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Language features, structures, and conventions: phonemic and phonological awareness
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Read > Know It! > Classics
activity - Explore Read, Know It! and Classics sections - all support this idea.
Exploring Read Aloud Texts and Media Features
Comprehend and connect: Use play and other creative means to discover foundational concepts of print, oral, and visual texts
Language features, structures, and conventions: phonemic and phonological awareness
Classics > Nursery Rhymes and Songs
activity - Explore and discuss concepts having common auditory experiences with songs and rhymes. Using the new vocabulary, individually or in pairs create short rhymes or songs.
Explore a Variety of Songs and Rhymes
Explore artistic expressions of themselves and community through creative processes
Students are expected to know the following elements in the arts including music: beat/pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitch, dynamics
Know It! > Me, Myself, and I > Parts of the body, Inside my body, Muscles
activity - Explore body parts and how they work together. Play action games/songs with body parts. Discuss how they interact and work together. Note: this resource does not include male and female body parts.
Learning About Body Parts and Functions
Describe the body's reaction to participating in physical activity in a variety of environments
Names for parts of the body, including male and female private parts' names
Read > Welcome to Reading > Level A > What's That
activity - Read the story, then read the pictures. Can you identify any 2D or 3D shapes in the pictures? (e.g. bus=rectangle, soccer ball=circle)
Exploring Attributes of Objects in Our World
Connecting and reflecting: Connect mathematical concepts to each other and make mathematical connections to the real world
Single attributes of 2D shapes and 3D objects
Read > Welcome to Reading > Level A > Seasons
activity - Read Seasons and see additional images at bottom - Compare printed season information with personal experience.
Comparing Book Knowledge to Personal Knowledge
Questioning and predicting: demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
Weather changes, seasonal changes
Read > Welcome to Reading > Level D > Working it out
activity - Read Working it Out and see additional images/videos on bottom.
Solving Problems Peacefully
Acknowledge different perspectives on people, places, issues, and events in their lives (perspective)
Needs and wants of individuals and families
Know It! > People at work > Mail Carrier
activity - Read People at work-mail carrier, and explore what it means to buy stamps. Practice "buying" stamps by trading 10, making computations to 10, coin denominations of $.01, $.05, $.10. Write letters and "mail" them to each other using class created stamps.
Our Community Mail Carrier and Buying Stamps
Connect mathematical concepts to each other and make mathematical connections to the real world
Financial literacy: Values of coins and monetary exchanges."Money is a medium of exchange"
Classics > Nursery Rhymes and Songs
activity - Students explore nursery rhymes and develop actions for one to share with the class.
Nursery Rhymes: Playing with Language, Rhythm, and Rhyme
Communicating and documenting: Experience, document, perform, and share creative works in a variety of ways
Elements in the arts, including but not limited to: dance, body, space, dynamics, time, relationships
Creative Thinking
I can get new ideas or build on other people’s ideas, to create new things within the constraints of a form, a problem, or materials.
Know It! > People at Work, Watch > People
activity - Review the books and videos and help students make connections to people in their lives who fill those roles.
People in Our Community
Explore different perspectives on people, places, issues, and events in their lives (perspective)
Characteristics of the local community that provide organization and meet the needs of the community
Read > Trek's Travels > Trek Learns About Numbers, Shapes, Sounds, Size, and Texture
activity - Explore several of Trek's books dealing with properties of matter. Explore in partners the features and properties of objects within the classroom.
Learning Descriptions for Properties
Planning and conducting: Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions
Specific properties of materials connected to the function of the materials
Watch > Health
activity - Watch several videos on aspects of health. Students share how they act and stay healthy in their family.
Well-being
Mental well-being: Identify and describe practices that promote mental well-being
Caring behaviours in groups and families
Read > Welcome to Reading > Level A > The Kite Savers
activity - Choose a story to read together. Individually or in pairs read another story, practice retelling, or create a new 'Taffy' story.
Learning About Stories
Comprehend and connect: Recognize the structure and elements of story
Story/text: Elements of story
Kids > Games > Puzzles and Quizzes
activity - Play the "Water Wiz" game as a class, make connections to self and find ways to save water at school and at home.
Water is a Limited Resource
Processing and analyzing data and information: Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
Water is a limited resource
Classics > Story Corner > (Hare and Tortoise)
activity - Listen and read a story, talk about the language and meaning in the story, and develop class plays with students role playing the characters in the story as the teacher reads the story aloud.
Reading Classics and Role Playing Characters in Stories
Comprehend and connect: Use age-appropriate reading, listening, and viewing behaviours and strategies to make meaning from texts
Strategies and processes: Reading strategies, oral language strategies, metacognitive strategies, writing processes
Read > Welcome to Reading > Level A > The Bus Ride
activity - Read various stories and review direct number concepts as well as size and shape comparisons.
Counting, Sequencing, One to One Correspondence with Numbers and Objects
Develop, construct, and apply mathematical understanding through role play, inquiry, and problem solving
Change in quantity using pictorial and symbolic representation
Read > Welcome to Reading > Level D > Lending a Hand
activity - Review several stories in Level D. Share ways people help each other.
Exploring Stories About People
Explain why people's beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences, and roles give them different perspectives on people, places, issues, and events (perspective)
How people's needs and wants are met in communities
Communication
I can understand and share information about a topic that is important to me.
Science Projects > Your Body > What's your breathing rate needs?
activity - Students develop self-awareness of breathing rate. Breathing rate is related to level of exertion. Have students develop a scale of exertion based on their breathing rate while doing different activities.
What's Your Breathing Rate?
Apply methods of monitoring exertion levels in physical activity
Ways to monitor physical exertion levels
Ecosystems > Ecology > Food Chains and Webs
activity - Explore the unit together to consider the experiment to study how plants use sunlight to produce new plant material.
Ecoystems
Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate curiosity about the natural world
Energy needed for life
Social Responsibility
I can participate in classroom and group activities to improve the classroom, school, community, or natural world.
Search > Cinco de Mayo
activity - Share books from the Celebrate series such as Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Fiestas, Music and Dance.
Explore Arts in Cultures
Exploring and creating: Explore relationships among cultures, communities, and the arts
A variety of local works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places
Search > Health > More Information
activity - Explore the article, and the More Information section with additional topics, websites, and games.
Learning From Health Connections
Describe ways to access information on and support services for a variety of health topics
Strategies for accessing health information
Science Projects > Plants > What do seeds need to germinate?
activity - By completing a controlled experiment, you can examine the findings. (Don't provide the discussion answers to students.).
Design an Experiment Considering Probable Outcomes
Reasoning and analyzing: Develop mental math strategies and abilities to make sense of quantities
Measurement, using standard units (linear, mass, and capacity)
Timelines > World History > Canadian History > Explore three timelines
activity - Explore several existing timelines. Have students create a sticker for an important cultural event to place on a class timeline. Students create a timeline for Key Aboriginal dates such as: the Indian Act, Charter of Rights and Freedoms then share in small groups.
Exploring Culture Events Over Time
Sequence objects, images, and events, and explain why some aspects change and others stay the same (continuity and change)
Aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and cultures
Social Responsibility
I can participate in classroom and group activities to improve the classroom, school, community, or natural world.
Search > Culture
activity - Explore the variety of resources including pictures, videos, books, and magazine articles. Work with students to read and gather information from each form of text.
Reading Text, Images, and Video
Identify how differences in context, perspectives, and voice influence meaning in texts
Language features, structures and conventions: features of oral language, paragraph structure, sentence structure and grammar conventions
Passport to the Internet > Ticket Booth > My Face (or Instant Pigeon)
activity - Explore creation of a MyFace mock account and and learn how to keep personal information safe online.
Healthy Use of the Internet
Describe and assess strategies for responding to discrimination, stereotyping, and bullying. Describe and apply strategies for developing and maintaining positive relationships
Strategies for responding to bullying, discrimination, and violence
Personal Awareness
I can make choices that benefit my well being and keep me safe in my community, including my online interactions.
Search > "Fur Trade" Canada
activity - Review Fur Trade, Colonialism, and Exploration. Identify impacts these had on local environment, local culture, developing economy of Canada, and providing resources to Europe. Choose an article and evaluate information about the ethical decisions that were made and the resulting impact on First Nations populations.
Natural Resources
Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, and actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place (ethical judgment)
The fur trade in pre-Confederation Canada and British Columbia
Explore > Arts
activity - Explore the variety of forms and artistic expressions. Choose one form to demonstrate or describe in small groups.
Survey of Arts
Explore relationships among cultures, societies, and the arts
A variety of regional and national works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places
World of Animals > Choose Animal type > Choose an animal > Select Compare Animals > Choose second animal
activity - Identify two items to compare. Have students look at the features to compare the numerical and visual data.
Comparison
Connect mathematical concepts to each other and make mathematical connections to the real world
Number concepts to 10,000
Matter > States of Matter > Solids Liquids and Gases
activity - Review lesson set for Solids, Liquids, and Gases, then follow instructions for a safe experiment.
Matter
Planning and conducting: Suggest ways to plan and conduct an inquiry to find answers to their questions
Solids, liquids, and gases as matter
Explore Topics > Environment
activity - Explore media related to the environment. Take a nature walk and use new vocabulary in activities.
Environment
Processing and analyzing data and information: Experience and interpret the local environment
Aboriginal concept of interconnectedness in the environment
Select Publications (Magazines) > Search for topic of personal interest
activity - Choose a magazine of personal interest, and read the magazine/article. Share text connections with a peer.
Exploring Text
Comprehend and connect: Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and develop understanding of self, community, and world
Story/text: Form, function, and genre of texts, features of written text, perspective/point of view
Search > Money > Books > Everything Money
activity - Read and share experiences with money, currency, and bartering. Discuss forms of recognized value within the school: token economy, earning time outside, etc.
Money as Value
Use reasoning and logic to explore and make connections
Financial literacy monetary calculations, including making change with amounts to 1000 dollars and developing simple financial plans
Publications > Primary Search > Kayak > 2008 > Issue 23
activity - Assign groups of students different articles within the Sept/Oct 2008 Kayak Magazine. Using the Jigsaw method have groups share what they learned with other groups.
Immigration
Take stakeholders' perspectives on issues, developments, and events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations
The changing nature of Canadian immigration over time
Critical Thinking
I can ask open-ended questions and gather information.
Living Things > Human Body > Digestive, Urinary, and Endocrine Systems
activity - Learn about the digestive system and relate it to making healthy choices, including food choices.
Digestive, Urinary, and Endocrine Systems
Analyze and describe the connections between eating, physical activity, and mental well-being
Food choices to support active lifestyles and overall health
Select > Dictionnaire Visuel
activity - Explore familiar themes, look for patterns in types of words and their structures. Switch to English view to verify vocabulary understanding.
Vocabulary Building
Identify key information in slow, clear speech and other simple texts
Vocabulary and structures for expressing personal information and simple descriptions
Search > "Student Activism", narrow to a global issue relevant to students
activity - Students explore search results on student activism. Connect learning to a second search on a global issue such as 'Climate Change' to narrow search terms to a topic or aspect of interest or passion. Sample student Inquiry question - How can we work together globally to make a global impact?
Students Making a Difference
Differentiate between short- and long-term causes, and intended and unintended consequences, of events, decisions, and developments (cause and consequence)
International cooperation and responses to global issues
Critical Thinking
I can reflect on and evaluate my thinking, products, and actions.
Choose Databases to include Middle Search Plus > Publications (Top left menu bar) > Middle Search Plus > Search "Allons-Y"
activity - Students read articles of interest to gain knowledge and learn use of language.
Explore French Magazine Stories
Employ basic strategies to increase understanding of texts
Vocabulary and structures to describe family, pets, friends, and community member, vocabulary and structures related to hobbies and topics of interest
Select Publications (top left menu bar) > Search for Magazine titles of personal interest
activity - Choose and read a magazine of personal interest. Find an article of particular interest to share with a peer and highlight why this topic is personally meaningful.
Passion-based Reading
Comprehend and connect: Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Story/text: Form, function, and genre of texts, features of written text, perspective/point of view
Matter > Mixtures and Solutions
activity - Complete Mixtures and Solutions lesson. Review suggested experiment and work with class to develop another experiment with the same desired results.
Heterogenous Mixtures
Planning and conducting: Explore and pose questions that lead to investigations
Heterogeneous mixtures
Search > Music > Related Information Tab
activity - As a warm up or flipped activity, students explore a variety of instruments, terms, and sounds, including the concepts of notation.
Music as Language
Reasoning and reflection: Research, describe, interpret, and evaluate how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments in the arts
Purposeful application of elements/principles to create meaning in the arts, including but not limited to music: i.e. beat/pulse, metre, duration, rhythm, tempo, etc.
Find it by > Interactive Maps > State/Province/Region
activity - Students choose a province, read the article, and develop mathematical questions that use specific provincial information for the class to solve.
Know Canada
Engage in problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, and cultural practices relevant to the local community
Whole number percentages and percentage discounts
Search > "Ancient civilizations religion"
activity - Have students explore three articles on religion. Identify features of religion in ancient civilizations including spiritual beliefs, myths, stories, and knowledge.
Belief Systems
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Origins, core beliefs, narratives, practices, and influences of religions, including at least one indigenous to the Americas
Search > Electromagnetic
activity - Search for Electromagnetic, and review an article from each category of Magazine, News, Biographies, and Books. Extend with inquiry of how to make stronger versions than created in the provided experiment.
Qualities of Text Sources
Comprehend and connect: Recognize and appreciate how different forms, structures, and features of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
Strategies and processes: Metacognitive strategies
Creative Thinking
I build on others' ideas and add new ideas of my own, or combine other people's ideas in new ways to create new things or solve straightforward problems. & I deliberately learn a lot about something (e.g., by doing research, talking to others or practising) so that I am able to generate new ideas or ideas just pop into my head.
Search > Electromagnetic
activity - Search for Electromagnetic, and review an article from each category of Magazine, News, Biographies, and Books. Extend with inquiry of how to make stronger versions than created in the provided experiment.
Electricity and Magnetism
Evaluating: Identify possible sources of error and suggest improvements to their investigation methods
Electricity - generated in different ways with different environmental impacts & Electricity - used to generate magnetism
Choose Databases to include Middle Search Plus > Search > ' JN "Scholastic Math" AND' and other related terms such as quadrants
activity - Using the Search within Publication feature using JN " ", identify articles that connect with current mathematical lessons, such as Transformations using this article: Tracking Space Trash.
Math Snipits
Explore, apply, and connect concepts to each other, to other disciplines, and to the real world
Combinations of transformations, including points in four quadrants
Choose Databases to include Middle Search Plus > Publications (Top left menu bar) > Middle Search Plus > JN "Bonjour"
activity - Students select an article of interest to read. In pairs share their likes, dislikes, preferences based on what they have read. (See also Mary Glasglow links for articles read aloud).
Reading with Purpose
Understand increasingly complex key information and supporting detail in slow, clear speech and simple texts
Vocabulary and structures to express reasons for likes, dislikes, and preferences
Search > Health
activity - Review article, rewrite as a class to incorporate more areas including anxiety and depression.
Being Healthy
Identify factors that influence healthy choices and explain their potential health effects
Signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression
Search > Storytelling
activity - Review several articles and ask critical questions of the source, impact and perspectives. Discuss language tools (ie: metaphor or personification) as used to tell stories. Compare and contrast local or personal stories to the features and examples of storytelling researched. Students develop a story (based on personal experience) to share orally.
Storytelling
Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples' perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
Language features, structures, and conventions: features of oral language
Search > Art Therapy > Choose first result
activity - Investigate how art therapy can help those with mental and physical disabilities improve their lives.
Mental Health
Research how art therapy is used to help those with mental or physical difficulties improve their quality of life
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through arts activities and experiences
Search > Depression and Anxiety
activity - Research the symptoms and causes of depression and anxiety in their society and find some ways of decreasing their occurrence in the student population of their school.
Mental Health
Recognize the signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression in themselves and others. Find ways to alleviate the symptoms
Communicate their understanding of personal awareness and responsibility
Search > Radio Waves
activity - Students investigate the news and biographies related to radio waves. Bring the new knowledge to the conversation of transmitting energy through waves or particles.
Radio Waves
Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
Types and effects of electromagnetic radiation
Advanced Search > Set Lexile > Search > 3D printing
activity - Students review 3D printing articles and relate to 3D graphing. What equations are used for 3D printers' movements?
3D Modeling
Communicating and representing: Communicate in a variety of ways to explain, clarify, and justify mathematical ideas
Construction, views, and nets of 3D objects
Publications > JN "Chez Nous" > Choose two articles
activity - In partners, students choose to read two articles. Each student retells one story while the other checks the text and supports with additional details.
Retelling Stories
Gain a different perspective through understanding and retelling of stories
Common elements of stories
Change database to limit in EBSCOHost to only - European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
activity - Search for topics such as colonialism, imperialism, world, and discovery within the specific database to provide time perspectives.
The New World
Explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, and events by considering prevailing norms, values, worldviews, and beliefs (perspective)
Exploration, expansion, and colonization
Topics > Current Events
activity - Search for a current event such as "Water Rights", and review an article from each category of Magazine, News, Biographies, Primary Source, and Books. Develop a summary that highlights a variety of perspectives on the topic.
Pulling Multiple Sources Together
Comprehend and connect: Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
Strategies and processes: Metacognitive strategies
Power Search > Topic Finder > Search > Industrial Revolution
activity - Explore "Industrial Revolution" of specific keywords through the 'Topic Finder' to narrow down themes related to a specific 'revolution'. The students then present their findings in small groups made up of different revolutions with the task of identifying how they became the catalyst to change in a society.
Industrial Revolution
Make reasoned ethical judgments about controversial actions in the past and present, and whether we have a responsibility to respond (ethical judgment)
Political, social, economic, and technological revolutions
Search > Conflict Resolution
activity - Have the students read through the article and summarize the evolution of a conflict and the steps on how to resolve it. In groups the students then develop skits acting out their conflict and its resolution through the knowledge they have gained.
Conflict Resolution
Healthy relationships can help us lead rewarding and fulfilling lives
Influences of physical, emotional, and social changes on identities and relationships
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
I can take some responsibility for my physical and emotional well-being.
Search > Atoms and Atomic Theory
activity - From the material develop a timeline of the evolution of our understanding of the atom based on the models and empirical data. Relate the effect of this knowledge on society through ethical discussions.
Developing Atomic Knowledge
Evaluating: Evaluate the validity of and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled
An element's properties are related to the arrangement and energy of its electrons and to its atomic size
Publications > JN "Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School"
activity - Teacher Resource - Review monthly publication for integration with timely outside world connections to curriculum areas.
Applying Mathematics
Explore, apply, and connect concepts to each other, to other disciplines, and to the real world
Numerical and spatial reasoning, logic, and patterns to solve puzzles and games
Publications > JN "Ca Va?"
activity - Choose articles of interest to read from the back issues of the magazine Ca Va and look for patterns in the different ways that tenses are used in the article. Organize these patterns into a table and give at least one example.
Reading for Pleasure
Use a growing variety of strategies to construct meaning
Elements of a variety of common texts, common elements of stories, past, present, and future timeframes
Search name of Canadian artists such as "Group of Seven"
activity - The students research the societal influences of an artists and the effect of these influences on their art. The students then use these influences to create a work of art of their own.
Influence of Society on Art
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through artistic experiences
Personal and social responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, and responding to visual art
Power Search > Topic Finder > Search for a topic
activity - Using Topic Finder narrow down a search by refining keywords. Review articles from different sources for bias and manipulation.
Evaluating Information
Comprehend and Connect: Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate its relevance, accuracy, and reliability
Text features and structures: bias and manipulation
Search > Alexis Rockman > "There's Science to His Art"
activity - Have the students read the interview with Alexis Rockman to learn how he incorporated science in his art.
Science and Art
Apply knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating, interpreting, and analyzing artistic creations
The influence and interconnectedness of the Arts with social, cultural, historical, and political movements
Search > 'Canada AND injustice' or 'Canada AND oppression'
activity - Explore issues from several sources. Report back to class with a focus of comparing the topic over the years. Categorize the accuracy and reliability of the source types (news, reference, academic), then compare to personal and familiar historical accounts (highlighting bias, half-truths, perspective).
Global View of Canada
Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups during this time period (continuity and change)
Discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and internments
Search > Thermal Energy (or similar)
activity - Delve deeply into an aspect of energy that is of personal interest. Students become experts on a topic to be shared after a long term research opportunity.
Energy
Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
Energy: the law of conservation of energy, potential energy and kinetic energy, thermal energy, energy transformations, energy production, energy use, and the impacts of energy use in the local area, Aboriginal perspectives on energy
Search > Depression in Adolescents then Refine Results > Source Type > Academic Journals
activity - Review articles on well-being, such as depression, and create a public service announcement through poster or video.
Community Well-being
Social and Community Health: Create strategies for promoting the health and well-being of the school and community
Signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression
Publications > Masterfile Premier > "Mathematics Teacher" > Search within Publication > Search "AND trigonometric"
activity - Teacher Resource: Review 42 articles on "trigonometric" to bring in outside world examples of the application of trigonometric ratios
Mathematical Discussions
Communicating and Representing: Use mathematical vocabulary and language to contribute to mathematical discussions
Primary trigonometric ratios
Choose Databases to include Middle Search Plus > Publications > Middle Search Plus > Search > Que Tal
activity - Reading for information in Spanish.
Reading for Information
Select, process, and adapt information required to complete a specific task
Application: interpret main ideas and details to support task, prioritize, and compare information
Advanced Search > Choose Database (Canadian Reference Centre) > Select Language French Only > Francophone Society
activity - Research a topic relevant to this or another subject but using solely articles 'en francais'.
Searching in French
Locate and explore a variety of online media in French
Contributions of Francophone Canadians to society
Search > "Muscles Sport"
activity - In groups of two, students research a group of muscles and associated sports injuries. They then present their findings to the class.
Muscles
Human anatomy and physiology: Identify and describe how muscles produce movement in different parts of the body and how to train those muscles
Muscular system
Search > Climate Change
activity - Explore a global topic that targets resources from many countries and world views.
Perspectives
Comprehend and Connect: Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Language features, structures, and conventions: persuasive techniques
Search > Suspended ceilings
activity - Have the students read the article on how to install a suspended ceiling. Have them choose a space in the school and draw up a plan on how to install the celling, including a scale diagram.
Math and Home Improvement
Communicating and Representing: Communicate mathematical thinking in many ways
3D objects (views and scale diagrams)
Search > "Probability and Statistics"
activity - Review Topic Overview provided. Identify applications of probability and statistics within scientific environments. Develop a model or method of sharing the numbers through concrete, pictorial, or symbolic means.
Probability and Statistics
Communicating and Representing: Represent mathematical ideas in a variety of ways
Applications of probabilities and statistics in the real world
Search > Tofino and Clayoquot
activity - Students review the timeline, then in groups read specific chapters. Larger groups (ensuring all chapters are covered) connect to discuss the change in use and perspective of the location. Extend by exploring the roles and perspectives of the Aboriginals, Explorers, Europeans, Settlers, Chinese, Japanese, Colonization, Catholics, Canadian interests.
Tofino and Clayoquot
Make reasoned ethical judgements about controversial actions in the past or present, and determine whether we have a responsibility to respond (geographical value judgements)
Relationships between cultural traits, the use of physical space, and impacts on the environment, including First Peoples' cultures
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
I can explain what my values are and how they affect choices I make. &I can tell how some important aspects of my life have influenced my values.
Choose Databases to include Middle Search Plus > Publications > Middle Search Plus > Search Ahora
activity - Students work in groups to read and then paraphrase an article in a series of cartoon panels or illustrations. Students focus on highlighting evidence that they are able to identify main events, include accurate supporting detail, and create logical sequences.
Reading for Information
Demonstrate in a variety of visual, oral, and written forms an understanding of the main ideas and significant details in the information
Summarization/presentation: organize information to explore a topic, e.g., popular media, impact of technology, currency
Choose Databases to include Canadian Reference Centre > Publications*(Top left menu) > Choose Canadian Reference Centre database > Search for "L'Actualite", "Decormag", "Coup de Pouce" or "Elle"
activity - Using the database search for the French language magazine "Decormag" have the students find articles that contain keywords supplied by the teacher and that are of interest to the students.
Authentic French Texts
Locate and explore a variety of authentic texts in French
A range of increasingly complex vocabulary and sentence structures for conveying meaning; describing a diverse range of personal lifestyles and relationships that shape our society
Search > Artistic movements
activity - Students choose a movement in Art that resonates with them. They research the society and culture of the time to gain a better understanding of the influences the movement had on the artists from that movement.
Art and Society
Explore and engage in the reciprocal relationship between the visual arts, cultures, and society
Contributions of innovative visual artists from a variety of movements, contexts, time periods, and cultures
Search > Potential and Kinetic Energy Experiments
activity - Have the students work through experiment 2: "Using Energy: Building a roller coaster".
Garden Hose Roller Coaster
Processing and analyzing data and information ; Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence
1D Momentum: law of conservation of momentum
Search > Atomic models
activity - Using the article, have the student build a timeline that shows how our models of atomic structure have changed as we have gained knowledge on the atomic building blocks and the properties of the atoms.
Science in a Historical Context
Evaluate the validity and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled
Atoms and molecules: model of the atom; the subatomic structure of atoms, ions and isotopes; quantum mechanical model
Search > Respiration
activity - As preparation for learning about respiration in classroom activities, students explore articles on respiration relating to several species.
Respiration
Questioning and Predicting: Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world
Cells are the basic unit of life: cellular respiration and photosynthesis
Search > Coloni* Canada (* as wildcard for colonial, colonization, colonized etc.)
activity - Students review the material on the impact on Canada from Colonialism and the purpose of residential schools as a tool to colonize. Add to the conversation the local historical impacts of colonization.
Colonialism
Assess and compare the significance of interconnections between people, places, events, and developments at a particular time and place, and determine what they reveal about issues in the past and present (significance)
Resilience and survival of indigenous peoples in the face of colonialism
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
"I understand that my identity is made up of many interconnected aspects (such as life experiences, family history, heritage, peer groups)"
Topic Finder > Climate change
activity - Students explore a self-directed topic of interest such as climate change.
Interconnected Global Systems
Processing and Analyzing Data and Information: Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence
Global warming and climate change: impacts on society, mitigation, and personal choices
Search > Calculus
activity - Before starting the unit on limits the students research how calculus is used in society.
Calculus and Society
Communicating and Representing: Explain and justify mathematical ideas
Applications of derivatives
Search > Observing chemical reactions
activity - Students research the way technology has advanced how we study chemical reactions, including slow-motion cameras, lasers, infrared spectroscopy.
Technology and Chemistry
Evaluating: Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed
Reaction kinetics: reaction mechanism
Search > Music's impact on the brain
activity - Have the students find ways in which music impacts how we think and feel. Have them think of ways the music they are learning can help other community members.
Music and the Brain
Reflect on the music-making process and make connections to learning and experiences
The role of performers and audiences in a variety of contexts
Search > Francophone issues
activity - Students search for French language articles that relate the Francophone culture in Canada and around the world to local and global issues.
Francophone Culture
Locate and explore a variety of authentic texts in French
Register and language etiquette
Search > Game Theory
activity - Students use the World Book to research "game theory" and how it is used in society to make informed decisions.
Game Theory
Reasoning and analyzing: Use tools or technology to analyze relationships and test conjectures
Odds, probability, and expected value
Search > Political Parties
activity - Students read and review various forms of writing and the structures they use to shape their message or meaning.
Language and Form Shape Meaning
Comprehend and Connect: Evaluate how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact
Strategies and processes: metacognitive strategies
Search > Learn To Identify Cats
activity - After reading or listening to the NPR report "A Massive Google Network Learns To Identify 'Cats'" have the students use the ideas of set theory and conditional statements to develop a system of identifying cats or dogs.
Machine Learning
Develop, demonstrate, and apply conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas
Set theory and conditional statements
Search > Gravity Assist
activity - Students research the way that spacecraft are sent to other planets through the gravity assist method.
Gravity Assist
Evaluating: Consider the changes in knowledge over time as tools and technologies have developed
Circular motion and gravitation: law of conservation of energy applications - gravitational potential energy
Choose Databases to include Primary Search > Publications > Primary Search > Search "Jack and Jill"
activity - Students choose from the 95 'Health' magazines available to develop a personal top 3 list of healthy choices with the greatest impact on their future.
Healthy Choices
Identify and describe the relationship between healthy eating, overall health and performance in fitness activities
Sources of health information, including professional documents, health and fitness magazines, and advertisements