Career Education 4 / 5 Big Ideas
Public identity is influenced by personal choices and decisions.
Exploring our strengths and abilities can help us identify our goals.
Leadership requires listening to and respecting the ideas of others.
Family and community relationships can be a source of support and guidance when solving problems and making decisions.
Good learning and work habits contribute to short- and long-term personal and career success.
Language Arts 4/5 Big Ideas
Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy.
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.
Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works.
Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Mathematics 4 Big Ideas
Fractions and decimals are types of numbers that can represent quantities.
Development of computational fluency and multiplicative thinking requires analysis of patterns and relations in multiplication and division.
Regular changes in patterns can be identified and represented using tools and tables.
Polygons are closed shapes with similar attributes that can be described, measured, and compared.
Analyzing and interpreting experiments in data probability develops an understanding of chance.
Mathematics 5 Big Ideas
Numbers describe quantities that can be represented by equivalent fractions.
Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with larger (multi-digit) numbers.
Identified regularities in number patterns can be expressed in tables.
Closed shapes have area and perimeter that can be described, measured, and compared.
Data represented in graphs can be used to show many-to-one correspondence.
Social Studies 4/ 5 Big Ideas
The pursuit of valuable natural resources has played a key role in changing the land, people, and communities of Canada.
Interactions between First Peoples and Europeans lead to conflict and cooperation, which continues to shape Canada’s identity.
Demographic changes in North America created shifts in economic and political power.
British Columbia followed a unique path in becoming a part of Canada.
Canada’s policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.
Natural resources continue to shape the economy and identity of different regions of Canada.
Immigration and multiculturalism continue to shape Canadian society and identity.
Canadian institutions and government reflect the challenge of our regional diversity.
Science 4 /5 Big Ideas
All living things sense and respond to their environment.
Matter has mass, takes up space, and can change phase.
Energy can be transformed.
The motions of Earth and the moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems.
Multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact within their environment.
Solutions are homogeneous.
Machines are devices that transfer force and energy.
Earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle and can be used as natural resources.
Applied Design, Skill and Technology 4 /5 Big Ideas
Designs can be improved with prototyping and testing.
Skills are developed through practice, effort, and action.
The choice of technology and tools depends on the task.
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Physical and Health Education 4 / 5 Big Ideas
Daily physical activity enables us to practice skillful movement and helps us develop personal fitness.
Knowing what we enjoy doing and knowing about our opportunities to participate in those activities helps us develop an active lifestyle
Understanding ourselves and the various aspects of health helps us develop a balanced lifestyle.
Personal choices and social and environmental factors influence our health and well-being.
Developing healthy relationships helps us feel connected, supported, and valued.
Art Education 4 / 5 Big Ideas
Creative expression is a means to explore and share one’s identity within a community.
Artists experiment in a variety of ways to discover new possibilities.
Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.
Exploring works of art exposes us to diverse values, knowledge, and perspectives.