Integrated Studies

Science Inquiry: UN Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Curriculum Connections:

BIG IDEA

  • All living things sense and respond to their environment

Curricular Competencies:

  • Demonstrates Curiosity
  • Identify questions about familiar objects and events that can be investigated scientifically
  • Make observations about living and nonliving things in the local environment
  • Experience and interpret the local environment
  • Suggest ways to plan and conduct an inquiry to find answers to their questions

ADST

  • Designing, Ideating, Prototyping, Making, and Sharing

English Language Arts

  • Access information and ideas from a variety of sources and from prior knowledge to build understanding
  • Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
  • Apply a variety of thinking skills to gain meaning from texts

Social Studies

  • Use inquiry processes and skills to ask questions, gather, interpret, and analyze ideas, and communicate findings and decisions
  • Ask questions and draw conclusions about the content and origins of different sources


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Driving Question:

How does learning about one person's story give us an idea about the impact of residential school on people in Canade?


Learning Intentions:

  • I can thinking critically, make meaningful connections, and make inferences from images.
  • I can connect and engage with others to share and develop ideas.

Curriculum Connections:

Social Studies:

  • Grade 4 --> First Peoples and European Contact: the history of the local community and of local First Peoples communities
  • Grade 5 --> Canadian Issues and Governance: past discriminatory government policies and actions, such as residential school
        • human rights and responses to discrimination in Canadian society

English Language Arts

  • Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
  • Texts can be understood from different perspectives.

Arts Education - Visual Arts

  • Explore identity, place, culture and belonging through visual arts elements and principles.

First Peoples Principles of Learning

  • Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story

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