New Brunswick Grade 8
Made by a Grade 8 teacher in New Brunswick.
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 8 New Brunswick Curriculum Connections document is here.
- Health
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Curricular outcomes:
Health- Wellness (GCO1)
- Students will make responsible and informed decisions to promote and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
- SCO6.1.1- Health Care Prevention
- Communicable and non-communicable diseases
- SCO8.1.3- Students will evaluate how media and technology influence the health and well-being of self and community.
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
- Inquiry activities
3. The Spread of Infectious Diseases
- English Language Arts (ELA)
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Curricular outcomes:
ELA- Reading & Viewing
- 5- Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information, using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- access appropriate print and nonprint sources with increasing independence and select information to meet specific needs with increasing speed, accuracy, and confidence
- employ various relevant research strategies such as generating questions, drafting an outline, or interviewing peers to determine what questions they would like answered by their research
- 7- Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
- recognize that texts need to be assessed for bias and broaden their understanding and awareness of the ways in which print and media texts can be biased; begin to question and think critically about the relevance and reliability of information when answering questions and inquiries
- identify the various features and elements writers use when writing for specific readers for specific purposes; describe how texts are organized to accommodate particular readers’ needs and to contribute to meaning and effect
- expand on earlier abilities to respond critically to a range of texts in various ways
- understand how personal knowledge, ideas, values, perceptions, and points of view influence how writers create texts
- recognize how and when personal background influences meaning construction, understanding, and textual response
- describe how cultures and reality 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
- Inquiry activities
- 5- Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information, using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
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
- Reflecting on leadership qualities that foster kindness (December)
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Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Christmas in No Man’s Land - Reflecting on Kindness
- 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. Indigenous History on Turtle Island
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers