Alberta Science Curriculum Alignment Guides
Switch Classroom provides a full set of Alberta Science curriculum alignment guides to help teachers connect lessons and activities to provincial learning outcomes. Each guide shows how videos, labs, quizzes, and problem sets align with science and social studies content areas as well as general learner outcomes such as analyzing and interpreting data, evaluating impacts, designing and refining systems, and applying concepts related to energy and technology.
These guides give teachers a clear framework for lesson planning, make it easy to demonstrate alignment with standards, and provide students with engaging opportunities to apply scientific concepts to real-world energy issues.
Available Guides
- Alberta Grade 5 Science Curriculum Alignment
Lessons on coal, oil, gas, nuclear, wind, hydropower, and bioenergy linked to environmental chemistry, ecosystems, and social studies themes such as trade-offs and policy decisions. - Alberta Grade 6 Science Curriculum Alignment
Activities on energy choices, demand curves, coal, wind, hydropower, solar, and efficiency aligned with outcomes on data analysis, system design, and evaluation. - Alberta Science 10 Curriculum Alignment
Resources on nuclear energy, efficiency, environmental impacts, energy math, and conversions aligned with Energy Flow in Global Systems and Environmental Chemistry. - Alberta Science 20-4 Curriculum Alignment
Lessons on oil, natural gas, coal, efficiency, and life cycle analysis aligned with outcomes on data interpretation, evaluating impacts, and resource decision-making. - Alberta Science 24 Curriculum Alignment
Labs and videos on wind, electricity, efficiency, oil, gas, and coal aligned with outcomes in Environmental Chemistry, Electrical Principles, and resource trade-offs. - Alberta Science 30 Curriculum Alignment
The Switch On series plus labs and debates on solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, coal, and nuclear aligned with Energy Choices, Environmental Chemistry, and social studies themes such as policy and trade-offs.
Why Use These Guides?
- Save time by linking activities directly to Alberta’s provincial standards.
- Reinforce key competencies including questioning, analyzing, evaluating, and communicating.
- Connect classroom instruction to real-world issues in energy, technology, and resource development.
Provide students with hands-on, data-driven learning that builds both content knowledge and problem-solving skills.
To see the full collection of Switch Classroom’s curriculum alignment guides, click here.
