and environment.
- Impact of practices on economy and environment
- Impact of practices on human health
- Sustainable agriculture terminology
- Testing soil
- Investigating compost
- Preparing a soil mixture
- Sustainable management methods
- Designing a landscaping project
- Principles and regulation of practices
- Requirements for plant growth
- Soil components for plant growth
- Maintaining soil structure and fertility
- Maintaining biodiversity and productivity
- Sustainable water management
Unit 5: Reducing and Managing Waste
The nature and types of waste and strategies for its management — waste categories, remediation, and processing principles — investigated through micro-environment treatment, life-cycle studies, and a school waste audit, plus analysing the considerations affecting waste strategies and evaluating a specific waste's impact.
- Considerations affecting waste strategies
- Impact of a specific waste
- Waste management terminology
- Treating waste in a micro-environment
- Waste over a product's life cycle
- School waste audit
- Investigating a waste management practice
- Categories of waste
- Waste remediation practices
- Principles of waste processing
- Collection and storage of waste
- Science in waste management
Unit 6: Conservation of Energy
Energy production, consumption, and conservation across renewable and non-renewable sources — sustainable energy systems, efficiency, and greenhouse-gas reduction — investigated through household and building energy audits, alternative-energy models, and insulation tests, plus assessing energy sources' impact and proposing a plan to reduce consumption.
- Impact of energy sources
- Reducing non-renewable energy consumption
- Costs and benefits of energy sources
- Energy conservation terminology
- Household energy consumption
- Energy audit of a home or business
- Building an alternative-energy device
- Testing insulation
- History and impact of energy sources
- Characteristics of a sustainable energy system
- Renewable and non-renewable energy production
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Technology to reduce energy consumption
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