Big Ideas:
- Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.
Curricular Competencies
COMPREHEND/CONNECT
CREATE/COMMUNICATE
- Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
- Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
CREATE/COMMUNICATE
- Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message.
- Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
Assignments/Activities:
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
- Creative writing (perspective writing)
- 40 Books Challenge - Can you read 40 books by the end of June?
- Book Requirements:
- 10 Chapter-books of their choice
- 2 Graphic novels
- 4 First Nations literature
- 2 Award winners
- 6 Realistic fiction
- 2 Historical Fiction
- 2 Fantasy
- 2 Science Fiction
- 2 Mystery
- 6 Informational
- 2 Biography/autobiography
- Book Requirements:
- Novel Analyses
Big Ideas:
- Properties of objects and shapes can be described, measured, and compared using volume, area, perimeter, and angles.
Curricular Competencies:
UNDERSTANDING/SOLVING
CONNECTING/REFLECTING
- Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving.
CONNECTING/REFLECTING
- Connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interests
Assignments/Activities:
- Division, Percentages, Ratios, Fractions
- Classroom Economy (calculating taxes and money management)
Big Ideas:
- TBA
Curricular Competencies:
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Assignments/Activities:
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Big Ideas:
Curricular Competencies:
QUESTIONING AND PREDICTING
COMMUNICATING
- The solar system is part of the Milky Way, which is one of billions of galaxies.
Curricular Competencies:
QUESTIONING AND PREDICTING
- Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
COMMUNICATING
- Communicate ideas, explanations, and processes in a variety of ways
Assignments/Activities:
- Research project on space
Big Ideas:
- Media sources can both positively and negatively affect our understanding of important events and issues.
- Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of a variety of sources, including mass media(evidence)
- Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations (perspective)
Assignments/Activities:
- Fake News
Big Idea
Curricular Competencies
Assignments
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Curricular Competencies
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Assignments
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Big Ideas:
- Leadership represents good planning, goal-setting, and collaboration.
Curricular Competencies:
- Set realistic short- and longer-term learning goals, define a path, and monitor progress
- Appreciate the importance of respect, inclusivity, and other positive behaviours in diverse, collaborative learning, and work environments.
Assignments/Activities
- Classroom Economy
- Group Projects
Big Ideas:
- Physical literacy and fitness contribute to our success in and enjoyment of physical activity.
- We experience many changes in our lives that influence how we see ourselves and others.
Curricular Competencies:
PHYSICAL LITERACY
MENTAL WELL-BEING
- Develop and apply a variety of movement concepts and strategies in different physical activities
- Develop and demonstrate safety, fair play, and leadership in physical activities
MENTAL WELL-BEING
- Explore and describe strategies for managing physical, emotional, and social changes during puberty.
Assignments/Activities:
- Basketball
- Minor games
- Run Around the World
- The Reproductive System
Big Idea:
- TBA
Curricular Competencies:
- TBA
Assignments/Activities:
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