BC – Science 9 Alignment Guide

The Switch Classroom BC Science 9 curriculum alignment guide connects engaging lessons and activities to the provincial standards. Each activity is mapped to competencies such as questioning and predicting, processing and analyzing data, planning and conducting, applying and innovating, evaluating, and communicating. This provides teachers with a structured way to demonstrate alignment while reinforcing core scientific practices.

The guide highlights key science content areas including electricity, energy transfer and conservation, and resource use, along with social studies areas such as human–environment interactions and resource development.

Featured lessons include Introduction to Electricity, where students practice dimensional analysis through multiple-choice questions and math problems, and Introduction to Energy Storage, which combines a video, exit ticket, and a battery circuit modeling activity. The Science of Electricity video introduces electricity generation and is paired with class discussion, while What Powers the World prompts students to connect electricity use to their daily lives through a think-pair-share activity. Finally, Understanding Energy Transformations provides a reading, challenge questions, and slide deck review to deepen understanding.

With the BC Science 9 curriculum alignment guide, teachers can save planning time, align directly to curriculum expectations, and support students in building both content knowledge and analytical skills.

• Science Big Ideas:
  • Electric current is the flow of electric charge. How do electrons flow in a circuit?
  • The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.
• Science Content:
  • Circuits
  • Voltage, currents, and resistance
  • Matter cycles within ecosystems
  • Sustainability of systems
  • Effects of solar radiation on the cycling of matter and energy