Adult Basic Education Level 4 (Adult 12)
Program Overview
The Adult 12 program is a seven (7) credit course. Courses offered allow the learner the flexibility to plan their career path. The subjects offered include Math 20, English Language Arts A30 and B30, Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Math A30, Math B30, Math C30, Physics 30, Information Processing 30, Life Transitions 30 and Native Studies 30. With the completion of the ABE Adult 12 Program learners will have achieved the provincial Adult 12 Secondary Program allowing for direct access to the workforce, vocational training programs and university. Coupled with the academic program is the support learners receive nurturing the development of personal and social attributes relevant to creating sustainable, independent and contributing citizens.
Courses
(click item to view course description)The aim of the Physics program is to motivate students and to facilitate their attainment of scientific literacy as defined by the factors within the Dimensions of Scientific Literacy. All of the science programs developed by Saskatchewan Education share this common aim. Physics 30 core units include the following concepts: kinematics and dynamics, mechanical energy, electricity, current and potential difference, electric circuits, electric power, energy and nuclear physics.
The Native Studies course is to develop and enhance personal awareness, cultural understanding, and to promote the development of positive attitudes in all students towards Indigenous peoples. This course will focus on Canadian Aboriginals and treaty rights, governance, land claims and treaty land entitlements and social development.
The Mathematics program is to graduate numerate individuals who value mathematics and appreciate its role in society. The intent is for students to be confident and competent with everyday situations that demand the use of mathematical concepts, and is intended to stimulate the spirit of inquiry by developing a variety of problem solving skills and abilities.
Mathematics 20 The most important understandings and abilities which should be developed during the course include irrational numbers, consumer mathematics, polynomials, rational expressions, quadratic functions and equations, probability, angles and polygons, . and circles.
Mathematics A30 Permutations and combinations, data analysis, polynomials and rational, relations and functions expressions, exponents and radicals, systems of linear equations, angles and polygons.
Mathematics B30 Number concepts operations, patterns and relations, shape and space, statistics and probability.
Mathematics C30 Quadratic equations, graphing, and trigonometry.Students will acquire the knowledge, skills and abilities to plan and enhance their personal health, family life, community life, and career development in order to effectively manage the change encountered in the transitions they will face throughout life.
Students will learn the skills to process information in four (4) broad areas: keyboarding, computer applications, communications, and management of information.
The aim of the English Language Arts program is to graduate a literate person who is competent and confident in using language for both functional and aesthetic purposes.
ELA A30 is organized around themes that focus on Canadian literature and society.
ELA B30 is an issue-oriented course that is organized around human concerns in a global society, using traditional and contemporary world literature in a comparative manner.The aim of the Chemistry program is to develop scientific literacy in students that focuses on the study of inter-relationships between matter, energy and life. Also included will be laboratory activities, independent research, chemical reactions, kinetics, equilibrium, and oxidation themes.
The aim of the Biology program is to develop scientific literacy in students that focuses on the study of life. The course themes include chemical basis of life, cell structure and function, genetics, animal systems and evolution.
