Alberta Program of Studies
20?A.1.1k: explain, in general terms, the one-way flow of energy through the biosphere and how stored energy in the biosphere, as a system, is eventually ?lost? as heat
20-A.1.2k.1: energy flow in photosynthetic environments
20-A.1.2k.2: energy flow in deep sea vent (chemosynthetic) ecosystems and other extreme environments
20?A.1.3k: explain the structure of ecosystem trophic levels, using models such as food chains and food webs
20?A.1.4k: explain, quantitatively, the flow of energy and the exchange of matter in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, using models such as pyramids of numbers, biomass and energy.
20?A.1.1s: formulate questions about observed relationships and plan investigations of questions, ideas, problems and issues
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
20-A.1.3s.1: analyze data on the diversity of plants, animals and decomposers of an endangered ecosystem, e.g., wetlands, short grass prairie, and predict long-term outcomes
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
20-A.1.3s.2: compare alternative ways of presenting energy flow data for ecosystems; i.e., pyramids of energy, biomass and numbers
20-A.1.4s.1: use appropriate International System of Units (SI) notation, fundamental and derived units and significant digits
Unit Conversions 2 - Scientific Notation and Significant Digits
20?A.2.1k: explain and summarize the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus and relate this to general reuse of all matter in the biosphere
Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
20-A.2.1s.2: hypothesize how alterations in the carbon cycle, resulting from the burning of fossil fuels, might affect other cycling phenomena; e.g., sulfur, iron, water
20?A.3.1k: explain the interrelationship of energy, matter and ecosystem productivity (biomass production)
Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
20?A.3.1sts: explain that science and technology are developed to meet societal needs and expand human capability
20?A.3.2s: conduct investigations into relationships between and among observable variables and use a broad range of tools and techniques to gather and record data and information
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
Triple Beam Balance
20?A.3.4s: work collaboratively in addressing problems and apply the skills and conventions of science in communicating information and ideas and in assessing results
20?B.1.1k: define species, population, community and ecosystem and explain the interrelationships among them
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
20?B.1.2k: explain how terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems support a diversity of organisms through a variety of habitats and niches
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
20?B.1.3k: identify biotic and abiotic characteristics and explain their influence in an aquatic and a terrestrial ecosystem in the local region; e.g., stream, lake, prairie, boreal forest, vacant lot, sports field
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
20?B.1.4k: explain how limiting factors influence organism distribution and range
20-B.1.1s.1: hypothesize the role of biotic and abiotic factors in ecosystems; e.g., competition and chinooks
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
20-B.1.2s.1: perform a field study to measure, quantitatively, appropriate abiotic characteristics of an ecosystem and to gather, both quantitatively and qualitatively, evidence for analysis of the diversity of life in the ecosystem studied
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
20-B.1.3s.3: evaluate the accuracy and reliability of instruments used for measurement and identify the degree of error in the field-study data
20?B.1.4s: work collaboratively in addressing problems and apply the skills and conventions of science in communicating information and ideas and in assessing results
20?B.2.1k: explain that variability in a species results from heritable mutations and that some mutations may have a selective advantage
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Microevolution
Natural Selection
20?B.2.4k: summarize and describe lines of evidence to support the evolution of modern species from ancestral forms; i.e., the fossil record, Earth?s history, biogeography, homologous and analogous structures, embryology, biochemistry
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
20-B.2.1s.1: design an investigation to measure or describe an inherited variation in a plant or an animal population
20?B.2.2s: conduct investigations into relationships between and among observable variables and use a broad range of tools and techniques to gather and record data and information
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
Triple Beam Balance
20?C.1.2k: explain, in general terms, how the products of the light-dependent reactions, NADPH and ATP, are used to reduce carbon in the light-independent reactions for the production of glucose; and describe where in the chloroplast these processes occur.
20?C.1.1s: formulate questions about observed relationships and plan investigations of questions, ideas, problems and issues
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
20?C.1.2s: conduct investigations into relationships between and among observable variables and use a broad range of tools and techniques to gather and record data and information
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
Triple Beam Balance
20?C.1.4s: work collaboratively in addressing problems and apply the skills and conventions of science in communicating information and ideas and in assessing results
20?C.2.1k: explain, in general terms, how glucose is oxidized during glycolysis and the Krebs cycle to produce reducing power in NADH and FADH; and describe where in the cell these processes occur
20?C.2.3k: distinguish, in general terms, between aerobic and anaerobic respiration and fermentation in plants, animals and yeast
20?C.2.1sts: explain that science and technology are developed to meet societal needs and expand human capability
20?C.2.1s: formulate questions about observed relationships and plan investigations of questions, ideas, problems and issues
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
20-C.2.2s.2: measure temperature change over time of germinating and non-germinating seeds
20?C.2.4s: work collaboratively in addressing problems and apply the skills and conventions of science in communicating information and ideas and in assessing results
20-D.1.1k.1: mouth, esophagus, stomach, sphincters, small and large intestines, liver, pancreas, gall bladder
20?D.1.4k: describe the chemical and physical processing of matter through the digestive system into the circulatory system
Circulatory System
Digestive System
20?D.1.1s: formulate questions about observed relationships and plan investigations of questions, ideas, problems and issues
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
20-D.1.2s.1: observe, through dissection or computer simulations, the digestive and respiratory systems of a representative mammal and identify the major structural components
20?D.2.1k: identify the principal structures of the heart and associated blood vessels; i.e., atria, ventricles, septa, valves, aorta, venae cavae, pulmonary arteries and veins, sinoatrial node, atrioventricular node, Purkinje fibres
20?D.2.2k: describe the action of the heart, blood pressure and the general circulation of blood through coronary, pulmonary and systemic pathways
20?D.2.1s: formulate questions about observed relationships and plan investigations of questions, ideas, problems and issues
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
20-D.2.2s.3: select and integrate information from various sources to observe the principal features of a mammalian circulatory system and the direction of blood flow, and identify structures from drawings; e.g., valves, chambers
20?D.2.4s: work collaboratively in addressing problems and apply the skills and conventions of science in communicating information and ideas and in assessing results
20?D.3.1s: formulate questions about observed relationships and plan investigations of questions, ideas, problems and issues
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
20?D.3.4s: work collaboratively in addressing problems and apply the skills and conventions of science in communicating information and ideas and in assessing results
20?D.4.1s: formulate questions about observed relationships and plan investigations of questions, ideas, problems and issues
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
20-D.4.4s.1: use appropriate SI notation and fundamental and derived units
Unit Conversions 2 - Scientific Notation and Significant Digits
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020