Area of Learning: SCIENCE Geology Grade 12 — BIG IDEAS Minerals, rocks, and earth geological and The plate tectonic theory The form, Weathering and erosion Earth’s materials form in response biological history is explains the changes that arrangement, and processes continually reshape to conditions within and on interpreted and inferred occur within Earth and to structure of rocks landscapes through the and are from information stored crust throughout are affected by interaction of the geosphere the Earth’s surface Earth’s the foundation of many in rock strata and geological time. three-dimensional with the hydrosphere resource-based industries. fossil evidence. forces over time. and atmosphere. Learning Standards Curricular Competencies Content Students are expected to be able to do the following: Students are expected to know the following: Questioning and predicting classification of minerals Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic processes of rock formation: or problem of personal, local, or global interest igneous Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including sedimentary increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world metamorphic Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes B.C. and others: resource deposits origin and formation Planning and conducting economic, environmental, and First Peoples Collaboratively and individually plan, select, and use appropriate investigation considerations methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data the geologic time scale and major events in history (qualitative and quantitative) Earth’s the local and global fossil record: Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods evidence of evolution Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital methods of fossil formation technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data First Peoples perspectives Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures methods for relative and absolute dating of rocks, fossils, and data: and geologic events significant figures reconstruction of past through correlation of fossil Earth’s uncertainty data and rock strata scientific notation
Area of Learning: SCIENCE — Geology Grade 12 BIG IDEAS Minerals, rocks, and earth materials form in response to conditions within and on the Earth’s surface and are the foundation of many resource-based industries. Earth’s geological and biological history is interpreted and inferred from information stored in rock strata and fossil evidence. The plate tectonic theory explains the changes that occur within Earth and to Earth’s crust throughout geological time. The form, arrangement, and structure of rocks are affected by three-dimensional forces over time. Weathering and erosion processes continually reshape landscapes through the interaction of the geosphere with the hydrosphere and atmosphere. Learning Standards Curricular Competencies Content 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, local, or global interest Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes 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) Assess risks and address ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues associated with their proposed methods Use appropriate SI units and appropriate equipment, including digital technologies, to systematically and accurately collect and record data Apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to experimental procedures and data: significant figures uncertainty scientific notation Students are expected to know the following: classification of minerals processes of rock formation: igneous sedimentary metamorphic B.C. resource deposits and others: origin and formation economic, environmental, and First Peoples considerations the geologic time scale and major events in Earth’s history the local and global fossil record: evidence of evolution methods of fossil formation First Peoples perspectives methods for relative and absolute dating of rocks, fossils, and geologic events reconstruction of Earth’s past through correlation of fossil data and rock strata
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