New Brunswick Grade 7
Made by a Grade 7 teacher in New Brunswick.
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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 New Brunswick Curriculum Connections document is here.
- ELA
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Curricular outcomes:
ELA Reading & Viewing
- SCO5- Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information, using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- use research strategies such as issue mapping and webbing to guide research
- become increasingly aware of and use periodically the many print and non-print avenues and sources (Internet, documentaries, interviews) through which information can be accessed and selected
- SCO7- Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre. understanding of language, form, and genre.
- recognize that print and media texts can be biased and become aware of some of the ways that information is organized and structured to suit a particular point of view
- recognize that print and media texts are constructed for particular readers and purposes; begin to identify the textual elements used by authors
- develop an ability to respond critically to various texts in a variety of ways such as identifying, describing, and discussing the form, structure, and content of texts and how they might contribute to meaning construction and understanding
- recognize that personal knowledge, ideas, values, perceptions, and points of view influence how writers create texts
- become aware of how and when personal background influences meaning construction, understanding, and textual response
- recognize that there are values inherent in a text, and begin to identify those values
- explore how various cultures and realities are portrayed in media texts
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
- SCO5- Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information, using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- Science
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Curricular outcomes:
Science- Weather Systems & Climate Core Concepts (WS&C)
- Earth systems: biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere
- Definitions: Weather, climate, global warming
Science- Learning & Living Sustainably
- SCO2.1- Students will consider factors that support responsible application of scientific and technological knowledge and demonstrate an understanding of sustainable practices.
- Describe the causes and effects of climate change.
- Apply systems thinking to understanding of ecosystem interdependence.
- Understand the need for more responsible consumption and production patterns.
- Develop solutions to community issues and challenges concerned with resource use and waste management.
Science- Sustainability Core Concepts (S)
- Climate science basics e.g., greenhouse gas effects, carbon cycle and physical impacts – sea level rise and severe weather; Climate resilience e.g., Adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Global climate systems: Definitions e.g., global warming, greenhouse effect, climate change; local and global impacts e.g., economic, societal, and environmental concepts and connection to human lives and threats to biodiversity
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Environment & Climate Change
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
- Social Studies
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Curricular outcomes:
Social Studies-Introduction
- 7.1.1 Explore the general concept of empowerment
- define power and authority and explain how each influences their own lives
- identify and categorize sources of power and authority
- identify groups that are empowered and disempowered in our society (local, national, and global)
- 7.2.2 Investigate the various ways economic systems empower or disempower people
- explain that people have basic needs that must be met
- analyze the role that money plays in meeting basic needs
- explain how capital is empowering
- investigate and report on the challenges of the poverty cycle
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Global Inequality
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- 7.1.1 Explore the general concept of empowerment
Curriculum-Related Themes Throughout the Year
- Reflecting on hardships and courage during WWII (November)
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Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Remembrance Day / Veterans Day / Armistice Day
- Building leadership skills to help others (December)
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Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Winter Break - A Time to Reflect on Making a Difference
- Inquiry/creative activities
- 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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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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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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Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Immunization Awareness Week
2. The Spread of Infectious Diseases
3. Scientific Curiosity and Vaccine Discoveries
- Indigenous History on Turtle Island - pre-contact, contact, treaties, colonialism, The Indian Act (June)
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Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Life on Turtle Island
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers