Info about the units this term

7th Grade Units in the Beginning of the Autumn Term

Subject Group

Subject + Name and statement of inquiry of the 1st unit +Content shortly

Language and Literature

Finnish and literature

Tekstitaituriksi - Asiallinen ja selkeä kommunikointi sekä itsensä ilmaisu kirjoittamalla ovat tärkeitä taitoja elämässä – opi tekstitaituriksi! 

• Kielenhuoltoa: alkukirjaimet, yhdyssanat, välimerkit

• Puhe- ja kirjakielen erot  

• Tarinan kirjoittamisen vaiheet ja oman tarinan kirjoittaminen  

• Vuorovaikutustilanteissa toimimisen harjoittelua

• Romaanin lukeminen 

Finnish as a second language and literature

Tekstitaituriksi - Asiallinen ja selkeä kommunikointi sekä itsensä ilmaisu kirjoittamalla ovat tärkeitä taitoja elämässä – opi tekstitaituriksi! 

• Kielenhuoltoa: alkukirjaimet, yhdyssanat, välimerkit

• Puhe- ja kirjakielen erot  

• Tarinan kirjoittamisen vaiheet ja oman tarinan kirjoittaminen  

• Vuorovaikutustilanteissa toimimisen harjoittelua

• Kaunokirjallisen tekstin lukeminen

Language Acquisition

English

Happiness and fulfillment - Texts about identities often share common themes, but writers use their creativity to give their texts different purposes.

• We practice both formative and summative reading, listening, writing and speaking skills in the following inquiries:

Swedish

Våra favoriter – our favourites

When we are able communicate our thoughts clearly, we manage to tell about our own identity to others 

• In the unit the 7th graders are revising things studied in the 6th grade, (vocabulary, numbers, question words, numbers,  personal pronouns etc.) get to play games and learn know each other and practice telling about their favourite things

French

“Shopping” -shopping for clothes 

• Practising how to express yourself when shopping for clothes; clothes, adjectives, demonstrative pronouns, reviewing present tense

Spanish

“El rancho” 

• Practising how to express yourself when shopping for clothes; clothes, adjectives, demonstrative pronouns, reviewing present tense

Individuals and Societies 

History

Rebuilding Europe and Finland

• French Revolution, Napoleon’s Europe, nationalism and new countries in Europe 

• Finland becomes a part of Russia – War of Finland 

• Helsinki – the new capital

Health education

Physical activity can affect health, communication with others, development, creativity, and identity

7B starts Health in November

7D starts Health Education in October

• Components of Fitness

• Training fitness in the immediate environment

Ev.luth. religion

World religions and world views 

Ethics

World religions and world views 

Islam

World religions and world views 

Science

Physics

Stars, space and the Universe 

System of measuring units and measurements were born from requirements of everyday life and enabled the development of science and technology.

•  Stars and galaxies

• The solar system

• The atom

• Measuring

• The SI-system

Chemistry

Chemistry around us

The system of separating mixtures is important for supplying clean water. 

• Working in the lab, safety

• Atom, element, molecule, compound

• Pure substances and mixtures

• Separation methods: sedimentation, filtration, distillation, evaporation

Geography

Not during the autumn term.

Biology

Water ecosystem 

• Circulation of water, producers, consumers, decomposers, photosynthesis, circulation of nutrients 

Mathematics

Mathematics

Everyday Math
Simple calculations are used everywhere and by everyone. Logic is the key in presenting and simplifying everyday calculations.

• Basic concepts and basic operations with rational numbers 

Design

Home Economics

Working in a kitchen
Learning to work safely and hygienically in a kitchen
Nutrition recomendations
Sustainable living 

• Using stoves, ovens, kitchen tools, using knives

• Cooking, baking

• Food pyramid, plate model

• Sustainable living

Crafts and design

https://sites.google.com/view/design-and-craft/design-and-craft

Textiles:

T-Shirt: Systems, function and form

Function and aesthetics are equal important perspectives in clothes design.  Clothes making process contains sequence of steps and need to carry out in certain structure or system.

•  Complete craft process

• Design Cycle

• Clothes designing and production

• Measurements, patterns and pattern adjustments

• Tools and machines in sewing

Techical work:

Experimenting metal work and

Product design: Personal hanger

Development, Function and Creativity

Learning and experimenting new techniques can  give more tools for creativity and help designing new solutions.

• Complete craft process

• Design Cycle

• Product design

• Metalwork, techniques and materials

• Woodwork 

Arts

Music

Music belongs to everyone!

Practicing music in a group produces two kinds of change: Change in the individual and change in the group. 

• You will deepen instrument skills; keyboards, drums, guitar, bass, ukulele, mallets. You will deepen your own skills and practice your music-making skills in a group. If you want, you can also practice your singing skills with a microphone.

• You practice regularly and understand how it affects your learning 

• You learn to read music: sheet music, symbols, rhythms, chord tables, tablature, drum score

Visual Arts

SEPTEMBER

 World Press Photo –2023 exhibition: the best of photojournalism

 Unit of Freehand Drawing

 Freehand drawing improves motorics, focusing and sketching techniques.

 “How do I create illusion of light/shadow, form and texture ?”

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER

Unit of Graphic Design: (PEACE )POSTER

Art Poster communicates with the viewer !

“ How do I plan and create effective art poster?

What is graphic design ?

We do not participate 2023 in Lions International Peace Poster contest

“ NN “ 

• Thinking skills:

• Critical thinking

• Creative thinking

• Training creative process:

• Study/ Research, plan, test, create, document, process description, self-assessment

  • Greyscale, shading, texture in drawing

  • Different softness/hardness in pencils/ graphite

  • Freechosen technique in the (peace)poster

  • Repetition of cromatics

  • Mixed media techniques

Physical and Health Education

P.E.

The ability to swim is a basic physical activity skill and it is strongly related to Finnish identity and culture.

• Responsible and independent working

• Locomotor skills: Swimming: moving in/on the water and strengthening swimming skills

9th Grade Units in the Beginning of the Autumn Term

Subject Group

Subject + Name and statement of inquiry of the 1st unit of the term + Content shortly

Language and Literature

Finnish and literature

Kieli kuntoon         
Tekstitaidot ovat tärkeitä nykymaailmassa

• Tutustutaan oppisisältöihin ja pohditaan omia tavoitteita, kielenhuollon kertausta ja uusia asioita, lauseenvastikkeet, luetaan yhteinen romaani. 

Finnish as a second language and literature

Kieli kuntoon
Tekstitaidot ovat tärkeitä nykymaailmassa

• Tutustutaan oppisisältöihin ja pohditaan omia tavoitteita, kielenhuollon kertausta ja uusia asioita, lauseenvastikkeet, luetaan yhteinen romaani tai novelli. 

Language Acquisition

English

Life on Mars - Writers use their creativity and biases to influence people’s points of view about innovation.  

• We complete both formative and summative reading, listening, speaking and writing activities in the three inquiries of this unit:

  • Inquiry 1: What is the connection between space exploration and human creativity? 

  • Inquiry 2: How does the point of view of the writer influence our ideas about space travel? 

  • Inquiry 3: How can we detect bias in a text? 

Swedish

Våra nordiska grannländer - Our Nordic neighbours

Living in a Nordic country is a part of our identity

• In this unit the 9th grade B1- group will take a look at the Nordic countries, their culture, similarities and differences. Of the grammatical structures we will focus on word order in a dependent clause (=subordinate clauses, relative clauses) and learn the man-structure 

French

“Qui suis-je?” - telling about yourself

• Asking and telling basic information about yourself; different types of questions, question words,  agreement on adjectives and comparison, past tense, some countries and nationalities.

Spanish

“En clase de economía del hogar” 

• Estrellas characters are in home economics and discuss free time, hobbies, school schedules and new school subjects and their schedules.  Language objectives: possessive forms, times of day, ir + a + infinitive forms, acabar + infinitive, regular perfect tense forms 

Individuals and Societies

Civics

Finland - a welfare state

• Individuals and communities

•  Welfare of children, families, and senior citizens 

• Minorities 

• Social Security in Finland

Health education

Data visualization can be an effective way to communicate

• Water rescue together with PE, action in emergengy situation, lifesaving first aid, common everyday accidents’ first aid.

• Data visualization 

Ethics

Ethics is pondering right and wrong 

• Concepts, theories, and praxis

Ev.luth. religion

Bible is a global influence of art and culture 

• Knowing the central Bible stories and genres helps us understand Western culture. 

Islam

Ethics is pondering right and wrong 

• Concepts, theories, and praxis

Student counselling

Work Experience and further education

• Working life skills and further studies in Finnish educational system. 

Science

Chemistry

Metals
Metals have an important and unique role in modern society, building infrastructure and in the advancement of technology.

• Rocks, minerals and ores

• Extraction of metals

• Physical and chemical properties of metals

• Metallic bonding, alloys

• Oxidation, reduction

• Galvanic series and reactivity series

• Electrochemical cell, electrolysis
  
  

Physics

Newtonian mechanics
Observing changes in movement allows scientists to detect and understand the transformation of energy 

• Uniform motion

• Accelerated motion

• Interaction

• Newton’s laws

Geography

Not during the autumn term.   

Biology

Cell, organ transplantations

• Cell organs and their function, the ethics of organ transplantations, stem cells 

Mathematics

Mathematics

Functions

Being able to represent the relationships between values using functions helps us to interpret data and express and predict changes.

• The graphs of linear functions, drawing straight lines, modelling linear functions, parabolas 

Design

Home Economics

International kitchen -  

• Cooking meals from different countries

Craft and design

More info from the teachers

Arts

Visual Arts

Unit of Photography  - Photography rules !

 “ How do I express myself in the medium of photography ? “ 

• World Press Photo 2023 - The Best of Photojournalism

• Camerawork ( mobile- and compact camera)

  • Basics of photomanipulation

  • Photo analysis

• Thinking skills: Creative thinking, critical thinking

• Self-management- organization skills

• Repeating the  creative process:

  • Study/ Research, plan, test, create, document, process description, self –assessment

Music

More info from the teacher

Physical and Health education

P.E.

Developing life-saving skills will enhance one’s ability to function correctly in a real-life situation in changing environment

• Practicing different life-saving skills in a swimming pool and completing a life-saving performance