Skill Descriptor: Select an appropriate frame of reference for describing motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Set a reference point and establish positive and negative directions for measurements and descriptions of motion
• Describe apparent motion of an object as viewed by varied frames of reference

Skill Descriptor: Represent position, velocity, and acceleration using vectors.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe properties of scalar and vector quantities
• Describe motion of an object qualitatively in terms of its position, velocity, and acceleration
• Interpret significance of a positive or negative value as an indication of a vector’s direction
• Represent displacement, velocity, and acceleration as vectors on diagrams

Skill Descriptor: Analyze graphically the relationship among displacement, velocity, and time for uniform motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Collect and represent data about uniform motion on a position-time graph
• Create a velocity-time graph from position-time information
• Evaluate the area under a velocity time graph to determine displacement

Skill Descriptor: Analyze algebraically the relationship among displacement, velocity, and time for uniform motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Derive equations for uniform motion using position-time and velocity-time graphs
• Solve problems using the equation for uniform motion, given two of the three variables

Skill Descriptor: Analyze graphically the relationship among displacement, velocity, acceleration, and time for uniformly accelerated motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Collect and represent data on a position-time graph
• Create a velocity-time graph from position-time information and compare trends
• Evaluate the slope of line segments on a velocity-time graph to determine acceleration
• Evaluate the area under a velocity time graph to determine displacement

Skill Descriptor: Analyze algebraically the relationship among displacement, velocity, acceleration and time for accelerated motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Select and justify appropriate kinematics equations for various situations
• Solve problems using kinematics equations for accelerated motion

Skill Descriptor: Determine an approximate value of the local acceleration of gravity using technology.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Collect and display position-time and velocity-time data
• Interpret the acceleration data

Skill Descriptor: Represent forces using vectors.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Distinguish between mass and weight
• Design free-body diagrams, including combinations of the force of gravity (weight), normal force, frictional force, applied force, tension

Skill Descriptor: Analyze forces acting on objects experiencing uniform motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain examples of Newton’s first law in action
• Illustrate that uniform motion happens when forces are balanced (stationary or constant velocity)
• Solve problems using Newton’s first law of motion

Skill Descriptor: Analyze forces acting on individual objects experiencing accelerated motion

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain examples of Newton’s second law in action
• Illustrate that accelerated motion happens when forces are unbalanced
• Derive equations for net force using free-body diagrams
• Solve problems using Newton’s second law of motion

Skill Descriptor: Analyze forces when multiple objects interact.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain examples of Newton’s third law in action
• Illustrate that all forces exist in equal and opposite pairs
• Solve problems using Newton’s third law of motion

Skill Descriptor: Solve problems that connect kinematics and dynamics concepts.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Calculate forces acting on accelerating objects, given kinematics information
• Calculate kinematics values for accelerating objects, given dynamics information

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the relationships between work, power, kinetic, and potential energies associated with moving objects.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Analyze the relationship among force, distance, and work
• Analyze the relationship among work, power, and time
• Analyze the relationship between mass, velocity, and kinetic energy
• Analyze the relationship between mass, acceleration due to gravity, height, and gravitational energy
• Analyze the relationship between force constant, shape change in an elastic object, and elastic energy

Skill Descriptor: Analyze energy transformations.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify types of energies in various situations
• Describe how energy is conserved as it transforms
• Solve problems that relate work done to energy transformations

Skill Descriptor: Analyze how energy is transmitted as wave action.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Compare the production and characteristics of waves
• Apply the universal wave equation to solve problems

Skill Descriptor: Analyze behaviours of waves.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain examples of wave behaviours in action, such as reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference

Skill Descriptor: Model safety practices.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Conduct individual or collaborative investigations safely by following a plan
• Identify behaviours that will keep own self and others safe
• Safely use tools

Skill Descriptor: Model sustainability practices.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Assess and communicate risk and ethical issues associated with investigation methods
• Conduct science experiments/field investigations while following environmentally appropriate practices
• Identify effects of the chosen solution and/or technology on people and the environment considering criteria
• Explain why practical solution to a scientific or technological problem requires a compromise between competing priorities

Skill Descriptor: Apply technology and inquiry skills.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Create testable questions and hypotheses about relationships between variables
• Identify major variable(s) to be controlled
• Select and use appropriate tools and methods for collecting data
• Construct models to make testable predictions
• Analyze patterns and trends in data
• Explain inconsistencies in data
• Describe specific ways to improve the quality of data
• Communicate scientific and technological ideas and information for different audiences
• Use appropriate scientific and technological language, conventions, and representations

Skill Descriptor: Explore physics careers.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore physics-based careers in Canada based on own interests
• Share how skills and concepts learned in physics may be transferable to a career path