Science and Technology 11 Assignments

• INTRODUCTORY ASSIGNMENTS
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• Complete the ST11 Introductory Assignment.

• Review Course Outline and Curriculum

• Observe the Science and Technology PowerPoint.

• Make a list of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology and then observe the Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology powerpoint

• Complete the 10 Tech Terms to Know in 2014 assignment using the link in the notes.

• Complete the 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know in 2014 assignment using the link in the notes.

• Complete the Science vs Technology Assignment

• Scientific Discoveries Play Catch-Up To Indigenous Wisdom

• Complete the assignment What Islamic World Did For Us by watching the video of the same title.

• Use the instructions here to Build a Newton's Cradle

• Build a home made pump, build a "trick" jug (the balloon in the bottle trick is similar and easier to construct), construct a pinhole "camera" and screen, build a simple gear set that changes the direction of rotation (styrofoam though less durable might be easy to work with), make a spinning top, make a balancing toy

• Edheads - Simple Machines

• Simple Machines Make Things Go (Worksheet)

• Lesson: Engineering: Simple Machines

• Complete the assignment Engineering an Empire - Rome by watching the video of the same title.

• Complete the assignment Engineering an Empire - Britain by watching the video of the same title.

• Productivity Improving Technologies Assignment using the Wikipedia article of the same name.

• AGRICULTURE

• Complete the History of Agriculture Assignment using Wikipedia.

• Read Chapter 19 in the textbook (Page 434 to 465) and complete the Chapter 19 Notes Assignment.

• Refer to the History Toolkit at DoHistory.org and construct a timeline of the significant technological advancements in the history of agriculture. You can pick from technological advancements listed at Wikipedia's Timeline of agriculture and food technology or The Robinson Library's A Timeline of Agricultural Developments or other sources. Include a minimum of ten advancements on your timeline.

• Using the Yukon farm products & services guide, and similar resources, create a brochure or poster that summarizes the unique technological requirements necessary for Agriculture in the Yukon because of its unique challenges.

• Referring to the Northern Greenhouse Design website, what features are unique and necessary to a NORTHERN greenhouse?

• Construct a scale model of a northern green house. For tips go to Wikipedia We will use the application SketchUp to construct a virtual model. It's on the school computers. To use it at home download it here: www.sketchup.com

• Traditional Plant Knowledge of the Tsimshian

• Go to Your Genome Activities and construct Origami DNA, Sequence Bracelets or Yummy Gummi DNA

• Go to Genome British Columbia and Make DNA Jewelery featuring Your Name!

• Go to Genome British Columbia and Create a DNA model you can eat!

• Compare the traditional method of selective breeding with one of the latest transgenic methods by engineering a crop

• Try to Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

• Go to Genetic Engineering in Agriculture What is Genetic Engineering? What are the potential benefits? What are the health and environmental risks? What are the alternatives to Genetic Engineering?

• Go to Genetically Engineered and Grown in BC? What percentage of processed foods likely contain genetically engineered ingredients? What are the four genetically engineered crops that can be grown legally in Canada at this time? What are the two main reasons that corn is genetically engineered? How are the genetically engineered salmon produced by AquaBounty different from conventional salmon? What were the two sources of genetic material in developing the Enviropig™?

• Go to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) - Scitable Spotlight for a brief history of GMOs.

• Complete the Should We Grow GM Foods? assignment.

• Using the Yukon farm products & services guide as a starting point, choose a career that involves Agriculture in the Yukon. Conduct more research to learn more about the aspects of that career. Write a letter to the Comeau Foundation that explains why you should get a scholarship of $50,000 to pursue this career.

• Use the article OVERVIEW OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM to complete the Global Food System Assignment

• Complete The Definitive Guide to Traditional Food Preparation and Preservation Assignment

• Complete the Traditional Methods of food preservation assignment

• Complete the Food Processing Assignment using the Food processing article From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Complete the Beverage Can Assignment using the Beverage can article on wikipedia

• Global Advances in Food Packaging (Technical Insights)

• Lesson: Food Packaging in the associated activity, students act as if they are packaging engineers by designing and creating their own food packages for particular food types.

• Food Science Activity Guide

• APPLIED CHEMISTRY

• How Wood Alcohol Poisonings Advanced Toxicology

• The Chemical Industry

• Complete the assignment Controversy in Chemistry by googling each article.

• How can I stop bananas from turning brown?

• How can you make popcorn kernels dance?

• Contaminants of Concern

• Use fermentation to make ginger ale

• Hands-on Activity: Acid Attack

• Hands-on Activity: Acid Rain Effects

• Make Ink and Paper

• Make Sugar & Epsom Salt Crystals

• Build a Solar Purifier to learn about distillation

• FORENSICS

• Edheads - Crash Scene Investigation

• Forensic Science Assignment

• DIY Detective Lab- Book ‘em and Print ‘em

• Prints All Over the Place (Forensic Science Experiments)

• Download the Vehicle Inventory form from the Washington County Sheriff Office Property Evidence Manual and fill it out using your parents vehicle.

• Gather footprint or tire track impression evidence using the procedure described in the Washington County Sheriff Office Property Evidence Manual

• Forensic vacuum was key to solving Utah cold-case murder

• 10 MODERN FORENSIC SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES

• Forensics Activities

• INTEGRATED CURRICULUM UNIT ON FORENSICS Crime Scene Investigation

• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

• High School Forensics Science Fair Project Ideas

• Foot to Height

• Using the Eyes to Tell the Age of a Victim

• The Eyes Have It: Researchers Can Now Determine When A Human Was Born By Looking Into The Eyes Of The Dead

• HEALTH

• Read Chapter 24 in the textbook (Page 582 to 603), and compete the Medical Technology Assignment.

• Using books or the internet, complete the Medical/Health Technology Project

• The Science Museum's History of Medicine website

• First Nations Traditional Medicine Diet

• Go to Lesson 5 and 6 and complete the case studies Two Ways of Knowing: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge

• Read the Article: Replacement Parts and complete the questions

• Nanotechnology, Biological Engineering and the Future of Biosensors

• Go to the Nanotechnology Laboratory at Health Canada What are Nano-Scale Drug Delivery Systems?

• Go to the Northern Contaminants Program website. What is the northern contaminants program?

• Go to the Health Canada: Centre for Vaccine Evaluation (CVE) Research Laboratories Click on the Virology Laboratory and the Vaccines Laboratory.

• Stem Cells Laboratory

• Breakfast Try this food science activity to see the iron in your cereal.
• NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• The Nature and Utility of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

• Telling a pine from a maple ... from space!

• Remote sensing used by the Canadian Forest Service

• Use the notes on mining to complete the Mining Assignment

• Cookie Mining

• Complete the Oils Sands Assignment using Oil Sands A strategic resource for Canada, North America and the global market

• Core Sampling

• Exploring for Petroleum - Modeling an Oil Reserve

• Getting the Oil Out

• Simulate an Oil Spill Cleanup

• Complete the Coal Assignment using wikipedia.

• Complete the Nuclear Energy Assignment using wikipedia.

• Oil Sands Aboriginal Peoples

• Complete the Firewood Assignment using wikipedia

• Exploring for Petroleum - Modeling an Oil Reserve

• Getting the Oil Out

• Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013

• Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013 Interactive data visualisations

• Clean Energy: Choose Renewables First!

• Curricular Unit: Environment

• Curricular Unit: Dams

• Make a Water Wheel

• COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATION

• Read Chapter 22 in textbook (Page 514 to 550).

• Connected devices quietly mine our data, privacy experts say Hackers could use them as stepping stone to another part of your network

• Information and Technology Assignment

• How do we talk to machines?

• - Go to CodeHS Learn about programming!

• Complete the Hacker Assignment using Wikipedia

• Complete the Robot Assignment using Wikipedia

• Complete the Robotics Assignment using Wikipedia

• Curricular Unit: Humans Are Like Robots

• HOME AND TECHNOLOGY

• Read Chapter 20 in the textbook (Page 466 to 491) and complete the Chapter 20 Construction Technology Notes assignment.

• First Nations Architecture

• The Learning Circle Go to Unit 2 - Traditional Dwellings

• Go to How House Construction Works

• How tall can you build a marshmallow structure that will support weight ?

• Try some Salt Engineering to see how trusses work to distribute forces in a roof.

• Check out The Alaska Highway: A Yukon Perspective website and play the Alaska Highway Game.

• The World's 18 Strangest Bridges

• Our Alaska Highway Bridges

• 21st Annual Yukon Bridge Building Contest

• Build a Solar Cooker

• Download RenewablesAre Ready

  Go to page 17 and build a solar water heater or go to page 23 and build a solar box cooker.

• Download APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

  Go to Page 26 and build a solar cooker or go to page 37 and take the SOLAR COOKER DESIGN CHALLENGE.

  A home in a box (Yukon News)

• Solar Cooking

• Make a Vacuum Cleaner

• Fredericton man builds $300 solar furnace, decreases heating bill

• PERSONAL TECHNOLOGIES

• Edheads - Design a Cell Phone

• Hands-on Activity: Able Sports

• SPACE EXPLORATION

• Beat the Heat! Keeping Cozy in Space

• Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!

• Hands-on Activity: Action-Reaction! Rocket

• Complete Satellites are Objects in Space that Orbit Planets

• Complete Another dead satellite to fall in November

• Hands-on Activity: Super Slinger Engineering Challenge

• Curricular Unit: Mission to Mars

• TRANSPORTATION

• Read Chapter 25 in the textbook (604 to 627).

• Model the actions of a seat belt using a toy car, toy figure, ramp, brick and elastic bands.

• Model the action of brakes using a toy truck, rubber bands and a ramp. If you could only place brakes on the front or back wheels of a vehicle which would be more effective?

• The Learning Circle Go to Unit 1 - Transportation and Travel and Page 14 for wood bending activity.

• Clean Vehicles

• Volkswagen’s deception, and how it was discovered
• Design and build a rollercoaster

• Visit the Virtual Museum exhibit Above & Beyond - Early Yukon Aviation

• Free Paper Airplane Templates

• Balloon Hovercraft

• Lesson: What Floats Your Boat?

• Activity Bank - What floats your boat?

• Why do raisins dance in soda pop?

• Rotors and helicopters

• How fast is a Fidget Spinner?

• END OF TERM ASSIGNMENTS

• Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz

• Technology Quiz

• AGRICULTURE

  A1 describe elements of agricultural systems found locally, provincially, and globally

  A2 describe the role of genetics in agriculture

  A3 evaluate different methods, including those from Aboriginal cultures, of food production, processing, and preservation

  A4 analyse the effects of changing technology in agriculture on society

  APPLIED CHEMISTRY

  B1 classify chemicals commonly found in household products

  B2 identify safe chemical disposal methods and compare them to common practices in the community

  B3 design and conduct an experiment to identify and compare properties of household products and demonstrate an awareness of the health, safety, economic, and environmental issues related to their use

  B4 synthesize a common household product

  FORENSICS

  C1 describe methods and technologies used to investigate a crime scene

  C2 discuss how advances in technology have influenced the resolution of crimes

  C3 collect evidence using forensic methodologies to solve a simulated crime

  HEALTH

  D1 describe how current medical technologies are used to address different types of illnesses with respect to transmission, detection, prevention, and treatment

  D2 discuss the role of biology, chemistry, and physics in the development of modern medical technologies

  D3 evaluate different societal perspectives on the development and use of medical technologies including:

  - cultural

  - local

  - provincial

  - national

  - international

  NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

  E1 describe the major natural resources found in British Columbia

  E2 evaluate methods used in the extraction, processing, use and management of a locally used or produced resource

  E3 discuss the impact of society on natural resource management and the environment

  E4 analyse the impact of technologies on the environment

  COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATION

  F1 use a computer to complete an assignment

  F2 identify basic computer components and explain the integration and operating principles of the components

  F3 describe the impact of science on the development of computers

  F4 evaluate the impact of computers on society

  F5 predict potential products and opportunities made possible by the development of computers

  HOME AND TECHNOLOGY

  G1 explain the basic scientific principles related to the structural integrity of shelters

  G2 identify different types of indigenous shelters and the influence of local cultures and natural environment on their construction

  G3 examine how science and technology advances have contributed to the design and construction of shelters

  G4 discuss the role of building codes in the design and construction process

  G5 examine current home technologies and describe how they impact family life and societal relations

  PERSONAL TECHNOLOGIES

  H1 investigate personal technologies currently used on a regular basis

  H2 relate a current technology to pre-existing technologies

  H3 describe how a personal technology integrates with a system

  SPACE EXPLORATION

  I1 identify recent contributions, including Canada’s, to the development of space exploration technologies

  I2 describe spin-offs resulting from space technologies and their impact on society

  I3 illustrate how space conditions act as a limiting factor on space-based scientific knowledge

  I4 predict future trends in technology related to space exploration

  TRANSPORTATION

  J1 describe the roles of transportation in society and the effects transportation has had on society

  J2 identify key scientific and technological changes that have taken place in transportation

  J3 analyse features incorporated into particular types of transportation

  J4 describe a transportation system and evaluate its impact on society

  J5 analyse a mode of transportation and the technologies associated with its design, construction, and operation