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• Explain how reaction energy profiles show activation energy, transition states, and overall energy changes.
• Describe how catalysts alter reaction pathways by lowering activation energy while leaving the overall energy difference unchanged.
• Apply collision theory and energy-profile ideas to predict how changing conditions affects reaction rate.

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• Understand how the periodic table's structure relates to element properties.
• Identify patterns in atomic size, ionization energy, and electronegativity across periods and groups.
• Explain how electron arrangements influence chemical reactivity and ion formation.+ Show more

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• Understand how orbital motion patterns support gravitational laws and Kepler's laws.
• Analyze evidence from planetary systems to recognize common orbital trends.
• Explain how gravity provides centripetal acceleration for bodies in orbit.+ Show more

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• Understand how to interpret data from environmental and health statistics using statistical concepts.
• Apply confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and error analysis to real-world environmental data.
• Evaluate models and measurement limitations to make transparent, justified decisions based on data.

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• Understand how biological, chemical, and physical processes interact in environmental phenomena.
• Apply cross-disciplinary reasoning to explain complex regional environmental patterns.
• Analyze case studies involving nutrient cycles, chemical speciation, and physical transport in landscapes.+ Show more

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• Understand the key techniques used in recombinant DNA methods such as cloning, restriction mapping, and genome editing.
• Identify the roles of vectors, restriction enzymes, and ligases in genetic engineering.
• Explore applications of recombinant DNA technology in agriculture and diagnostics.+ Show more

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• Understand the types of DNA mutations and their molecular mechanisms.
• Identify the effects of different mutations on gene products and organism traits.
• Analyze how mutations influence crop, livestock, and pathogen characteristics.+ Show more

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• Explain how mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow influence allele frequencies over time.
• Describe the role of environmental pressures in shaping phenotypic variation and adaptation.
• Identify examples of evolutionary forces in Alberta's ecosystems and agriculture.+ Show more

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• Understand the key processes that drive ecosystem productivity, including primary productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling.
• Identify biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus and their roles in linking organisms to soils, atmosphere, and water bodies.
• Explore Alberta-specific examples such as peatland carbon sequestration, boreal fire effects on nutrient release, and agricultural soil management impacts.+ Show more

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• Understand different types of community interactions such as competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
• Explain how energy flow and trophic relationships shape ecosystems.
• Analyze examples of community interactions in Alberta ecosystems and their effects on biodiversity and stability.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of laminar and turbulent flow in natural and engineered systems.
• Apply the continuity and Bernoulli equations to analyze fluid behavior in rivers and atmospheric patterns.
• Relate scaling arguments and dimensional analysis to real-world fluid flow processes and flood risk assessment.

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• Understand the concepts of population dynamics, trophic relationships, and nutrient cycling within ecosystems.
• Analyze how habitat alteration, invasive species, and climate variability impact community structure and ecosystem services.
• Apply quantitative descriptors such as carrying capacity, growth rates, and energy transfer efficiencies to ecological patterns.+ Show more

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• Understand the processes of dissolution, sorption, volatilization, and biodegradation in soil and water systems.
• Analyze case studies involving contaminant pathways from agricultural runoff and petrochemical spills.
• Explain how kinetic and equilibrium considerations influence contaminant distribution and remediation strategies.+ Show more

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• Understand the mole concept and how it relates to chemical quantities.
• Learn to calculate molar mass and convert between mass and moles.
• Apply stoichiometric relationships to balanced chemical equations for material predictions.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of VSEPR theory and hybridization in predicting molecular shapes.
• Identify how molecular geometry influences physical and chemical properties of molecules.
• Analyze molecular structures to determine bond angles, polarity, and steric effects.+ Show more

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• Describe the evolution of atomic models from Dalton to quantum mechanical theories.
• Explain how subatomic particles influence atomic mass and behavior.
• Identify real-world applications of atomic models, such as isotope use in geological dating and resource extraction.+ Show more

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• Describe the structure and organization of lipid bilayers and membrane proteins.
• Explain the mechanisms of passive and active transport across membranes.
• Analyze how electrochemical potentials influence membrane transport and cellular signaling.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of electron filling order and orbital diagrams.
• Apply Hund’s rule and identify exceptions in transition elements.
• Connect quantum numbers to orbital occupancy and periodic trends.+ Show more

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• Identify the major components of Earth's systems and their fluxes.
• Explain how energy and mass balance link different Earth subsystems.
• Describe models of steady-state and transient responses in Earth systems.+ Show more

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• Understand the key processes of weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition and their roles in shaping landscapes.
• Analyze how climate, vegetation, and tectonic setting influence surface change rates.
• Interpret process-response diagrams, sediment budgets, and channel profile models in the context of landscape evolution.+ Show more

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• Interpret stratigraphic sequences, fossil assemblages, and radiometric age data to reconstruct Earth's history.
• Analyze sedimentary facies, cross-sections, and isotopic systematics for correlating depositional environments.
• Evaluate the limitations of temporal resolution, unconformities, and integrating multiple evidence types in geologic chronologies.+ Show more

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• Use real-time checks for understanding while reading to resolve confusion.
• Identify and track major ideas as they unfold, using rereading and context clues.
• Write quick internal summaries that connect new information to earlier sections.+ Show more

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• Identify how background knowledge and purpose help guide comprehension before reading.
• Form predictions using titles, opening paragraphs, and recurring terms.
• Recognize genre conventions and structural signals to refine reading expectations.+ Show more

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• Analyze how an author’s tone, imagery, figurative language, and sentence patterns affect a reader’s understanding.
• Identify craft choices in informational and literary texts and explain how they create specific effects.
• Connect rhetorical moves (such as definitions, repetition, and shifts in focus) to the meaning they produce.+ Show more

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• Clarify a claim using oral evidence such as examples, observations, facts, and explanations.
• Use oral language markers (for example, this shows, because) to connect evidence to ideas.
• Evaluate whether evidence is relevant and integrated into an explanation.

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• Identify how temporal signals and transitions help a narrative stay in order
• Explain cause-and-effect relationships between events in a story
• Revise a short narrative to improve pacing and clarity using event sequencing

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• Explain how active listening improves purposeful discussion by using details from a speaker’s message.
• Practice responding with clarifying questions and accurate paraphrases that confirm understanding.
• Identify implied assumptions in comments and respond in ways that extend the conversation respectfully.

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• Explain how synthesis combines related ideas and evidence from within a single text.
• Use relationships such as cause and effect, problem and solution, or comparison of viewpoints to synthesize information.
• Write a synthesized response that blends key points without repeating sections of the source text.

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• Explain how cultural diffusion spreads ideas, practices, and technologies through migration, trade, or conquest
• Analyze how geographic features such as mountains, deserts, and coasts can hinder or facilitate cultural exchange
• Use evidence from a text to describe how interregional connections increase cultural diversity and innovation

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• Explain how communities balance continuity and change to build social resilience
• Describe examples of cultural continuity and adaptation in Canada using evidence
• Make an ethical judgment about how communities should negotiate change while respecting tradition

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• Write scientific claims that cite specific evidence from observations and data.
• Explain how evidence supports a claim using appropriate relationships and units.
• Evaluate alternative explanations by deciding which evidence is stronger.

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• Describe different types of phase changes and how energy transfer affects them.
• Identify the effects of temperature and pressure on phase transitions.
• Explain the concepts of latent heat and particle arrangement during phase changes.+ Show more

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• Understand how potential and kinetic energy relate to forces and motion in mechanical systems.
• Identify factors such as elevation, mass, and speed that influence energy transfer and conservation.
• Analyze real-world examples of energy conversion, such as sled descents and conveyor systems.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of equilibrium and static balance in structures.
• Identify how forces act in pairs to produce balanced configurations.
• Differentiate between static and dynamic equilibrium through graphical and qualitative representations.+ Show more

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• Understand the factors that influence seasonal and annual animal migration.
• Identify examples of migration routes and behaviors in Alberta.
• Explain how migration connects ecosystems across regions and supports biodiversity.+ Show more

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• Understand the structure and function of food webs in ecosystems.
• Identify primary producers, consumers, and decomposers in regional examples.
• Explain the flow of energy through trophic levels.+ Show more

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• Understand the systematic approaches used in ecological inquiry.
• Identify key components such as hypothesis framing and variable selection.
• Recognize the importance of evidence and data interpretation in ecology.+ Show more

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• Understand different types of adaptive traits in plants and animals.
• Identify how environmental pressures influence trait development.
• Analyze examples of adaptation such as drought resistance and seasonal coat changes.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of relative dating such as superposition, original horizontality, and cross-cutting relationships.
• Identify key stratigraphic markers like fossils, unconformities, and intrusive contacts used to correlate layers.
• Explain how field observations and stratigraphic data help construct Earth's geological history.+ Show more

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• Understand the different types of weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition processes shaping Earth's surface.
• Identify agent-specific signatures and landform examples associated with surface processes.
• Connect rates of landscape change with geologic timescales and agent activity.+ Show more

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• Understand how human activities such as deforestation, urban expansion, and pollution impact the environment.
• Learn how scientific tools like water-quality indicators, remote sensing, and ecological indicators are used to monitor environmental changes.
• Explore mitigation strategies including policy measures, landscape restoration, and source reduction to reduce human impacts.+ Show more

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• Describe the functions of circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems in multicellular animals.
• Explain how organ systems cooperate to support gas exchange, nutrient distribution, and homeostasis.
• Identify system-level dependencies and feedback mechanisms in animal and plant transport systems.+ Show more

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• Identify the main organelles in plant and animal cells and explain their functions.
• Connect cell structure to its role in processes such as transport, synthesis, and compartmentalization.
• Compare eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells using examples like leaf mesophyll and muscle cells.+ Show more

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• Understand how microscopy reveals cellular structures in plant and animal tissues.
• Identify differences between unicellular and multicellular organisms based on microscopic evidence.
• Compare cellular features such as cell boundaries, plasma membranes, and cell walls in different organisms.+ Show more

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• Understand different types of species interactions such as predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
• Analyze how species interactions affect community structure and ecosystem stability.
• Identify examples of species interactions in terrestrial and aquatic systems using food web context.+ Show more

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• Understand how various representations convey matter interactions, including symbolic equations, graphs, and tables.
• Interpret reaction rate graphs, stoichiometric ratios, and phase diagrams to analyze matter behavior.
• Select appropriate representations for quantitative comparison and communicate relationships among measurable variables.+ Show more

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• Explain how heritable variation and environmental pressures influence natural selection.
• Identify examples of adaptation and how selection pressures affect populations.
• Describe sources of genetic variation and their role in evolution.+ Show more

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• Explain the purpose and steps of judicial review in examining constitutionality of laws and government actions.
• Analyze how courts interpret the Constitution using doctrines and interpretive approaches.
• Evaluate examples of judicial activism and judicial restraint and their impacts on policy and individual rights.