British Columbia Grade 5
Made by a Grade 5 teacher in British Columbia.
Kids Boost Immunity (KBI) provides educational content (lessons and support materials) developed by teachers and where needed, health experts, that is directly linked to curriculum and is available completely for free. Each lesson is paired with an online quiz that students can take on a laptop, tablet, or phone. Every time a student scores 80% or higher on a quiz, we donate life-saving vaccines to UNICEF Canada. To learn more about KBI, click here.
Click on the overarching curriculum themes below to see the curriculum outcomes that match KBI educational content. The full Grade 5 British Columbia Curriculum Connections document is here.
- Building Critical Inquiry and Reflective Thinking Skills
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Curricular outcomes:
English Language Arts - Curricular Competency
- Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
- Access and integrate information and ideas from a variety of sources and from prior knowledge to build understanding
- Consider different purposes, audiences, and perspectives in exploring texts
- Apply a variety of thinking skills to gain meaning from texts
- Identify how differences in context, perspectives, and voice influence meaning in texts
Science - Curricular Competency
- Planning and conducting
- With support, plan appropriate investigations to answer their questions or solve problems they have identified
- Choose appropriate data to collect to answer their questions
- Observe, measure, and record data, using appropriate tools, including digital technologies
- Evaluating
- Identify possible sources of error
- Suggest improvements to their investigation methods
- Identify some of the assumptions in secondary sources
- Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence
Social Studies - Curricular Competency
- Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
- Key skills:
- Compare information and viewpoints about a selected problem or issue
- Give reasons for using more than one source of information (e.g., differing points of view, currency of information, level of detail, reliability)
- Apply a variety of strategies for information gathering (e.g., headings, indices, Internet searches)
- Distinguish between primary and secondary sources
- Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of different sources (evidence)
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
- Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
- Canadian Levels of Government
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Curricular outcomes:
Social Studies - Content
- Levels of government (First Peoples, federal, provincial, and municipal), their main functions, and sources of funding
- Sample activities:
- Distinguish between the different levels of government in Canada: municipal, provincial, territorial, federal
- Summarize the responsibilities of government (e.g., providing and administering services, making laws, collecting and allocating taxes
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Canada's Three Levels of Government
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
- Canadian Immigration - Refugee Experiences
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Curricular outcomes:
Social Studies - Content
- The changing nature of Canadian immigration over time
English Language Arts - Curricular Competency
- Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
- Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and develop understanding of self, community, and world
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Refugee Experiences
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
Curriculum-Related Themes Throughout the Year
- First Peoples - Truth and Reconciliation (September and June)
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Curricular outcomes:
Core Competencies - Personal and Social
- Social Awareness and Responsibility
- Valuing Diversity
- Students value diversity, defend human rights, advocate for issues, and interact ethically with others. They are inclusive in their language and behaviour and recognize that everyone has something to contribute. Their approach to inclusive relationships exemplifies commitment to developing positive communities.
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Life on Turtle Island
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
2. Cooperation and Colonization
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Reflecting on hardships and courage during WWII (November)
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Curricular outcomes:
English Language Arts - Big Ideas
- Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world
Physical and Health Education - Content
- Practices that promote health and well-being, including those that prevent communicable and non-communicable illnesses
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Remembrance Day / Veterans Day / Armistice Day
- Being kind and building leadership skills to help make a difference to others (December)
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Curricular outcomes:
Core Competency - Personal and Social
- Social Awareness and Responsibility
- Building relationships
- Students build and maintain diverse, positive peer and intergenerational relationships. They are aware and respectful of others’ needs and feelings and share their own in appropriate ways. They adjust their words and actions to care for their relationships
Physical and Health Education - Core Competency
- Social and community health
- Describe and apply strategies for developing and maintaining positive relationships
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Winter Break - Spreading Kindness
- Highlighting some key inspirational leaders during Black History Month as well as some experiences of refugees from different parts of the world (February)
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Curricular connections:
English Language Arts - Big Ideas
- Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world
Core Competency - Personal and Social
- Social Awareness and Responsibility
- Valuing diversity
- Students value diversity, defend human rights, advocate for issues, and interact ethically with others. They are inclusive in their language and behaviour and recognize that everyone has something to contribute. Their approach to inclusive relationships exemplifies commitment to developing positive communities
Physical and Health Education - Big Ideas
- Developing healthy relationships helps us feel connected, supported, and valued
PHE - Core Competency
- Describe and assess strategies for responding to discrimination, stereotyping, and bullying:
- Cultivating an awareness of bullying, discrimination, and violence based on gender identity/ expressions, sexuality, race, religion, or ethnicity, etc.
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Black History Month
2. Refugee Experiences
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities
- Celebrating inspiring women in STEM (March)
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Curricular outcomes:
Core Competency - Personal and Social
- Social Awareness and Responsibility
- Valuing diversity
- Students value diversity, defend human rights, advocate for issues, and interact ethically with others. They are inclusive in their language and behaviour and recognize that everyone has something to contribute. Their approach to inclusive relationships exemplifies commitment to developing positive communities
Physical and Health Education - Big Ideas
- Developing healthy relationships helps us feel connected, supported, and valued
PHE - Core Competency
- Describe and assess strategies for responding to discrimination, stereotyping, and bullying:
- Cultivating an awareness of bullying, discrimination, and violence based on gender identity/ expressions, sexuality, race, religion, or ethnicity, etc.
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. International Women's Day - Celebrating Inspiring Women in STEM
- Literacy builder worksheets/answer guides
- Inquiry activities
- Understanding communicable diseases and how they are spread, and learning about immunization. Suggested during flu season, immunization awareness week, and school vaccinations (if applicable)
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Curricular outcomes:
Physical and Health Education - Content
- Practices that promote health and well-being, including those that prevent communicable and non-communicable illnesses
- Sources of health information and support services
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Immunization Awareness Week
2. The Spread of Infectious Diseases
3. Scientific Curiosity and Vaccine Discoveries