BC – Environmental Science 12 Alignment Guide

The Switch Classroom BC Environmental Science 12 curriculum alignment guide makes it easy for teachers to connect lessons and activities directly to course standards. Each section highlights how our videos, labs, quizzes, and problem sets reinforce required competencies while helping students build strong scientific practices.

This guide shows where Switch Classroom lessons fit into the Environmental Science 12 curriculum, including areas such as systems and sustainability, energy transfer and conservation, environmental impact, and human–environment interactions. Suggested activities like The Energy Around Us quiz, Family Energy Awareness Challenge, and Saving Energy, Saving Water are matched to competencies such as questioning and predicting, processing and analyzing data, and communicating results.

By using the BC Environmental Science 12 curriculum alignment guide, teachers can streamline planning, demonstrate compliance with learning outcomes, and ensure students gain meaningful practice in analysis, problem solving, and communication. Whether assigning a single activity or designing a full unit, this alignment guide provides a clear roadmap for integrating Switch Classroom resources into standards-based instruction, helping educators bring energy and sustainability topics to life in the classroom.

• Science Big Ideas: Human activities cause changes in the global climate system.

• Sample Questions:
• • What are some of the human activities that contribute to climate change? Which of your actions contribute to climate change?
  • How do emissions from electric vehicles differ from those of internal combustion engine vehicles?

• Science Content: Personal Choices and Sustainable Living