2008 09 Calendar.indd - Algoma District School Board

Nave Languages, Ojibwe Level 2, Open (LNOBO)
This course will enable students to experience the unique respect for life that permeates Nave languages and cultures. Students will
expand their vocabulary and knowledge of phrases and expressions, using them in simple dialogues, narrave wring, grammacal
construcons, and reading, and to exchange informaon electronically. This course is open to any student who has successfully
completed at least four years of elementary Nave languages study, has successfully completed NL1, or demonstrates the required
proficiency. WC Eaket only
Science
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Science, Grade 10 LDCC (SNC2L)
This course emphasizes reinforcing and strengthening science-related knowledge and skills, including scienfic inquiry, crical
thinking, and the environmental impact of science and technology, to prepare students for success in everyday life, in the workplace,
and in the Science Grade 11 Workplace Preparaon course. Students explore a wide range of topics, including science in the media,
interacons of common materials, interdependence of organisms in communies, and using electrical energy. Students have the
opportunity to extend mathemacal and scienfic process skills and to connue developing their skills in reading, wring, and oral
language through relevant and praccal science acvies. Prerequisite: None Alexander Henry only
Science, Grade 10 Applied (SNC2P)
This course enables students to develop a deeper understanding of concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and
physics; to develop further their praccal skills in scienfic invesgaon; and to apply their knowledge of science to real-world
situaons. Students will design and conduct invesgaons into everyday problems and issues related to ecological sustainability,
chemical reacons, weather systems, and moon. Prerequisite: SNC1P or SNC1D All schools except Alexander Henry
Science, Grade 10, Academic (SNC2D)
This course enables students to develop a deeper understanding of concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and
physics; to develop further their skills in scienfic inquiry; and to understand the interrelaonships among science, technology, and
the environment. Students will conduct invesgaons and understand scienfic theories related to: ecology and the maintenance of
ecosystems; chemical reacons, with parcular aenon to acid-base reacons; factors that influence weather systems; and moon.
Prerequisite: SNC1D (recommended) or SNC1P All schools except Alexander Henry. Also offered as part of the French Immersion
Program at SJD.
Social Sciences and Humanities
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Food and Nutrion, Grade 9 or 10 Open (HFN1O/HFN2O)
This course explores the factors that affect atudes and decisions about food, examines current issues of body image and food
markeng, and is grounded in the scienfic study of nutrion. Students will learn how to make informed food choices and how to
prepare foods, and will invesgate our Canadian food heritage and food industries, as well as global food issues. The course also
introduces students to research skills related to food and nutrion. All schools except Alexander Henry, Chapleau, and Hornepayne
Technological Education
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Communicaons Technology, Grade 10 Open (TGJ2O)
This course requires students to complete a range of communicaons technology projects. These may include creang printed
staonery, short videos, computer-generated animaons, and graphical informaon displays. Students will learn to transfer
informaon using electronic, live, and graphic communicaons methods. The knowledge and skills they will develop will provide a
basis for careers in areas such as publishing, adversing, print producon, animaon, photography, and journalism. Alexander Henry,
Bawang, CASS, Elliot Lake, and Korah only
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