PPZ3C – Health for Life
This course helps students develop a personalized approach to healthy living. Students will examine the factors that affect their own health and the health of individuals in their community. They will learn about the interrelationship of all components of health, including physical, mental, emotional, and social health. The course emphasizes the use of critical- and creative-thinking skills in making decisions related to personal health and in analyzing issues related to health and well-being.
$500.00
Overall Curriculum Expectations – PPZ3C: Health for Life (Grade 11, College Preparation)
A. Understanding Health Concepts
By the end of this course, students will:
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Demonstrate an understanding of the components of the health triangle (i.e., physical, mental/emotional, and social) and the factors that contribute to each component.
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Analyze the influences of heredity, lifestyle, and environment on personal and community health.
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Demonstrate an understanding of how healthy eating habits and physical activity contribute to healthy living.
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Describe the stages of human development and the factors that affect the development of healthy relationships.
B. Making Healthy Choices
By the end of this course, students will:
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Demonstrate the ability to make informed decisions about personal health.
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Demonstrate the ability to access and use information and services that support healthy living.
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Demonstrate an understanding of the factors that contribute to healthy sexuality.
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Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making and goal-setting strategies to develop and maintain healthy lifestyles.
C. Making Connections for Healthy Living
By the end of this course, students will:
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Demonstrate an understanding of how individual health choices and behaviours affect self and others.
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Analyze the impact of social and environmental factors on personal and community health.
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Analyze the role of family, peers, and community in promoting healthy living.
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Demonstrate an understanding of how to advocate for health and well-being within the school and the community.
Course Details
| Course Code | PPZ3C |
| Course Type | College |
| Format | College Preperation |
| Prerequisite | None |
| Tuition Fee | 500 |
| Department | Health |
| Course Title | Health for life |
| Grade | Grade 11 |
| Credit Value | 1.0 |
Course Details
| Course Code | SBI3U |
| Course Type | Academic |
| Format | University Preparation |
| Prerequisite | SNC2D |
| Tuition Fee | 650 – 1300 |
| Department | Science |
| Course Title | Biology |
| Grade | Grade 11 |
| Credit Value | 1.0 |
Overall Curriculum Expectations
By the end of this course the student will:
Scientific Investigation Skills and Career Exploration
- Demonstrate scientific investigation skills (related to both inquiry and research) in the four areas of skills (initiating and planning, performing, and recording, analyzing, and interpreting, and communicating)
- Identify and describe a variety of careers related to the fields of science under study, and identify scientists, including Canadians, who have made contributions to those fields.
Diversity of living Things
- Analyse the effects of various human activities on the diversity of living things.
- Investigate, through laboratory and/or field activities or through simulations, the principles of scientific classification, using appropriate sampling and classification techniques.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of living organisms in terms of the principles of taxonomy and phylogeny.
Evolution
- Analyse the economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages of an artificial selection technology and evaluate the impact of environmental changes on natural selection and endangered species.
- Investigate evolutionary processes and analyses scientific evidence that supports the theory of evolution.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the theory of evolution, the evidence that supports it, and some of the mechanisms by which it occurs.
Genetic processes
- Evaluate the importance of some recent contributions to our knowledge of genetic processes and analyses social and ethical implications of genetic and genomic research.
- Investigates genetic processes, including those that occur during meiosis, and analyses data to solve basic genetic problems involving monohybrid and dihybrid crosses.
- Demonstrates an understanding of concepts, processes, and technologies related to the transmission of hereditary characteristics.
Animals: Structure and Function
- Analyse the relationships between changing societal needs, technological advances, and understanding of internal systems of humans.
- Investigate, through laboratory inquiry or computer simulation, the functional responses of the respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems.
- Demonstrate an understanding of animal anatomy and physiology, and describe disorders of the respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems.
Plants: Anatomy, Growth, and Function
- Evaluate the importance of sustainable use of plants to Canadian society and other cultures.
- Investigate the structures and functions of plant tissues, and factors affecting plants growth.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of vascular plants, including their structures, internal transport systems, and their role in maintaining biodiversity.
Outline of Course Content
| Unit | Title | Time |
| 1 | Diversity of Living Things | 22 hours |
| 2 | Evolution | 22 hours |
| 3 | Genetic Processes | 22 hours |
| 4 | Animals: Structure and Function | 21 hours |
| 5 | Plants: Anatomy, Growth and Function | 21 Hours |
| Final Examination | 2 hours | |
| Total | 110 hours |
