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Language features, structures, and conventions: phonemic and phonological awareness
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Read > Know It! > Classics
activity - Explore stories and how cultures have used them to tell stories (sometimes with a moral or intended learning). Students then share personal stories, or retell stories they have been told.
lesson topic
Exploring Read Aloud Texts and Media Features
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Use play and other creative means to discover foundational concepts of print, oral, and visual texts
first peoples' principle in learning
Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story.
aboriginal worldviews and perspectives
The Power of Story
core competency
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World Book
activity - http://worldbookonline.com/ewol/home#knowItcategory/11/knowit
lesson topic
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
curricular competency
Students are expected to know the following:
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Know It! > Weather > Changing Seasons
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Read > Welcome to Reading > Level D > Working it out
activity - Read Working it Out and see additional images/videos on bottom.
lesson topic
Solving Problems Peacefully
curricular competency
Acknowledge different perspectives on people, places, issues, and events in their lives (perspective)
content
Needs and wants of individuals and families
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Read > Welcome to Reading > Level A > Seasons
activity - Read Seasons and see additional images at bottom - Compare printed season information with personal experience.
lesson topic
Comparing Book Knowledge to Personal Knowledge
curricular competency
Questioning and predicting: demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
content
Weather changes, seasonal changes
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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.
lesson topic
Explore a Variety of Songs and Rhymes
curricular competency
Explore artistic expressions of themselves and community through creative processes
content
Students are expected to know the following elements in the arts including music: beat/pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitch, dynamics
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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.
lesson topic
Learning About Body Parts and Functions
curricular competency
Describe the body's reaction to participating in physical activity in a variety of environments
content
Names for parts of the body, including male and female private parts' names
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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)
lesson topic
Exploring Attributes of Objects in Our World
curricular competency
Connecting and reflecting: Connect mathematical concepts to each other and make mathematical connections to the real world
content
Single attributes of 2D shapes and 3D objects
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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.
lesson topic
Learning About Stories
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Recognize the structure and elements of story
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Story/text: Elements of story
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Watch > Health
activity - Watch several videos on aspects of health. Students share how they act and stay healthy in their family.
lesson topic
Well-being
curricular competency
Mental well-being: Identify and describe practices that promote mental well-being
content
Caring behaviours in groups and families
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Classics > Nursery Rhymes and Songs
activity - Students explore nursery rhymes and develop actions for one to share with the class.
lesson topic
Nursery Rhymes: Playing with Language, Rhythm, and Rhyme
curricular competency
Communicating and documenting: Experience, document, perform, and share creative works in a variety of ways
content
Elements in the arts, including but not limited to: dance, body, space, dynamics, time, relationships
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Creative Thinking
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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.
big idea
Addition and subtraction with numbers to 10 can be modelled concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to develop computational fluency.
Know It! > People at work > Mail Carrier
activity - Read several "Trek Learns About …, " then go outside to have drawing time. Students will share their drawings, identifying size, colour, number, and shape.
lesson topic
Our Community Mail Carrier and Buying Stamps
curricular competency
Connect mathematical concepts to each other and make mathematical connections to the real world
content
Financial literacy: Values of coins and monetary exchanges."Money is a medium of exchange"
first peoples' principle in learning
Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational.
aboriginal worldviews and perspectives
Engagement with the Land, Nature, and the Outdoors
core competency
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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.
lesson topic
Learning Descriptions for Properties
curricular competency
Planning and conducting: Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions
content
Specific properties of materials connected to the function of the materials
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Healthy communities recognize and respect the diversity of individuals and care for the local environment.
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.
lesson topic
People in Our Community
curricular competency
Explore different perspectives on people, places, issues, and events in their lives (perspective)
content
Characteristics of the local community that provide organization and meet the needs of the community
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Know It > (Class Topic)
activity - Teacher leads class in exploration of a topic and related images, videos and stories. Discussion focuses on what kinds and sources of information you can find online.
lesson topic
What can we learn from an encyclopedia?
curricular competency
Explore the use of simple, available tools and technologies to extend their capabilities
content
(ADST Curricular Competencies K - 3 are in combination with cross-curricular grade-level content)
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Critical Thinking
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I can explore materials and actions.
big idea
Daily participation in physical activity at moderate to vigorous intensity levels benefits all aspects of our well-being.
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.
lesson topic
What's Your Breathing Rate?
curricular competency
Apply methods of monitoring exertion levels in physical activity
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Ways to monitor physical exertion levels
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Kids > Games > Puzzles and Quizzes
activity - Explore the information on sea animals, discuss, and connect to knowledge of other water animals. Extend to animals in local ecosystems (such as salmon, skeeters, beavers, and frogs) and include family experiences with time on, in, or near water.
lesson topic
Water is a Limited Resource
curricular competency
Processing and analyzing data and information: Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
content
Water is a limited resource
first peoples' principle in learning
Learning recognizes the role of indigenous knowledge.
aboriginal worldviews and perspectives
Connectedness and Relationship
core competency
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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.
lesson topic
Counting, Sequencing, One to One Correspondence with Numbers and Objects
curricular competency
Develop, construct, and apply mathematical understanding through role play, inquiry, and problem solving
content
Change in quantity using pictorial and symbolic representation
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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.
lesson topic
Reading Classics and Role Playing Characters in Stories
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Use age-appropriate reading, listening, and viewing behaviours and strategies to make meaning from texts
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Strategies and processes: Reading strategies, oral language strategies, metacognitive strategies, writing processes
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Read > Welcome to Reading > Level D > Lending a Hand
activity - Review several stories in Level D. Share ways people help each other.
lesson topic
Exploring Stories About People
curricular competency
Explain why people's beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences, and roles give them different perspectives on people, places, issues, and events (perspective)
content
How people's needs and wants are met in communities
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Communication
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I can understand and share information about a topic that is important to me.
big idea
Learning about indigenous peoples nurtures multicultural awareness and respect for diversity.
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.
lesson topic
Exploring Culture Events Over Time
curricular competency
Sequence objects, images, and events, and explain why some aspects change and others stay the same (continuity and change)
content
Aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and cultures
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Social Responsibility
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I can participate in classroom and group activities to improve the classroom, school, community, or natural world.
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.).
lesson topic
Design an Experiment Considering Probable Outcomes
curricular competency
Reasoning and analyzing: Develop mental math strategies and abilities to make sense of quantities
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Measurement, using standard units (linear, mass, and capacity)
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Ecosystems > Ecology > Food Chains and Webs
activity - Explore the unit together to consider the diversity of life. Extend to biodiversity within the classroom, school yard, community, and beyond. Students choose one activity they can undertake to improve the school or school grounds over the next week.
lesson topic
Ecoystems
curricular competency
Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate curiosity about the natural world
content
Energy needed for life
first peoples' principle in learning
Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational.
aboriginal worldviews and perspectives
Engagement with the Land, Nature, and the Outdoors
core competency
Social Responsibility
I statements
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.
lesson topic
Explore Arts in Cultures
curricular competency
Exploring and creating: Explore relationships among cultures, communities, and the arts
content
A variety of local works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places
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Search > Health > More Information
activity - Explore the article, and the More Information section with additional topics, websites, and games.
lesson topic
Learning From Health Connections
curricular competency
Describe ways to access information on and support services for a variety of health topics
content
Strategies for accessing health information
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Analyzing data and chance help us to compare and interpret. Probability experiments develop an understanding of chance.
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.
lesson topic
Comparison
curricular competency
Connect mathematical concepts to each other and make mathematical connections to the real world
content
Number concepts to 10,000
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Matter > States of Matter > Solids Liquids and Gases
activity - Review lesson set for Solids, Liquids, and Gases, then follow instructions for a safe experiment.
lesson topic
Matter
curricular competency
Planning and conducting: Suggest ways to plan and conduct an inquiry to find answers to their questions
content
Solids, liquids, and gases as matter
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Passport to the Internet > Ticket Booth > My Face (or Instant Pigeon)
activity - Explore Web Café, Co-Co's Choco Match, Study Space, MyFace, and Instant Pigeon. These activities allow students to make mistakes in a safe online location. Expand conversations to relationships online, at home, and in the community, including rules and expectations for each kind of relationship.
lesson topic
Healthy Use of the Internet
curricular competency
Describe and assess strategies for responding to discrimination, stereotyping, and bullying. Describe and apply strategies for developing and maintaining positive relationships
content
Strategies for responding to bullying, discrimination, and violence
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Learning involves recognizing the consequences of one’s actions.
aboriginal worldviews and perspectives
Emphasis on Identity
core competency
Personal Awareness
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I can make choices that benefit my well being and keep me safe in my community, including my online interactions.
Explore > Arts
activity - Explore the variety of forms and artistic expressions. Choose one form to demonstrate or describe in small groups.
lesson topic
Survey of Arts
curricular competency
Explore relationships among cultures, societies, and the arts
content
A variety of regional and national works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places
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Exploring text and story helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the 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.
lesson topic
Reading Text, Images, and Video
curricular competency
Identify how differences in context, perspectives, and voice influence meaning in texts
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Language features, structures and conventions: features of oral language, paragraph structure, sentence structure and grammar conventions
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The pursuit of valuable natural resources has played a key role in changing the land, people, and communities of Canada.
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.
lesson topic
Natural Resources
curricular competency
Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, and actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place (ethical judgment)
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The fur trade in pre-Confederation Canada and British Columbia
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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.
lesson topic
Vocabulary Building
curricular competency
Identify key information in slow, clear speech and other simple texts
content
Vocabulary and structures for expressing personal information and simple descriptions
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Earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle and can be used as natural resources.
Earth > Earth Materials and Their Uses
activity - Review the types of resources. Take a nature walk and use new vocabulary in activities. Consider the development of your community and the impact it has on people, communities, provinces, and the country’s natural world and resources.
lesson topic
Natural Resources
curricular competency
Processing and analyzing data and information: Experience and interpret the local environment
content
Aboriginal concept of interconnectedness in the environment
The nature of sustainable practices around BC's living and non-living resources
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Learning involves recognizing consequences of one's actions.
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Awareness of History
core competency
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big idea
Understanding ourselves and the various aspects of health helps us develop a balanced lifestyle.
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.
lesson topic
Digestive, Urinary, and Endocrine Systems
curricular competency
Analyze and describe the connections between eating, physical activity, and mental well-being
content
Food choices to support active lifestyles and overall health
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Multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact within their environment.
Explore Topics > Environment
activity - Explore media related to the environment. Take a nature walk and use new vocabulary in activities.
lesson topic
Environment
curricular competency
Processing and analyzing data and information: Experience and interpret the local environment
content
Aboriginal concept of interconnectedness in the environment
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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.
lesson topic
Immigration
curricular competency
Take stakeholders' perspectives on issues, developments, and events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations
content
The changing nature of Canadian immigration over time
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Critical Thinking
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I can ask open-ended questions and gather information.
big idea
Exploring text and story helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
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.
lesson topic
Exploring Text
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and develop understanding of self, community, and world
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Story/text: Form, function, and genre of texts, features of written text, perspective/point of view
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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.
lesson topic
Money as Value
curricular competency
Use reasoning and logic to explore and make connections
content
Financial literacy monetary calculations, including making change with amounts to 1000 dollars and developing simple financial plans
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Our attitudes toward careers are influenced by our view of ourselves as well as by our friends, family, and community.
Search > (Class Topic)
activity - Brianstorm/ develop topics that have impacted the community over time(residential schools, colonization, agriculture methods, religions). Choose one to use as a class to understand searching techniques. Students choose another from the list to use EBSCOhost (and searching techniques), seek out more information about identified topics. Bring class together to identify contributions to the community over time, and areas with room for new or expanded contributions.
lesson topic
Caring for the Community
curricular competency
Examine the importance of service learning and the responsibility of individuals to contribute to the community and the world
content
Connections to Community: cultural and social awareness and global citizenship
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Social Responsibility
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I can identify how my actions and the actions of others affect my community and the natural environment and can work to make positive change.
How to Do Research
activity - Identify this tool as a resources and explore different aspects of doing research.
lesson topic
Refining Searches in a Database
curricular competency
Demonstrate a willingness to learn new technologies as needed
content
(ADST Curricular Competencies K - 3 are in combination with cross-curricular grade-level content)
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Communication
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I can understand and share information about a topic that is important to me
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Physical literacy and fitness contribute to our success in and enjoyment of physical activity.
Search > Religion
activity - Have students explore three articles on religion. Identify the aspects or categories that each seems to have. Examine personal beliefs and how they impact personal identity. Consider the impact of beliefs from family of origin (even if you don't hold those beliefs personally).
lesson topic
Belief Systems
curricular competency
Assess the significance of people, places, events, and developments at particular times and places (significance)
content
Origins, core beliefs, narratives, practices, and influences of religions, including at least one indigenous to the Americas
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Learning recognizes the role of indigenous knowledge.
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Emphasis on Identity
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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.
lesson topic
Passion-based Reading
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
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Story/text: Form, function, and genre of texts, features of written text, perspective/point of view
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Complex global problems require international cooperation to make difficult choices for the future.
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?
lesson topic
Students Making a Difference
curricular competency
Differentiate between short- and long-term causes, and intended and unintended consequences, of events, decisions, and developments (cause and consequence)
content
International cooperation and responses to global issues
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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.
lesson topic
Explore French Magazine Stories
curricular competency
Employ basic strategies to increase understanding of texts
content
Vocabulary and structures to describe family, pets, friends, and community member, vocabulary and structures related to hobbies and topics of interest
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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.
lesson topic
Heterogenous Mixtures
curricular competency
Planning and conducting: Explore and pose questions that lead to investigations
content
Heterogeneous mixtures
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Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.
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.
lesson topic
Music as Language
curricular competency
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
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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.
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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.
lesson topic
Know Canada
curricular competency
Engage in problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, and cultural practices relevant to the local community
content
Whole number percentages and percentage discounts
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Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Search > Storytelling
activity - Review several articles and ask critical questions of the source, its impact and perspectives. Discuss how language tools such as metaphor or personification are 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.
lesson topic
Storytelling
curricular competency
Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples’ perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
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Language features, structures, and conventions: features of oral language
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Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story.
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The Power of Story
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Religious and cultural practices that emerged during this period have endured and continue to influence people.
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.
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Belief Systems
curricular competency
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
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Origins, core beliefs, narratives, practices, and influences of religions, including at least one indigenous to the Americas
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We can apply mathematics to inquiry questions and use it to communicate information and data.
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.
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Math Snipits
curricular competency
Explore, apply, and connect concepts to each other, to other disciplines, and to the real world
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Combinations of transformations, including points in four quadrants
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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.
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Electricity and Magnetism
curricular competency
Evaluating: Identify possible sources of error and suggest improvements to their investigation methods
content
Electricity - generated in different ways with different environmental impacts & Electricity - used to generate magnetism
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Synthesizing the meaning from different texts and ideas helps us create new understandings.
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.
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Qualities of Text Sources
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Recognize and appreciate how different forms, structures, and features of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
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Strategies and processes: Metacognitive strategies
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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).
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Reading with Purpose
curricular competency
Understand increasingly complex key information and supporting detail in slow, clear speech and simple texts
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Vocabulary and structures to express reasons for likes, dislikes, and preferences
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Physical literacy and fitness contribute to our success in and enjoyment of physical activity.
Search > Health
activity - Review article, rewrite as a class to incorporate more areas including anxiety and depression.
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Being Healthy
curricular competency
Identify factors that influence healthy choices and explain their potential health effects
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Signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression
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Reflecting on our preferences and skills helps us identify the steps we need to take to achieve our career goals.
Login > Who Am I > Surveys
activity - Complete learning style, personality, interests surveys. Explore career and post secondary options suggested.
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Considering Post Secondary Career and/or Education
curricular competency
Recognize the influence of curriculum choices and co-curricular activities on career paths
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Personal Development: reflection
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Personal Awareness and Responsibility
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I can take ownership of my goals, learning, and behaviour
activity - Students first discuss how mobility of technology has affected human-kind. Students then research a specific area of interest to share with the class or small groups.
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Impact of mobile technology
curricular competency
Ideating: Evaluate personal, social, and environmental impacts and ethical considerations
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Social, cultural, and economic impact of mobile devices
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Personal Awareness and Responsibility
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I take the initiative to inform myself about controvercial issues.
big idea
Synthesizing the meaning from differeant texts and ideas helps us create new understandings.
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.
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Pulling Multiple Sources together
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
content
Strategies and processes: metacognitive strategies
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Learning ultimately supports well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors.
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Community Involvement: Process and Protocols
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We can apply mathematics to inquiry questions and use it to communicate information and data.
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?
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3D Modeling
curricular competency
Communicating and representing: Communicate in a variety of ways to explain, clarify, and justify mathematical ideas
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Construction, views, and nets of 3D objects
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Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
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.
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Storytelling
curricular competency
Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples' perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
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Language features, structures, and conventions: features of oral language
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Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.
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.
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The New World
curricular competency
Explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, and events by considering prevailing norms, values, worldviews, and beliefs (perspective)
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Exploration, expansion, and colonization
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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.
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Radio Waves
curricular competency
Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
content
Types and effects of electromagnetic radiation
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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.
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Retelling Stories
curricular competency
Gain a different perspective through understanding and retelling of stories
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Common elements of stories
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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.
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Mental Health
curricular competency
Recognize the signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression in themselves and others. Find ways to alleviate the symptoms
content
Communicate their understanding of personal awareness and responsibility
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Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental contexts in relation to the arts.
Search > Art Therapy > Choose first result
activity - Investigate how art therapy can help those with mental and physical disabilities improve their lives.
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Mental Health
curricular competency
Research how art therapy is used to help those with mental or physical difficulties improve their quality of life
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Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through arts activities and experiences
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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.
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Industrial Revolution
curricular competency
Make reasoned ethical judgments about controversial actions in the past and present, and whether we have a responsibility to respond (ethical judgment)
content
Political, social, economic, and technological revolutions
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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.
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Conflict Resolution
curricular competency
Healthy relationships can help us lead rewarding and fulfilling lives
content
Influences of physical, emotional, and social changes on identities and relationships
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Personal Awareness and Responsibility
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I can take some responsibility for my physical and emotional well-being.
Search >
activity - Brainstorm/develop topics that have impacted the community over time (residential schools, colonization, agricultural methods, religions). Choose one to use as a lesson on searching techniques. Students choose another from the list to use EBSCOhost (and searching techniques), and seek more information about identified topics. Bring the class together to identify contributions to the community over time, and areas with room for new or expanded contributions.
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Caring for the Community
curricular competency
Contributing to community and caring for the environment
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Students develop awareness and take responsibility for their social, physical, and natural environments by working independently and collaboratively for the benefit of others, communities, and the environment
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Learning recognizes the role of indigenous knowledge.
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Experiential Learning
core competency
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I can identify how my actions and the actions of others affect my community and the natural environment and can work to make positive change.
big idea
We can apply mathematics to inquiry questions and use it to communicate information and data.
Publications > JN "Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School"
activity - Teacher Resource - Review monthly publication for integration with timely outside world connections to curriculum areas.
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Applying Mathematics
curricular competency
Explore, apply, and connect concepts to each other, to other disciplines, and to the real world
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Numerical and spatial reasoning, logic, and patterns to solve puzzles and games
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Synthesizing the meaning from different texts and ideas helps us create new understandings.
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.
lesson topic
Pulling Multiple Sources Together
curricular competency
Comprehend and connect: Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
content
Strategies and processes: Metacognitive strategies
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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.
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Developing Atomic Knowledge
curricular competency
Evaluating: Evaluate the validity of and limitations of a model or analogy in relation to the phenomenon modelled
content
An element's properties are related to the arrangement and energy of its electrons and to its atomic size
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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.
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Reading for Pleasure
curricular competency
Use a growing variety of strategies to construct meaning
content
Elements of a variety of common texts, common elements of stories, past, present, and future timeframes
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The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
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.
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Influence of Society on Art
curricular competency
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through artistic experiences
content
Personal and social responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, and responding to visual art
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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.
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Science and Art
curricular competency
Apply knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating, interpreting, and analyzing artistic creations
content
The influence and interconnectedness of the Arts with social, cultural, historical, and political movements
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The exploration of text and story deepens understanding of one's identity, others, and the world.
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.
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Evaluating Information
curricular competency
Comprehend and Connect: Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate its relevance, accuracy, and reliability
content
Text features and structures: bias and manipulation
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World views lead to different perspectives and ideas about developments in Canadian society.
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).
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Global View of Canada
curricular competency
Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups during this time period (continuity and change)
content
Discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and internments
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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.
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Energy
curricular competency
Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
content
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
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Acquiring Information: Retrieve, process, and adapt information from Spanish-language resources to complete meaningful tasks.
Choose Databases to include Middle Search Plus > Publications > Middle Search Plus > Search > Que Tal
activity - Reading for information in Spanish.
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Reading for Information
curricular competency
Select, process, and adapt information required to complete a specific task
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Application: interpret main ideas and details to support task, prioritize, and compare information
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Menu > Career Spectrum Survey
activity - Explore database for passions and interests that have connections to education and careers with Applied Skills Design & Technology.
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Digital Citizenship
curricular competency
Applied Skills: Demonstrate an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures in both physical and digital environments
content
Factors involved in defining the term �family,� including over time
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Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
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I can describe/express my attributes, characteristics, and skills. I can reflect on my strengths and identify my potential as a leader in my community
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
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Mathematical Discussions
curricular competency
Communicating and Representing: Use mathematical vocabulary and language to contribute to mathematical discussions
content
Primary trigonometric ratios
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Understanding the factors that influence our health empowers us to take actions to improve it.
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.
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Community Well-being
curricular competency
Social and Community Health: Create strategies for promoting the health and well-being of the school and community
content
Signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression
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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'.
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Searching in French
curricular competency
Locate and explore a variety of online media in French
content
Contributions of Francophone Canadians to society
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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.
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Reading for Information
curricular competency
Demonstrate in a variety of visual, oral, and written forms an understanding of the main ideas and significant details in the information
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Summarization/presentation: organize information to explore a topic, e.g., popular media, impact of technology, currency
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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.
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Probability and Statistics
curricular competency
Communicating and Representing: Represent mathematical ideas in a variety of ways
content
Applications of probabilities and statistics in the real world
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