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BC Science CONNECTIONS 8
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Shelagh Lim Cambridge Elementary Surrey School District #36
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Delyth Morgan Royal Oak Middle School Saanich School District #63
John Munro Rick Hansen Secondary School of Science and Business Abbotsford School District #34 James Stewart J.A. Hutton School Boundary School District #51
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Contents Safety Concepts Science Safety Symbols Safety Observations How Safe Am I?
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Unit 1 Life processes are performed at the cellular level
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Topic 1.2 Where do living things come from? Processing and Analyzing: Cell Theory Communicating: Comparing a Cell to a Virus Evaluating: Are Viruses Alive? 1.2 Assessment
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Topic 1.1 What are the characteristics of living things? Communicating: Living Versus Non-Living Processing and Analyzing: Characteristics of Living Things Evaluating: Interdependent Characteristics Applying and Innovating: Investigating Growth and Development 1.1 Assessment
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Topic 1.5 How does the body protect us from pathogens? Applying and Innovating: The First Line of Defence Evaluating: The Body’s Lines of Defence Questioning and Predicting: Flu Season Applying and Innovating: Epidemic, Outbreak, and Pandemic 1.5 Assessment
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Topic 1.6 What medicines help protect us from microbes that make us sick? Applying and Innovating: Traditional Plant Medicines Communicating: How Vaccines and Antibiotics Work Evaluating: Types of Vaccines Processing and Analyzing: How Effective are Vaccines? 1.6 Assessment
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Unit 1 AT Issue: What is the world’s deadliest animal?
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Topic 1.4 What interactions occur between humans and micro-organisms Applying and Innovating: How Small Are Microbes? Evaluating: Roles of Microbes Communicating: Useful Microbes Processing and Analyzing: Pathogens That Cause Food Poisoning 1.4 Assessment
Topic 1.3 How are cells different from one another? Communicating: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells Evaluating: The Function of Cell Structures Applying and Innovating: A Plant Cell is Like a Shopping Mall Planning and Conducting: Rate of Photosynthesis 1.3 Assessment
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Unit 2 The behavior of matter can be explained by the kinetic molecular theory and atomic theory Topic 2.1 How does matter affect your life? Communicating: Identifying Hazardous Household Products Symbols Applying and Innovating: Understanding WHMIS and HHPS Evaluating: Safety Do’s and Don’ts 2.1 Assessment
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Topic 2.2 What are some ways to describe matter? 66 Questioning and Predicting: Creating a Density Tower 68 Processing and Analyzing: Density of Different Objects 69 Planning and Conducting: Identifying Substances Based on Physical Properties 70 71 Applying and Innovating: Physical and Chemical Changes Applying and Innovating: Mixture or Pure Substance? 73 2.2 Assessment 74 78 79 80 81 82 83 84
Topic 2.4 How can we investigate and explain the composition of atoms? Applying and Innovating: Atomic Theory Timeline Planning and Conducting: Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment Processing and Analyzing: Parts of an Atom Communicating: Quarks and Leptons 2.4 Assessment
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Unit 2 AT Issue: What do engineers have to take into account when building a bridge?
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Topic 2.3 How can we describe and explain the states of matter? Applying and Innovating: Visualizing the Kinetic Molecular Theory Communicating: Properties of the States of Matter Evaluating: Changes of State Processing and Analyzing: Changes of State of Silver Planning and Conducting: Effects of Temperature on Diffusion 2.3 Assessment
Unit 3 Energy can be transferred as both a particle and a wave 100 102
Topic 3.2 How can models explain the properties of electromagnetic radiation? Communicating: Making Sense of Models Processing and Analyzing: Young’s Experiment Communicating: Parts of a Wave Processing and Analyzing: Characteristics of Waves Applying and Innovating: Another Thought Experiment 3.2 Assessment
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Topic 3.1 How does electromagnetic radiation shape your world? Communicating: Electromagnetic Radiation Applications Processing and Analyzing: How Does Electromagnetic Radiation Shape Your World? Processing and Analyzing: Using Electromagnetic Radiation to See Our World Evaluating: Electromagnetic Radiation: Plus, Minus, and Interesting 3.1 Assessment
Topic 3.4 How does light behave when it is reflected? Planning and Conducting: Practice with Protractors Evaluating: How Do the Images Formed in Mirrors Compare? Processing and Analyzing: Looking into Mirrors 3.4 Assessment
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Topic 3.5 How does light behave when it moves from one medium to another? Processing and Analyzing: Diverging and Converging Lenses Processing and Analyzing: The Parts of the Eye? Applying and Innovating: An Optical Device to Improve Eyesight Communicating: Putting the Terms Together 3.5 Assessment
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Unit 3 AT Issue: What do we need to know about blue light?
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Topic 3.3 How does light behave when it encounters different materials and surfaces? Communicating: Classifying Materials Processing and Analyzing: How Light Behaves 3.3 Assessment
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Unit 4 The theory of plate tectonics explains Earth’s geological processes 144 145 148 149 150
Topic 4.2 What are tectonic plates and how is their movement linked to geological processes? Communicating: The Lithosphere and Asthenosphere Processing and Analyzing: Plate Boundaries Planning and Conducting: Mantle Convection 4.2 Assessment
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Topic 4.3 How does the theory of plate tectonics explain Earth’s geological processes? Applying and Innovating: At the Surface: Before and After Applying and Innovating: Interpreting Epicentres of the Juan de Fuca Plate Communicating: Volcanoes at Convergent Boundaries Applying and Innovating: Volcanic Ash Analysis Evaluating: Mountain Ranges 4.3 Assessment
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Topic 4.4 How do geological features and processes affect where and how we live? Applying and Innovating: Being Prepared Applying and Innovating: Geohazards in British Columbia Applying and Innovating: The Geology of Your Region 4.4 Assessment
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Unit 4 AT Issue: Should we worry about the Cascadia subduction zone?
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Topic 4.1 What ideas, observations, and evidence led to the theory of plate tectonics? Evaluating: Considering Evidence for Continental Drift Processing and Analyzing: Layers of Earth Applying and Innovating: Sea Floor Spreading 4.1 Assessment