Grade 9 Worksheets

Learning Objectives

• Analyze health messages in media by identifying persuasive techniques and possible bias.
• Evaluate credibility by checking evidence, sources, and whether claims are specific and testable.
• Recognize misinformation patterns and choose safer health information from credible references.

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• Explain how public policies and regulations can affect individual and community health outcomes.
• Analyze how laws related to tobacco, alcohol, vaccination, and environmental safety shape health behaviors.
• Evaluate the intended and unintended impacts of health-related government actions.

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• Explain what input is and how it relates to processing and output.
• Identify common input devices and match them to the information they collect.
• Describe how data becomes input for a computer system.

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• Explain how conditional statements use comparisons to make decisions in a program.
• Use branching logic with if/else to choose between actions based on true or false conditions.
• Recognize and describe the purpose of nested decision structures in more complex problems.

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• Identify key determinants of health, including genetics, environment, socioeconomic status, and personal behavior
• Explain how determinants can act individually and together to influence health outcomes and disparities
• Use determinants of health to assess health risks and suggest equitable health strategies

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• Explain how loops support iteration by repeating instructions with a stopping condition
• Compare efficiency and readability between loop-based solutions and duplicate-code approaches
• Identify common loop use cases such as counting, pattern generation, and checking conditions

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• Identify health-enhancing behaviors that support physical and mental well-being.
• Explain how nutrition, physical activity, and avoiding harmful substances reduce disease risk.
• Apply health-behavior knowledge to real-life situations and daily decisions.

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• Explain how functions help organize reusable code and reduce repetition
• Describe the roles of parameters and return values in modular programming
• Use function ideas to reason about program flow, debugging, and readability

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• Explain how personal, social, and environmental factors can affect overall health.
• Analyze scenarios to identify how one health choice can influence another aspect of well-being.
• Use health interrelationship concepts to make informed wellness decisions.

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• Differentiate syntax errors from logic errors and explain why each affects program behavior differently.
• Use debugging steps like tracing, testing hypotheses, and checking results to find and fix errors.
• Apply vocabulary such as debug, syntax, logic, and troubleshoot to describe debugging in a clear, accurate way.

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• Explain how health determinants interact within a system rather than acting independently.
• Identify how behaviors, social influences, and health policies can create feedback loops in health outcomes.
• Use systems thinking to suggest realistic intervention leverage points.

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• Explain how health systems organize and deliver health services.
• Describe how insurance and community resources affect access to care.
• Evaluate how system effectiveness can support wellness and manage health conditions.

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• Explain how addictive behaviours can involve more than substances, including gambling and excessive screen time.
• Identify common early signs and personal triggers of addictive behaviours in everyday life.
• Describe strategies for reducing harm, setting boundaries, and getting support.

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• Explain that sexual consent must be enthusiastic, informed, and ongoing
• Identify respectful ways to communicate boundaries and seek mutual agreement
• Describe strategies that reduce the risk of coercion and support personal agency

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• Explain how environmental factors such as pollution and climate can affect respiratory and overall health
• Describe how green spaces and community infrastructure can improve physical activity and mental well-being
• Evaluate ways individuals and communities can advocate for healthier, safer environments

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• Identify how personal preferences, social interactions, cultural norms, and environmental conditions can influence health behaviours.
• Analyze how family, peers, community standards, and access to resources may support or challenge healthy decisions.
• Use health factors to explain healthier choices and resilience against health risks.

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• Interpret key parts of nutrition labels to make healthier food choices.
• Identify whole foods and explain how they support balanced nutrition.
• Evaluate food options using ingredients, preparation methods, and portion sizes.

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• Explain how nutrient needs change across developmental stages and activity levels.
• Identify the roles of macro- and micronutrients in growth, immune function, and overall health.
• Evaluate food choices by considering nutrient content and appropriate portion sizes.

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• Explain why consent must be clear, freely given, and reversible.
• Identify strategies for safer sexual health, including communication and contraception knowledge.
• Describe how mutual respect helps prevent harm, unintended pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections.

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• Describe short-term and long-term risks of substance use and how they affect safety decisions.
• Explain how prevention and peer support can reduce harm related to substance use.
• Identify refusal skills and harm-reduction strategies that lower the chance of serious harm.

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• Explain how honesty, confidentiality, and empathy build trust in relationships.
• Demonstrate active listening and respectful communication that supports emotional safety.
• Describe how reliability and boundary-respecting choices strengthen personal, social, and community trust.

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• Identify common emotion triggers and describe how they affect reactions.
• Compare coping strategies and explain why some strategies are more helpful than others.
• Develop a simple personal coping plan using relaxation, journaling, and social support.

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• Identify common indicators of mental well-being and mental health concerns in mood, energy, and social behavior.
• Explain how stress, lifestyle habits, and social environments can affect mental health.
• Describe strategies that support mental wellness and resilience.

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• Identify signs that someone may need support and choose appropriate help-seeking actions.
• Describe how confidentiality and privacy can affect help-seeking conversations.
• Recognize community resources such as helplines, counselling services, and peer support groups.

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• Define a clear, realistic health goal and identify steps to reach it.
• Apply strategies for monitoring progress and adjusting plans when results differ.
• Use reflection to improve future goal-setting and health choices.

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• Identify common personal stressors and explain how stress affects the body and mind.
• Practice coping strategies such as deep breathing, time management, and physical activity.
• Evaluate healthy choices that support emotional regulation and reduce anxiety.

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• Explain how to schedule an appointment and what information to prepare.
• Describe the role of referrals in accessing specialist care.
• Identify how insurance claims work and what can cause delays.

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• Explain how health goals guide decision-making and support well-being.
• Identify features of clear, achievable goals that build self-efficacy and resilience.
• Describe how goal setting can help people form and maintain healthy habits.

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• Explain how family, friends, peer pressure, and cultural norms can influence health attitudes and behaviors.
• Identify strategies to make healthier choices when social pressure pushes toward risky behaviors.
• Evaluate whether a social influence supports well-being or increases health risks.

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• Explain how cultural norms can influence health choices and behaviors.
• Identify examples of health-promoting and health-hindering cultural practices.
• Describe how to use culturally sensitive communication in peer and health settings.

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• Compare how simple machines change input force, output force, and displacement.
• Explain the relationship between mechanical advantage and ideal mechanical advantage.
• Identify key parts and use cases of levers, pulleys, inclined planes, wedges, wheel and axle, and screws.

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation and orbital motion produce observable daily and yearly cycles.
• Distinguish solar day and sidereal day and relate them to Earth’s motion around the Sun.
• Describe how geometry and periodic gravitational effects lead to predictable changes in what we observe from Earth.

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• Calculate work using W = F d cos(θ) for constant forces at an angle to displacement.
• Explain why the work from a variable force can be found from the area under a force–distance graph.
• Choose the correct method for computing work in everyday physics situations.

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• Describe major carbon reservoirs in the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and geosphere.
• Explain how carbon moves through pathways such as photosynthesis, respiration, dissolution, and sedimentation.
• Quantify the idea of residence time and interpret how human emissions perturb natural carbon budgets.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy from the Sun and Earth’s interior is transferred through radiation, conduction, and convection.
• Describe how energy gradients drive atmospheric and oceanic circulation and influence weathering and tectonic activity.
• Connect radioactive decay to long-term heat production, mantle convection, and volcanic activity.

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation and revolution cause apparent daily and yearly motion of celestial objects.
• Use sky coordinates (altitude and azimuth) to describe where objects appear in the sky.
• Interpret observational patterns such as rising and setting, constellations, and retrograde motion.

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• Explain how Earth–Moon–Sun geometry creates lunar phases and why the Moon’s orbit makes the pattern repeat.
• Distinguish solar and lunar eclipses and classify partial, total, and annular eclipses using relative alignments.
• Describe the roles of orbital inclination and node alignment in when eclipses can occur.+ Show more

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• Explain how extraction of Earth resources can alter habitats and landforms.
• Describe how pollution and water withdrawal can move contaminants through Earth systems.
• Evaluate sustainability using renewability, cumulative impacts, and reclamation potential.

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• Represent forces as vectors with magnitude and direction in two dimensions
• Resolve a force into perpendicular components and describe what each component means
• Calculate a net/resultant force using analytical methods (components) and explain the role of direction+ Show more

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• Explain Newton’s second law using the idea that net force is proportional to mass times acceleration.
• Distinguish mass from weight and connect the difference to acceleration using net force.
• Use vector reasoning (direction of net force and acceleration) and check units in force, mass, and acceleration problems.

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• Explain how an element’s identity is determined by its number of protons.
• Use atomic symbols to identify and compare representative elements.
• Describe how atomic models represent atomic identity using symbols and atomic mass.

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• Explain gas pressure using the particle model, focusing on particle collisions with container walls.
• Describe how changes in gas volume and temperature qualitatively affect pressure.
• Connect microscopic particle motion to observable gas behaviours in everyday contexts.

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• Describe chemical properties as tendencies to undergo specific chemical changes.
• Identify evidence of chemical change, such as new substances, gas evolution, precipitate formation, and permanent colour change.
• Distinguish chemical changes from physical changes using reaction observations and product evidence.

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• Describe chemical change as a process that forms new substances with different properties and composition.
• Identify observable indicators of chemical change such as temperature change, gas production, precipitate formation, and persistent color change.
• Explain, at a microscopic level, how reactants rearrange to form products, and distinguish chemical evidence from physical changes.

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• Differentiate homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures using examples and particle-level reasoning
• Explain how physical properties such as particle size, solubility, boiling point, and density can separate mixtures
• Describe separation methods (filtration, distillation, magnetic separation, and decanting) in terms of what property they use

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• Define physical properties as observable or measurable characteristics that do not change the chemical identity of a substance.
• Classify materials using physical properties such as density, melting point, boiling point, colour, hardness, and conductivity.
• Distinguish intensive and extensive physical properties and predict how they behave in different samples.

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• Differentiate physical changes from chemical changes using evidence such as state, form, and macroscopic indicators
• Describe melting, freezing, evaporation, condensation, and dissolution as physical changes and identify whether they are reversible
• Explain how energy transfer accompanies phase changes using everyday examples

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• Explain the particle model using particle motion, spacing, and forces to describe solids, liquids, and gases.
• Relate kinetic energy to temperature and predict how temperature changes particle motion.
• Use microscopic particle behaviour to justify macroscopic observations such as diffusion and gas pressure.