Saskatchewan Curriculum
SCI10-CD1.a: Pose questions or problems relating to the effects of human actions on global climate change and the sustainability of ecosystems that arise from personal research.
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
SCI10-CD1.h: Provide examples of human actions that have contributed to the anthropogenic greenhouse effect.
Carbon Cycle
Greenhouse Effect - Metric
SCI10-CD2.e: Explain how greenhouse gases (e.g., water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone), particles, clouds and surface albedo affect the amount of solar energy absorbed and re-radiated at various locations on Earth.
SCI10-CD2.j: Analyze weather and atmospheric data to identify patterns in temperature and atmospheric pressure, and changes in those patterns locally, regionally and globally.
SCI10-CD3.a: Discuss the importance of biodiversity and maintaining biodiversity.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
SCI10-CD3.b: Understand that scientists describe biomes as resulting from the interaction of biotic and abiotic factors such as temperature, precipitation, insolation, latitude, altitude and geography.
SCI10-CD3.e: Determine the population density, percentage frequency and/or percentage cover of one or more organisms in an ecosystem using primary or secondary population data.
SCI10-CD3.h: Construct and/or interpret graphs of population dynamics of humans and other species to determine population trends within an ecosystem.
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
SCI10-CD3.i: Investigate various ways in which natural populations attempt to maintain equilibrium, and relate this equilibrium to the resource limits of an ecosystem with reference to concepts such as carrying capacity, natality, mortality, immigration and emigration.
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
SCI10-CD3.k: Examine how factors such as invasive species, habitat loss and climate change affect biodiversity within an ecosystem, and can result in species becoming at-risk (i.e., vulnerable, threatened and extirpated).
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
SCI10-CD3.l: Analyze how the bioaccumulation and biomagnification of human-made substances can affect the viability and biodiversity of organisms and populations in an ecosystem.
SCI10-CD4.a: Explain systems in terms of their type (e.g., open, closed and isolated), equilibrium (e.g., dynamic, static, stable and unstable) and their associated feedbacks (e.g., positive and negative).
Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
SCI10-CD4.d: Describe how human actions can affect the cycling of matter and flow of energy through ecosystems.
SCI10-CD4.e: Examine the role of photosynthesis, respiration and sinks in the cycling of carbon through the environment.
Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
SCI10-CD4.f: Design and carry out an investigation to determine the effect of carbon dioxide levels on photosynthesis and/or to determine the effect of nitrogenous-based fertilizer on plant or algal growth.
SCI10-CR1.c: Observe and describe a variety of chemical reactions, including synthesis, decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement.
Equilibrium and Concentration
Titration
SCI10-CR1.g: Investigate the properties of endothermic and exothermic chemical reactions, including identifying where or how energy is absorbed or released in the reaction and identifying potential benefits and consequences of the reaction.
SCI10-CR2.a: Examine the relationship between an element's position on the periodic table, the number of its valence electrons and its chemical properties.
SCI10-CR2.b: Discuss the importance of valence electrons, and whether they are shared or transferred, in determining bond type in chemical compounds.
Covalent Bonds
Electron Configuration
Ionic Bonds
SCI10-CR2.c: Name and write formulas for common ionic compounds, including compounds involving polyatomic ions, using the periodic table and a list of common ions.
SCI10-CR2.g: Name and write formulas for common molecular and organic compounds (e.g., methane, propane, butane, octane, methanol, ethanol and glucose), using the periodic table and a list of numerical Greek prefixes.
SCI10-CR2.j: Investigate how certain substances, including those traditional to First Nations and Métis cultures, can serve as acid-base indicators.
Chemical Changes
Identifying Nutrients
Mystery Powder Analysis
Titration
pH Analysis
pH Analysis: Quad Color Indicator
SCI10-CR2.k: Describe how the pH scale is used to classify substances as acidic, basic or neutral.
pH Analysis
pH Analysis: Quad Color Indicator
SCI10-CR3.b: Explain the importance of the concept of conservation of mass in understanding, interpreting and predicting results of chemical reactions.
SCI10-CR3.c: Represent chemical reactions, organic compounds and conservation of mass using models and word equations.
Chemical Equations
Equilibrium and Concentration
SCI10-CR3.d: Represent chemical reactions and conservation of mass using skeleton equations and balanced equations.
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equations
SCI10-CR3.e: Translate word equations to balanced chemical equations and balanced chemical equations to word equations.
SCI10-CR3.g: Categorize chemical reactions as synthesis, decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement, including acid base neutralization.
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equations
Dehydration Synthesis
Equilibrium and Concentration
Titration
SCI10-CR3.h: Verify whether a chemical equation is correctly balanced, and correct any errors.
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equations
SCI10-CR3.i: Discuss the value of representing chemical reactions using models, word and skeleton equations and balanced chemical equations.
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Changes
Chemical Equations
Equilibrium and Concentration
SCI10-CR4.a: Provide examples of chemical reactions that occur over a range of time scales.
SCI10-CR4.b: Predict how factors such as temperature of the reactant(s), concentration of the reactant(s), surface area of the reactant(s) and the presence or absence of catalysts or inhibitors might affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
SCI10-CR4.c: Formulate scientific questions about the rates of chemical reactions and the factors that affect rates of chemical reactions.
SCI10-CR4.d: Design and perform an experiment to determine how various factors affect chemical reaction rates, including identifying and controlling major variables.
SCI10-CR4.g: Reflect upon data collection and analysis procedures, and suggest improvements to increase precision and accuracy.
Temperature and Sex Determination - Metric
SCI10-CR4.h: Use the collision model to explain differences in chemical reaction rates.
SCI10-CR4.i: Value the processes for drawing conclusions in science.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
SCI10-FM1.a: Create a representation of different types of motion and motion-related technologies from various cultures, including First Nations and Métis.
SCI10-FM1.b: Describe how motion that may appear imperceptible to humans (e.g., continental drift, subatomic particles, light, blood circulating and galaxies) can be measured using appropriate technologies.
Distance-Time Graphs - Metric
Free-Fall Laboratory
SCI10-FM1.e: Evaluate the design and function of a motion-related technology using student-identified criteria such as safety, cost, availability and impact on everyday life and the environment.
SCI10-FM2.f: Construct and analyze graphs (i.e., distance-time, position-time, speed-time and velocity-time) using student-collected data obtained from objects undergoing uniform motion or through computer simulations.
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs - Metric
SCI10-FM2.h: Derive the relationship between speed, distance and time (i.e., v = (delta d)/(delta t)) and between velocity, displacement and time (i.e., vector v = (delta d)/(delta t)) using student-collected data from objects undergoing uniform motion.
Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
SCI10-FM3.c: Apply the concept of 'rate of change' to operationally define speed, velocity and acceleration.
Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
SCI10-FM3.e: Differentiate between the concepts of instantaneous and average as they relate to speed and velocity.
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs - Metric
SCI10-FM3.f: Construct and analyze graphs (i.e., distance-time, position-time, speed-time and velocity-time) that represent the motion of objects that undergo acceleration.
Atwood Machine
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs - Metric
Free-Fall Laboratory
SCI10-FM3.g: Solve problems related to acceleration using the equations of motion (e.g., vector a = (delta vector v)/(delta t)’, delta vector d = (vector v sub 1)(t) + 1/2(vector a)(delta t²)).
Atwood Machine
Free-Fall Laboratory
SCI10-FM4.b: Investigate the effects of applying constant forces to objects at rest and to objects moving at a constant velocity in a straight line.
SCI10-FM4.d: Demonstrate the role of friction in changing the position and/or motion of an object.
Free-Fall Laboratory
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
SCI10-FM4.f: Analyze student-collected data to verify the relationship between the acceleration of an object and the net force acting on it.
Correlation last revised: 3/30/2021