Nova Scotia Grade 7
Made by a Grade 7 teacher in Nova Scotia.
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Click on the overarching curriculum themes below to see the curriculum outcomes that match KBI educational content. The full Grade 7 Nova Scotia Curriculum Connections document is here.
- Health
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Curricular outcomes:
Health: Learners will analyse how life skills influence physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health.
- Concepts
- Influences on Healthy Decision-Making
- How can we determine reliable sources of health information from unreliable sources?
- Skills
- Analyse
- Gather and select appropriate information; determine accuracy, validity, and relevance of the information; identify perspectives; communicate findings
- Investigate
- Ask and revise questions; locate several relevant and dependable details to support an answer; organize and compare details; identify relationships, recognize represented perspectives, and communicate findings.
Health: Learners will analyse the relationships between health behaviours and physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
- Communicable Disease Prevention
- Why is it important to know how diseases are spread?
- Why are disease prevention methods important?
- Why is it important to know how to prevent the spread of communicable diseases?
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Critical Thinking & Evaluating Information
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
2. Navigating the World of Online (Mis)Information
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
3. The Spread of Infectious Diseases
- Concepts
- Science
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Curricular outcomes:
Science- Environmental Action
- Learners will analyse the interconnectiveness of living things and the environment, in relation to the concept of Netukulimk.
- Ecosystems
- What are some characteristics that different ecosystems have in common?
- Interconnectedness
- What are some of the interconnections that can be observed in various ecosystems?
- How do abiotic and biotic components interact in various ecosystems?
- How can biological indicators be used as a marker for environmental health?
- Food Web
- How do organisms interact within an ecosystem?
- How do producer populations impact consumer populations?
- Human Impact
- How are humans impacting ecosystems?
- How has the impact of humans on ecosystems changed over time?
- How are green technologies changing the impact of humans on ecosystems?
- Learners will implement an environmental stewardship plan.
- Netukulimk, Sustainability and Conservation
- How can we live according to Netukulimk?
- Why is it important to care for the environment?
- Environmental Stewardship
- How can it be determined whether a local environment needs to be protected?
- How can the impact of local environmental initiatives be determined?
- How do people in my community take care of the environment?
- How can I take care of the environment?
- Mitigating Environmental Harm
- How can more green space be created?
- How can you determine if conservation and sustainability strategies are effective?
- Learners will investigate factors that affect species adaptation and evolution.
- Investigate the concept of natural selection and its role in evolution (COM/CT)
- Investigate evidence of evolution (COM/CT)
- Evolution
- Why do living things change over time?
- How can we see evidence of species evolution?
- Natural Selection
- How do living things change over time?
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Diversity of Living Things
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
2. Environment & Climate Change
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
3. Evolution and Natural Selection
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Social Studies
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Curricular outcomes:
Social Studies
- Learners will reflect on the impact of government policies and the denial of treaty rights on Mi’kmaw communities and individuals in Mi’kma’ki
- Geographic Impact on Mi’kmaw Communities
- How can the teachings of Msit No’kmaq and Netukulimk teach us about the Mi’kmaw connection to the land?
- How were the lives of the Mi’kmaq influenced by geographic location?
- How did the creation of reserves and the reserve system impact the relationship between Mi’kmaw and other communities?
- How did the creation of the reserve system impact Mi’kmaw connections to the land?
- Civic Impact on Mi’kmaw Communities
- Why did the government pursue a policy of assimilation?
- How did the Mi’kmaq resist assimilation?
- Why were government decisions unfair to the Mi’kmaq?
- How did the government create unfair living conditions for Mi'kmaw people?
- Resilience
- How did the Mi’kmaq resist unfair government decisions?
- How did the Mi’kmaq protect their cultural practices despite discriminatory policies?
- How did the Mi’kmaq preserve their traditional ways of life despite the challenges posed by discriminatory policies?
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Life on Turtle Island
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers