Grade 9 Science (SNC1W)

The Ontario Grade 9 Science course SNC1W has five strands: STEM Skills, Careers, and Connections; Biology; Chemistry; Physics; and Earth and Space Science. The museum maps four of them; Physics has no honest link.

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Strand A: STEM Skills, Careers, and Connections

Scientific processes, careers and contributions to science by people from various communities (expectations A1, A2).

  1. Contributions to science People from different communities have added to science; this lesson meets two scholars of the Islamic world and asks what their contributions were (A2.5). Invention × 2

Strand B: Biology

Climate change, and the dynamic and interconnected nature of ecosystems (expectations B1, B2).

  1. Soil, water and what grows Soil and water as factors in what a place can sustain; the lesson reads one historical way of judging land and water for a garden (B2.4). Invention

Strand C: Chemistry

Elements, compounds and their uses, and the nature of matter (expectations C1, C2).

  1. What glass is made from Glass as a consumer product: the materials in its recipes, and how the supply of one of them and the recipes changed (C1.1). Object × 3

Strand E: Earth and Space Science

Space exploration, and the solar system, the universe and the phenomena seen from Earth (expectations E1, E2).

  1. Fixed stars and wandering lights Two kinds of heavenly bodies, the fixed stars and the sun, moon and planets, described and compared by how they move (E2.4). Scholar × 2
  2. Measuring the sky in Earth radii How the size of the Earth became the unit for the distances of the Moon, the Sun, the planets and the stars (E2.5). InventionScholar
  3. Why the Sun and Moon go dark Eclipses as a phenomenon seen from Earth: how one astronomer explained their causes, and how one eclipse was seen (E2.6). ScholarStory

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