Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 5

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Made by a Grade 5 teacher in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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- Science - Weather
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Curricular outcomes:
- GCO 2 (Skills): Students will develop the skills required for scientific and technological inquiry, for solving problems, for communicating scientific ideas and results, for working collaboratively, and for making informed decisions.
- 40.0 provide examples of how science and technology have been used to solve problems in their community and region
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Environment & Climate Change
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
- Critical Thinking
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Curricular outcomes:
- Social Studies: Unit 1: Exploring the Past
- Language Arts: Critical Literacy
- Science: Integration Skills- Scientific inquiry
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Critical Thinking & Evaluating Information
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
- Social Studies
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Curricular outcomes:
- Unit 2: Students will locate and describe the society using geographic concepts
- Unit 4: Decision Making
- Students will explain the social structures of societies
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Canada's Three Levels of Government
Lessons 1-9; Lesson 11
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Science - Body Works
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Curricular outcomes:
- Unit 4: describe the body's defenses against infections.
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Germs, The Body’s Defense System, and How Vaccines Help
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
2. The Spread of Infectious Diseases
Lesson Plan
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Numeracy activity/answers
3. Vaccines Preventable Diseases
Lesson 3; Lesson 5; Lesson 7
Lesson Plan
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Numeracy activity/answers
4. Antibiotics
5. Influenza
Lesson Plan
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Numeracy Activity
- Health & Wellbeing
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Curricular outcomes:
- Self-Care - understand the interrelationship of physical and mental health, and general well-being and understand that the way we are treated impacts on self-esteem and general emotional well-being,
- Cross Curricular Approach: self image, adolescence, identity
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Social & Emotional Learning
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Activity
- Religious Education
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Curricular outcomes:
- Students will be expected to examine the influence of religion on contemporary issues and events.
Applicable KBI lessons:
1. Canada's Interactions with the Global Community
Lessons 1-4; Lesson 6
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides