September 2008
Classroom Policies of Behavior and Expectations
Rules of Engagement 
Course Content
- Analyzing Scientific Data
- Data is collected and organized in a scientific fashion.
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
- Chemical Reactions with Applications
- A chemical reaction is the interaction of chemicals to produce new substances.
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
- demonstrate an understanding of chemical reactions and the symbolic
systems used to describe them;
the landuage of chemistry;
- physical and chemical changes
investigate chemical reactions encountered in everyday life and their practical applications;
- rate of chemical reactions;
- demonstrate an understanding of how chemical reactions relate to
technological products and processes commonly encountered in everyday
life.
- Electricity and You
- What is electrical energy.
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
Ecosystems
The interaction of living things with their environment is the study called
ecology.
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
- demonstrate an understanding of ecosystems, including the relationship
between ecological balance and the sustainability of life;
- analyse natural and human threats to a local ecosystem and propose viable
solutions to restore ecological balance;
- relate issues to environmental sustainability with a particular focus on issues
in Ontario and Canada.
- Science and the Media
- A look at modern day scientific issues and how the media deals with them.
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will: