Month: <span>September 2020</span>

In a nutshell: an ELA learning plan for grade 6

In a nutshell: an english language arts learning plan (grade 6) Exploring stories through cooking and text creation, a guided inquiry.  Dan Gold, Unsplash.com This is a guided inquiry around how students can communicate their understanding around a chosen story in a nuanced way. This will be demonstrated by showcasing …

Gr. 8 Social Studies Unit Plan – TERFs and Harry Potter

SOCIAL STUDIES UNIT PLAN: TERFs and Harry Potter Katrina, Fran, Tessa, Colin, Laurel, Sam Scenario: Group 6 – Grade 8 students. Students are working on book reports and sharing their work so far in a peer mentoring activity. One student is reviewing Harry Potter and the other calls the author …

Grade 8 – Language Arts – Bullying Prevention Toolkit

Grade 8 – Bullying Prevention Toolkit – Language Arts By the time middle school students are in Grade 8 they have more than likely personally felt the impact of bullying.  It is because of this that I feel like a Language Arts Learning Plan on the kinds of bullying, the …

Pythagorean Theorem- Grade 8 Math Unit Plan

Math Final Unit Plan Group Members: Lauren La Prairie, Laurel Apps, KW   Key concepts: Pythagorean theorem ☀ Coast Salish canoeing routes ☀ Astronomy ☀ Spiralling   Purpose of Unit: Our focus for this unit was to instruct grade 8s on how to use Pythagorean theorem by grounding it in …

Warm-up: Throw-and-Catch Tag

A PHE warm-up activity featuring throwing and catching balls in a game of tag! Lesson idea: The lesson would focus on a team sport, preferably basketball, as it involves throwing and catching a ball. The focus would be on working as a team and movement concepts such as spatial awareness, …

Native Plants – Grade 4/5 Unit Plan

By Connor & Anne Native Plants Grade 4 Unit Plan   Introduction This unit will introduce students to the biodiversity of plants on the south coast of British Columbia. The unit incorporates guided nature walks and observations, class discussions, plant dissections, Indigenous knowledge, scientific drawings, and visual arts. The unit …

Unit Plan: Our Forests (Grade 4)

by: Dane Sweeny & Sioned Seeley-Cavers Introduction This unit will focus on grade 4 curriculum and introduce students to multiple curricular components including, but not limited to; Science, English Language Arts, Social Students, and local Indigenous cultures and their traditional ecological knowledge. The main focus of this unit is to teach …

Grade 6 Space Unit Plan: So… Where are we?

  So… Where are we? Grade 6 Science Unit Plan   Big Idea: The solar system is part of the Milky Way, which is one of billions of galaxies. Curricular Competencies: – Choose appropriate data to collect to answer their questions. – Identify patterns and connections in data. – Demonstrate …