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• Explain how energy is converted (not created) during cellular processes involving ATP and redox reactions
• Distinguish producers and consumers in terms of how they capture and transfer energy through ecosystems
• Describe how energy transformations support growth, maintenance, and reproduction at multiple levels of biological organization

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• Understand the concept of optimization and how criteria guide decision-making.
• Identify different measures used in optimization such as strength-to-weight ratio, cost, and energy efficiency.
• Explain how tradeoffs are weighed in optimization processes.+ Show more

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• Understand the process of comparing alternatives and selecting the best solution based on criteria and tradeoffs.
• Learn how to justify design choices by linking criteria to outcomes and managing constraints.
• Recognize the importance of iterative refinement and documenting decision-making in engineering design.+ Show more

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• Understand how to evaluate competing design options by mapping tradeoffs among criteria and constraints.
• Identify how improvements in one feature can negatively impact another feature in design choices.
• Analyze tradeoff scenarios considering safety, efficiency, and feasibility.+ Show more

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• Understand how resource decisions impact land, water, and ecosystems.
• Analyze tradeoffs involved in balancing community needs and environmental health.
• Evaluate different management strategies considering long-term sustainability.+ Show more

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• Understand how Earth's tilt affects the Sun's apparent position and daylight hours during different seasons.
• Explain the reasons for opposite seasons in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
• Describe how the distribution of solar energy varies throughout the year due to Earth's tilt and orbit.+ Show more

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• Understand different options for freshwater management and their tradeoffs.
• Evaluate constraints and environmental impacts of water system designs.
• Identify solutions like surface water storage, groundwater recharge, water recycling, and desalination.+ Show more

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• Understand how groundwater is stored and moves beneath Earth's surface.
• Identify factors affecting groundwater recharge and discharge.
• Explain the impacts of groundwater decline on surface water systems and water quality.+ Show more

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• Understand how environmental constraints can affect design choices.
• Identify potential social and environmental impacts of engineering solutions.
• Analyze the balance between technical feasibility and responsible decision-making.+ Show more

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• Understand that matter is conserved during physical and chemical changes.
• Identify evidence that supports the conservation of mass in different processes.
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes based on mass conservation.+ Show more

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• Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem from producers to consumers.
• Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in matter and energy transfer.
• Explain why energy decreases at higher trophic levels in food chains and webs.+ Show more

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• Understand how organisms function as systems with internal structures supporting specific roles.
• Identify different body parts involved in processing inputs like food, oxygen, and water.
• Explain how component structures and their functions align to support life processes.

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• Understand the role of decomposers in recycling nutrients within ecosystems.
• Identify different types of decomposers such as fungi and bacteria.
• Explain how decomposition connects living organisms to the nonliving environment.+ Show more

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• Identify common measurement tools and match them to the quantity they measure
• Explain why calibration and unit choice matter for accurate data collection
• Represent measurement observations clearly for comparison across sampling times+ Show more

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• Explain how engineering designs respond to intended function and real-world constraints.
• Describe how loads and forces distribute through structural and mechanical systems (e.g., bridges and pulleys).
• Identify how circuits transfer electrical energy and how design choices affect safety and reliability.+ Show more

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• Identify examples of Indigenous–settler cooperation, alliances, and conflict.
• Explain how different worldviews influenced historical land agreements.
• Analyze how settlement expansion increased competition for resources.+ Show more

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• Explain how carbon and nitrogen cycle processes (photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, nitrification/denitrification) connect atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.
• Apply mass-balance and steady-state reasoning to interpret reservoir exchange rates and net fluxes in environmental systems.
• Evaluate how human activities (fossil fuel combustion and fertilizer runoff) alter cycle dynamics and can cause measurable impacts such as eutrophication.

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• Explain how mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow generate changes in allele frequencies within populations.
• Use adaptive landscapes and fitness concepts to predict how selection pressures can shift population traits over time.
• Connect population-level mechanisms to evidence from fossils, comparative anatomy, and molecular homology.

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• Understand how to interpret displacement–time, velocity–time, and acceleration–time graphs.
• Learn how to determine physical quantities such as speed, acceleration, and displacement from graphs.
• Recognize the significance of slope and area under the curve in motion graphs.+ Show more

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• Analyze how Hispanic music, dance, and visual arts express identity, celebration, and history.
• Use grade-appropriate vocabulary to describe cultural symbols, traditions, and influences in artworks.
• Evaluate how contemporary artists adapt traditional forms while maintaining cultural meaning.

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• Explain how nutrient loading can lead to eutrophication and lower dissolved oxygen in aquatic ecosystems
• Describe how chemical contaminants can cause endocrine disruption and affect amphibian populations
• Connect bioaccumulation and biomagnification to contaminant levels in food chains and top predators+ Show more

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• Explain how birth rates, death rates, immigration, and emigration affect population size
• Distinguish between exponential growth and logistic growth using carrying capacity and limiting factors
• Identify density-dependent and density-independent influences on populations in terrestrial and aquatic systems+ Show more

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• Explain reaction rate in terms of collision frequency and the fraction of effective collisions
• Analyze how concentration, temperature, and physical state/surface area affect reaction rates
• Use the activation energy concept to predict whether a collision can lead to product formation+ Show more

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• Explain how thermohaline and wind-driven processes drive large-scale ocean circulation and heat transport.
• Describe how salinity, temperature, density stratification, and mixing influence nutrient supply and carbon sequestration.
• Interpret how observational time series and tracer studies reveal circulation pathways and mixing timescales.+ Show more

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• Understand the mechanisms of plate tectonics including subduction, rifting, collision, and uplift.
• Identify evidence supporting plate movements such as seafloor spreading, magnetic striping, and paleomagnetic records.
• Explain how landforms like mountains, ocean basins, and volcanic arcs are created through plate interactions.+ Show more

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• Understand sources of systematic and random errors in scientific data.
• Identify methods for estimating and analyzing errors in datasets.
• Apply error analysis techniques to real-world examples, including environmental measurements.+ Show more

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• Explain how tectonic, atmospheric, and hydrologic processes can produce different natural hazards.
• Analyze how evidence such as historical records, seismic/satellite data, and hazard maps helps estimate hazard intensity and impact.
• Evaluate cause-and-effect relationships to predict how and where hazards may affect communities and infrastructure.

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• Explain how genetic differences and environmental factors can both cause observable variation in organisms.
• Use models of alleles, mutation, and environment to predict how traits may change across individuals.
• Identify limits of genetic explanations when traits are mainly altered by environmental conditions.

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• Explain how heritable variation and environmental pressures can change trait frequencies in a population over generations
• Identify examples of natural selection (such as finch beaks, pollution coloration, or antibiotic resistance) and connect them to differential survival and reproduction
• Use key vocabulary (variation, heritable traits, selection, reproductive success, trait frequency) to describe how selection works

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• Explain historical significance through causes, consequences, and lasting effects.
• Identify the major political outcomes of Canadian Confederation.
• Explain the causes and consequences of the Red River Resistance.+ Show more

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• Identify contrasting experiences of Indigenous communities, settlers, and Chinese railway workers.
• Explain how creator, purpose, and date shape historical sources.
• Compare advertisements, diaries, letters, maps, and oral histories.+ Show more

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• Compare Indigenous oral histories and colonial records as historical evidence.
• Evaluate source purpose, viewpoint, and potential bias.
• Corroborate historical claims using evidence from different sources.+ Show more

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• Identify the main features and defensive purposes of trench systems.
• Explain how machine guns, artillery, and gas influenced battlefield tactics.
• Analyze how geography and logistics contributed to military stalemate.+ Show more

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• Identify causes and effects of treaty decisions in Canadian history.
• Compare First Nations and government priorities during treaty negotiations.
• Explain consequences of settlement expansion for different communities.+ Show more

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• Identify historical source types and explain their value as evidence.
• Evaluate source credibility, purpose, perspective, and relevance.
• Compare Indigenous and settler perspectives on Canadian historical events.+ Show more

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• Compare civil rights strategies in the United States and South Africa.
• Identify India's constitutional approach to caste discrimination.
• Explain the roles of grassroots organizing and international sanctions.+ Show more

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• Identify primary, secondary, and oral history sources in Canadian examples.
• Evaluate source authenticity, context, purpose, perspective, and potential bias.
• Corroborate historical claims by comparing independent accounts and evidence.+ Show more

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• Compare negotiated independence and armed struggles across Asia and Africa.
• Explain how nationalism influenced anticolonial independence movements.
• Analyze the effects of settler interests on political transitions.+ Show more

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• Identify colonial land policies affecting Indigenous communities in Canada.
• Explain how residential schools disrupted family and cultural connections.
• Describe the Indian Act's influence on First Nations governance.+ Show more

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• Interpret income distribution data to identify changing economic disparities.
• Compare economic inequality within countries and between countries.
• Explain how automation and globalization affect workers' earning opportunities.+ Show more

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• Identify Indigenous oral traditions, settler records, and colonial archives.
• Compare historical accounts describing the same place or event.
• Explain how cultural context shapes interpretations of historical evidence.+ Show more

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• Identify strategies colonial authorities used to extend territorial control.
• Explain how colonial settlement affected Indigenous land access and sovereignty.
• Compare colonial territorial claims with existing Indigenous land relationships.+ Show more

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• Explain how apartheid laws restricted movement and equal rights.
• Compare domestic resistance with international anti-apartheid campaigns.
• Evaluate the benefits and costs of economic sanctions.+ Show more

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• Identify major migration routes and riverside settlement patterns.
• Explain economic and political motivations for colonial migration.
• Compare French settler and British Loyalist migration experiences.+ Show more

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• Identify European motivations for exploration and contact in North America.
• Explain Indigenous contributions to early trade and navigation.
• Describe how diplomacy and alliances influenced early relationships.+ Show more

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• Analyze cultural symbols as expressions of identity and historical memory.
• Compare anthropological, historical, and literary interpretations of cultural artifacts.
• Explain cultural continuity and adaptation within Indigenous and diasporic communities.+ Show more

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• Analyze political messages in murals, performance, and poetry.
• Identify symbolism, repetition, and contrast in protest art.
• Compare local resistance with transnational cultural movements.+ Show more

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• Compare Indigenous and settler interpretations of treaty promises.
• Explain differences between oral histories and colonial written records.
• Analyze changes to Indigenous land access during colonization.+ Show more