Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Science 9
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 9 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Questioning and predicting
- Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
- Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly complex ones, about the natural world
Planning and conducting
- Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (qualitative and quantitative)
- Select and use appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data
Processing and analyzing data and information
- Experience and interpret the local environment
- Seek and analyze patterns, trends, and connections in data, including describing relationships between variables (dependent and independent) and identifying inconsistencies
- Construct, analyze and interpret graphs (including interpolation and extrapolation), models
- and/or diagrams
- Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence
- Analyze cause-and-effect relationships
Evaluating
- Evaluate their methods and experimental conditions, including identifying sources of error or uncertainty, confounding variables, and possible alternative explanations and conclusions
- Describe specific ways to improve their investigation methods and the quality of the data
- Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled
- Demonstrate an awareness of assumptions, question information given, and identify bias in their own work and secondary sources
- Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed
- Connect scientific explorations to careers in science
- Exercise a healthy, informed skepticism, and use scientific knowledge and findings to form their own investigations and to evaluate claims in secondary sources
- Consider social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations
- Critically analyze the validity of information in secondary sources and evaluate the approaches used to solve problems
Applying and innovating
- Contribute to care for self, others, community and world through personal or collaborative approaches
- Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
Communicating
- Communicate scientific ideas, claims, information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
- sexual reproduction:
- human sexual reproduction