Ontario Curriculum
A1.1: formulate relevant scientific questions about observed relationships, ideas, problems, or issues, make informed predictions, and/or formulate educated hypotheses to focus inquiries or research
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
A1.5: conduct inquiries, controlling relevant variables, adapting or extending procedures as required, and using appropriate materials and equipment safely, accurately, and effectively, to collect observations and data
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Triple Beam Balance
A1.6: compile accurate data from laboratory and other sources, and organize and record the data, using appropriate formats, including tables, flow charts, graphs, and/or diagrams
A1.8: synthesize, analyse, interpret, and evaluate qualitative and/or quantitative data to determine whether the evidence supports or refutes the initial prediction or hypothesis and whether it is consistent with scientific theory; identify sources of bias and/or error; and suggest improvements to the inquiry to reduce the likelihood of error
A1.10: draw conclusions based on inquiry results and research findings, and justify their conclusions with reference to scientific knowledge
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Diffusion
A1.13: express the results of any calculations involving data accurately and precisely, to the appropriate number of decimal places or significant figures
Unit Conversions 2 - Scientific Notation and Significant Digits
B1.1: analyse some of the risks and benefits of human intervention (e.g., tree plantations; monoculture of livestock or agricultural crops; overharvesting of wild plants for medicinal purposes; using pesticides to control pests; suppression of wild fires) to the biodiversity of aquatic or terrestrial ecosystems
B1.2: analyse the impact that climate change might have on the diversity of living things (e.g., rising temperatures can result in habitat loss or expansion; changing rainfall levels can cause drought or flooding of habitats)
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
B2.1: use appropriate terminology related to biodiversity, including, but not limited to: genetic diversity, species diversity, structural diversity, protists, bacteria, fungi, binomial nomenclature, and morphology
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
B2.4: create and apply a dichotomous key to identify and classify organisms from each of the kingdoms
B3.2: compare and contrast the structure and function of different types of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and viruses (e.g., compare and contrast genetic material, metabolism, organelles, and other cell parts)
Paramecium Homeostasis
RNA and Protein Synthesis
Virus Lytic Cycle
B3.5: explain why biodiversity is important to maintaining viable ecosystems (e.g., biodiversity helps increase resilience to stress and resistance to diseases or invading species)
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
C1.1: analyse, on the basis of research, the economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages of an artificial selection technology (e.g., livestock and horticultural breeding)
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
C1.2: evaluate the possible impact of an environmental change on natural selection and on the vulnerability of species (e.g., adaptation to environmental changes can affect reproductive success of an organism)
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
C2.1: use appropriate terminology related to evolution, including, but not limited to: extinction, natural selection, phylogeny, speciation, niche, mutation, mimicry, adaptation, and survival of the fittest
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Microevolution
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
Evolution
C2.4: investigate, through a case study or computer simulation, the processes of natural selection and artificial selection (e.g., selective breeding, antibiotic resistance in microorganisms), and analyse the different mechanisms by which they occur
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Microevolution
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
Evolution
C3.1: explain the fundamental theory of evolution, using the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection to illustrate the process of biological change over time
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
Evolution
C3.2: explain the process of adaptation of individual organisms to their environment (e.g., some disease-causing bacteria in a bacterial population can survive exposure to antibiotics due to slight genetic variations from the rest of the population, which allows successful surviving bacteria to pass on antibiotic resistance to the next generation)
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
C3.4: describe some evolutionary mechanisms (e.g., natural selection, artificial selection, sexual selection, genetic variation, genetic drift, biotechnology), and explain how they affect the evolutionary development and extinction of various species (e.g., Darwin’s finches, giraffes, pandas)
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Microevolution
Evolution
D2.1: use appropriate terminology related to genetic processes, including, but not limited to: haploid, diploid, spindle, synapsis, gamete, zygote, heterozygous, homozygous, allele, plasmid, trisomy, non-disjunction, and somatic cell
Chicken Genetics
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Human Karyotyping
D2.3: use the Punnett square method to solve basic genetics problems involving monohybrid crosses, incomplete dominance, codominance, dihybrid crosses, and sex-linked genes
Chicken Genetics
Fast Plants® 2 - Mystery Parent
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
D2.4: investigate, through laboratory inquiry or computer simulation, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, and use the Punnett square method and probability rules to analyse the qualitative and quantitative data and determine the parent genotype
Chicken Genetics
Fast Plants® 2 - Mystery Parent
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Microevolution
D3.1: explain the phases in the process of meiosis in terms of cell division, the movement of chromosomes, and crossing over of genetic material
D3.2: explain the concepts of DNA, genes, chromosomes, alleles, mitosis, and meiosis, and how they account for the transmission of hereditary characteristics according to Mendelian laws of inheritance
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Microevolution
Meowsis
D3.3: explain the concepts of genotype, phenotype, dominance, incomplete dominance, codominance, recessiveness, and sex linkage according to Mendelian laws of inheritance
Chicken Genetics
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Microevolution
D3.4: describe some genetic disorders caused by chromosomal abnormalities (e.g., non-disjunction of chromosomes during meiosis) or other genetic mutations in terms of chromosomes affected, physical effects, and treatments
E3.2: explain the anatomy of the digestive system and the importance of digestion in providing nutrients needed for energy and growth (e.g., the body’s mechanical and chemical processes digest food, which provides the proteins needed to build muscle, and the fibre, water, vitamins, and minerals needed to regulate body processes)
E3.3: explain the anatomy of the circulatory system (e.g., blood components, blood vessels, the heart) and its function in transporting substances that are vital to health
F2.4: investigate various techniques of plant propagation (e.g., leaf cutting, stem cutting, root cutting, seed germination)
F3.3: explain the reproductive mechanisms of plants in natural reproduction and artificial propagation (e.g., germination of seeds, leaf cuttings, grafting of branches onto a host tree)
F3.4: describe the various factors that affect plant growth (e.g., growth regulators, sunlight, water, nutrients, acidity, tropism)
Fast Plants® 1 - Growth and Genetics
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020