The Price of Oil module meets curriculum expectations in provincial and territorial curricula across Canada. Details of three provinces are detailed below and others will be added by curriculum experts for each jurisdiction.
Courses |
Overall Expectations |
Civics
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- Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how economic decision making in Canada and the United States impacts quality of life, citizenship and identity
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Entrepreneurship
- Enterprise and Innovation
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- Describe criteria for assessing the feasibility of ideas and strategies
- Apply feasibility criteria to venture alternatives
- Prepare a feasibility analysis
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English
- AB English Language Arts 10 11 12
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- listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to manage ideas and information.
- listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.
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Environment
- AB Natural Resources (Oil & Gas 11)
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- gain a practical understanding of the oil and gas industry in Alberta
- develop a basic understanding of the processing of oil and natural gas
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Geography
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- Develop positive attitudes in relation to the interdependences among peoples
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Science
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- describe the properties of simple hydrocarbons and describe hydrocarbon-based industrial processes that are important in Alberta
- analyze, from a variety of perspectives, the risks and benefits of using chemical processes in meeting human needs and assess technologies for reducing the impact of chemical compounds on the environment
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World Issues
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- analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
- demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
- demonstrate leadership by persuading, compromising and negotiating to resolve conflicts and differences
- demonstrate leadership by engaging in actions that will enhance the well-being of self and others in the community
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Other
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Courses |
Prescribed Learning Outcomes |
Business
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- explain how factors of production including land, labour, capital, and entrepreneurship affect
- outline methods of resource allocation in various economic systems
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Civics
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- students will learn how to become informed decision makers on matters of public concern, thereby better able to assess critically the effects of their choices on themselves and others
- assess the application of democracy with respect to selected 20th and 21st century cases in Canada
- assess the domestic and international effects of Canada’s record with respect to issues and events in the category of the environment
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Economics
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- evaluate the direct effect of economic activity
- evaluate an economic system’s performance based on criteria
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Entrepreneurship
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- identify, describe, and analyse external challenges to business, including increasing competition, globalization, changing customer needs and wants, demographic change, unions, government intervention, and societal influences
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English
- BC English Language Arts 10, 11, 12
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- addresses many of the Key Concepts and PLOs in the ELA program including:
- explaining and arguing
- challenging bias, distortion, and contradiction in texts
- creating a variety of personal, informational, & imaginative texts
- creating thoughtful personal responses, evaluating ideas, and synthesizing and extending thinking
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Environment
- BC Sustainable Resources 11 & 12
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- analyse the environmental, social and economic significance of energy generation and use at the local, provincial, and global levels
- describe the processes associated with the generation and use of energy resources
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Geography
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- addresses all of the “Skills and Processes” PLOs
- explain how Canadians can effect change at the federal and provincial levels
- assess environmental challenges facing Canadians
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Science
- BC Science 10 Science & Technology 11
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- evaluate methods used in the extraction, processing and management of locally used or produced resources (BC)
- discuss the impact of society on natural resource management and the environment
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World Issues
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- apply critical thinking skills to a range of social justice issues, situations, topics
- demonstrate attributes and behaviours that promote social justice
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Courses |
Overall Expectations |
Business
- ON Introduction to Business 9
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- business decision making demonstrate an understanding of how businesses respond to needs, wants, supply, and demand
- demonstrate an understanding of ethics and social responsibility in business
- demonstrate an understanding of sound management practices in business
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Civics
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- assess ways in which people express their perspectives on issues of civic importance
- apply critical thinking skills to a range of issues, situations, and topics
- apply skills of civic discourse and dispute resolution, including consensus building, negotiation, compromise, and majority rule
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Economics
- ON Analysing Current Economic Issues 12
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- describe how groups of stakeholders and markets within an economy are interdependent and may be affected simultaneously by a change
- analyse various economic choices, using the concepts, models ,and processes of economic inquiry
- describe how groups of stakeholders and markets within an economy are interdependent and may be affected simultaneously by a change
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Entrepreneurship
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- generate ideas that match their selected entrepreneurial opportunity and assess the idea that is most appropriate for a new venture
- evaluate the impact of issues related to ethics and social responsibility on the management of organizations
- identify and evaluate ethical business opportunities that emerge from an environmental scan
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English
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- generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience
- interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts
- synthesize and extend thinking about texts
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Environment
- ON Environment and Resource Management 12
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- analyse how human activities have positive and negative effects on natural systems
- analyse patterns of resource availability and use
- explain how the sustainable use of resources may be achieved through the cooperation of governments, businesses, industries, non-governmental organizations, and citizens
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Geography
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- analyse impacts of resource policy, resource management, and consumer choices on resource sustainability in Canada
- analyse issues relating to the sustainability of human systems in Canada
- assess environmental challenges facing Canadians
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Science
- ON Science 9 10 Environmental Science 11
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- analyse social and economic issues related to an environmental challenge, and how societal needs influence scientific endeavours related to the environment
- investigate a range of perspectives that have contributed to scientific knowledge about the environment, and how scientific knowledge and procedures are applied to address contemporary environmental problems
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World Issues
- ON Canadian and World Issues 12
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- explain how the earth’s natural and human systems are interconnected in multiple, complex ways
- evaluate approaches, policies, and principles relating to the protection and sustainability of the planet’s life-support systems
- evaluate the social, economic, and environmental impact of the strategies for sustainable development implemented by a variety of individuals, organizations, and institutions
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Other
- ON Interdisciplinary Studies 12
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