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Units
- Strand A: Scientific Investigation Skills and Career ExplorationInvestigation skills and career exploration (expectations A1 and A2). The museum maps one lesson: careers in medicine and the contributions of two physicians (A2).
- Strand B: Medical TechnologiesMedical technologies and therapies (expectations B1 to B3). The museum maps two lessons: surgical instruments and techniques described by al-Zahrawi, and two therapies the jurists' encyclopaedia records, cupping and honey.
- Strand C: Pathogens and DiseasePathogens and the control of disease (expectations C1 to C3). The museum maps two lessons: how Ibn Sina set conditions for judging a drug's effect, and what the museum's records say about contagion and about entering or leaving a plague land.
- Strand D: Nutritional ScienceNutrition, food and digestion (expectations D1 to D3). The museum maps one lesson: how illness and the grades of eating shape what a person eats, as the jurists' encyclopaedia records them.
- Strand E: Science and Public Health IssuesPublic health, past and present (expectations E1 to E3). The museum maps two lessons: three epidemics recorded in the histories, and the measures its records describe for protecting the public from plague.
- Strand F: BiotechnologyBiotechnology and its issues (expectations F1 to F3). The museum maps one lesson: a fatwa on the use of plant-cloning techniques in food production, as an ethical and legal question (F1.2).
Brief
Grade 12 Science, course code SNC4M, in the Ontario curriculum. It has six strands; the museum links all six, with 9 lessons built from its own records. 1
Sources
- Ontario Ministry of Education, The Ontario Curriculum: Science
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islam.museum contributors. “Grade 12 Science (SNC4M)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/course/ca-on-g12-snc4m/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-12.
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