What grade 10's are up to

Thursday, January 22, 2009

My "informant" just told me that the grade 10 science curriculum is changing next year: the unit on weather is being replaced by a unit on climate change. Perfect.

Pages 78-79 of the following document give specifics on the learning objectives the ministry has for this new unit:
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/science910_2008.pdf

Here's the summary:
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
  1. analyse some of the effects of climate change around the world, and assess the effectiveness of initiatives that attempt to address the issue of climate change;
  2. investigate various natural and human factors that influence Earth's climate and climate change;
  3. demonstrate an understanding of natural and human factors, including the greenhouse effect, that influence Earth's climate and contribute to climate change;
Curriculum details for Grades 1-12 can be found through the EcoSchools initiative, with the Grade 10 curriculum resources specifically found here (this file crashes my PDF viewer; I've uploaded a fixed version here).

The EcoSchools documentation includes a list of web resources, but all of them contain very static pages. That is, there is no equivalent of the JCM for the young'uns, though. Hmmm.

1 comment:

gvwilson said...

Chance favors the prepared graduate student :-)

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