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Expectations SVN3E Environmental Science

A1.3 identify and locate a variety of print and electronic sources (e.g., Material Safety Data Sheets, appliance manuals, hydro bills, the Live Safe! Work Smart! website) that enable them to address research topics fully and appropriately

A1.9 analyse the information gathered from research sources for logic, accuracy, reliability,adequacy, and bias  A1.10 draw conclusions based on inquiry results and research findings, and justify their conclusions with reference to scientific knowledge

A1.11 communicate ideas, plans, procedures, results,and conclusions orally, in writing, and/or in electronic presentations, using appropriate language and a variety of formats (e.g., datatables, laboratory reports, presentations, graphic organizers, simulations, models, workplace labels)


 * Overall Expectation**

E1. assess the environmental impact of the harvesting and/or extraction of resources, including ways of reducing this impact, and analyse threats to the sustainability of natural resources;
 * Specific Expectations**

E1.1 assess the environmental impact of industrialpractices related to the extracting or harvestingof natural resources, and describe ways in which that impact can be monitored and minimized

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E1.2 analyse, on the basis of research, the impactthat an environmental contaminant, parasite,or bacteria has on the sustainability of a natural resource in Canada (e.g., the effects of PCBs onArctic sea mammals, of sea lice on farmed and wild salmon, of E. coli on water resources)

E3.1 describe the main types of natural resourcesfound in Canada (e.g., forests, minerals, fisheries, wildlife, water, fossil fuels)

E3.3 describe a variety of methods used to extractor harvest natural resources (e.g., drag nets, strip mining, selective cutting of forests)