Science, Grade 10

Unit 1: Career Investigation

Investigating career paths related to the branches and sub-branches of science.

• Branches of science and career paths
• Profiling a science career

Unit 2: Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics

The implications of human actions on climate and ecosystem sustainability, the factors that influence Earth's climate system, biodiversity and interactions among populations, and feedback mechanisms in biogeochemical cycles.

• Perspectives on sustainability
• Climate change indicators and actions
• Milestones and evidence in sustainability

• Weather, climate, and the climate system
• Global circulation and weather patterns
• The natural greenhouse effect

• Biomes and biodiversity
• Sampling techniques
• Population dynamics and carrying capacity
• Threats to biodiversity and bioaccumulation

• Systems and feedback mechanisms
• Cycling of carbon and nitrogen
• Indigenous knowledge and cycle interdependence

Unit 3: Chemical Reactions

The properties of chemical reactions including energy changes and acids and bases, naming and writing chemical formulas, representing reactions and conservation of mass, and the rates of chemical reactions.

• Reaction types and energy changes
• Chemistry in our lives
• Acids, bases, and pH

• Naming ionic compounds
• Naming molecular and organic compounds
• Naming acids and bases

• Representing reactions and conservation of mass
• Balancing chemical equations
• Categorizing reactions from equations

• Factors affecting reaction rate
• Investigating reaction rates

Unit 4: Force and Motion in Our World

Motion-related technologies, the motion of objects at constant speed, accelerated motion, and the relationship between force and motion in one and two dimensions.

• Development of motion technologies
• Designing for motion and measuring the imperceptible

• Representing uniform motion
• Solving uniform-motion problems

• Representing accelerated motion
• Solving acceleration problems

• Net force and force vectors
• Newton's laws and friction