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Why Are Relationships Important? (Essential Questions : The curricular…
Why Are Relationships Important?
Essential Questions :
The curricular implications of...
Relationships with our environment?
Technology
Students will seek alternative viewpoints, using information technologies.
Students will understand the role of technology as it applies to self, work and society.
Assemble and organize different viewpoints in order to assess their validity.
Describe the impact of communication technologies on past, present and future workplaces, lifestyles and the environment.
Art
Students will develop the ability to investigate visual relationships in their recorded images and in the environment.
Students will understand that art reflects and affects cultural character.
Students will investigate natural forms, man-made forms, cultural traditions and social activities as sources of imagery through time and across cultures.
Identify similarities and differences in expressions of selected cultural groups.
Students will identify similarities and differences in expressions of selected cultural groups.
Science
Prior knowledge & Current focus:
Grade 7 Units A & B.
Research is often driven by societal and environmental needs and issues.
The potential of science to inform and empower decision making by individuals, communities and society is a central role of scientific literacy in a democratic society.
Science and technology have contributed to human well-being and have influenced, and been influenced by, social development.
Science and technology have both intended and unintended consequences for humans and the environment.
Students become aware of the intended and unintended consequences of human activity, and recognize the need for responsible decision making and action.
Identify intended and unintended consequences of human activities within local and global environments.
Show that cultural and intellectual traditions have influenced the focus and methodologies of science.
Identify and interpret relationships among human needs, technologies, environments, and the culture and use of living things as sources of food and fibre.
Math
Mathematics learning is embedded in everyday activities, such as playing, reading, beading, baking, storytelling and helping around the home.
Children make sense of their environment through observations and interactions at home, in daycares, in preschools and in the community.
Allow students to create links between their own language and ideas, and the formal language and symbols of mathematics.
Communication helps students make connections among concrete, pictorial, symbolic, oral, written and mental representations of mathematical ideas.
When mathematical ideas are connected to each other or to real-world phenomena, students begin to view mathematics as useful, relevant and integrated.
Learning mathematics within contexts and making connections relevant to learners can validate past experiences and increase student willingness to participate and be actively engaged.
Working with patterns enables students to make connections within and beyond mathematics. These skills contribute to students’ interaction with, and understanding of, their environment.
Relationships with others?
Technology
Students will use technology to aid collaboration during inquiry.
Students will access, use and communicate information from a variety of technologies.
Students will communicate through multimedia.
Students will use communication technology to interact with others.
Use networks to brainstorm, plan and share ideas with group members.
Art
Students will learn to use the basic vocabulary of art criticism in descriptions of work.
Persons involved in the visual arts reflect upon and externalize their personal feelings and intuitions or those of their fellow human beings.
Changing the individual, in changing the relationship among individuals or in changing the social–physical environment.
Science
Prior knowledge & Current focus:
Grade 7 Units A & B.
Evaluate individual and group processes used in planning and carrying out investigative tasks.
Work collaboratively on problems; and use appropriate language and formats to communicate ideas, procedures and results.
Communicate questions, ideas, intentions, plans and results, using lists, notes in point form,
sentences, data tables, graphs, drawings, oral language and other means.
Work collaboratively in carrying out investigations and in generating and evaluating ideas
Receive, understand and act on the ideas of others.
Work cooperatively with team members to develop and carry out a plan and troubleshoot problems as they arise.
Math
Read about, represent, view, write about, listen to and discuss mathematical ideas.
Communication is important in clarifying, reinforcing and modifying ideas, attitudes and beliefs about mathematics.
Relationships within our world?
Technology
Make connections among related, organized data, and
assemble various pieces into a unified message.
Explain how the need for global communication affects technology around the world.
Explain ways in which technology can assist in the
monitoring of local and global environmental conditions.
Art
Students will analyze the relationships among components of images.
Students will understand that the role and form of art differs through time and across cultures.
Students will analyze the relationships among components of images.
Value in drawing is affected by the qualities of surfaces and the qualities of light.
Mood or emotion in an image can be affected by the balance of values and the quality of lines.
Primary colours combine to create secondary and tertiary colours.
Students will investigate the use of pattern and emphasis in the creation of compositions.
Science
Prior knowledge & Current focus:
Grade 7 Units A & B.
Growth and interactions of life forms within their environments in ways that reflect their uniqueness, diversity, genetic continuity and changing nature.
Matter has structure, and there are interactions among its components. Energy links matter to gravitational, electromagnetic and nuclear forces in the universe.
Illustrate how life-supporting environments meet the needs of living things for nutrients, energy sources, moisture, suitable habitat, and exchange of gases
Describe examples of interaction and interdependency within an ecosystem.
Ask questions about the relationships between and among observable variables, and plan investigations to address those questions.
Illustrate and explain the essential role of plants within the environment.
Show that science has influenced the wider world of ideas.
Investigate and interpret variations in plant structure, and relate these to different ways that plants are adapted to their environment
Analyze plant environments, and identify impacts of specific factors and controls.
Math
Meaningful student discussions provide essential links among concrete, pictorial and symbolic representations of mathematical concepts.
Make connections between mathematics and its
applications.
Mathematics is one way to interconnectedness in a holistic worldview. Mathematics is used to describe and explain relationships. As part of the study of mathematics, students look for relationships among numbers, sets, shapes, objects and concepts. The search for possible relationships involves collecting and analyzing data and describing relationships visually, symbolically, orally or in written form.
Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between positive terminating decimals and positive fractions and between positive repeating decimals and positive fractions.
Compare and order positive fractions, positive decimals (to thousandths) and whole numbers.
Experts
Park employees/Naturalists
These activities often reach curricular outcomes, and teachers are encouraged to offer ideas during planning in order to cater specifically to the goals of their class. In some cases, teachers can work with the same expert year after year, developing a repertoire with the most common learning goals and teaching strategies. Many parks offer extensive programs for people within the community and area schools. As a result, these experts are experienced in working with classes of various sizes and ages, and have enriching activities which have often been practiced and practically applied many times. These relationships make for smoother planning and well-designed activities.
Sites
Fish Creek Provincial Park
Outdoor activities at parks or natural areas are excellent for allowing students to analyze the relationships in the environment around them in a hands-on manner. This can work great for both the Interactions & Ecosystems and Plants for Food & Fibre units of science 7.
Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area
There is an activity offered at this site which fits in perfectly with this unit. Small group of students are assigned a disease, which is cured by a local plant. A scavenger hunt of sorts then ensues. Plants for medicine and pain medication is an important section of the first topic of unit B in the science program of studies, and this activity makes it extremely relatable for students.
Both of these programs are led by extremely knowledgable experts. Activities are well planned and fit nicely with curricular outcomes. Teachers are encouraged to visit these sites before field trips to iron out any details. Experts are always available to answer questions from teachers, students, or volunteers. These programs are well structured, but can allow for flexibility in some cases.
Zoo: Plants for Food & Fibre
Through this program, students can participate in guided activities, during which they have opportunities to examine plant samples and search for the plants which provide certain everyday products. Students also get to examine the root systems of real plants, and propagate their own plants. Students get to see the relationships between real plants and common objects first hand, and the ways that these plants have adapted to their natural surroundings.