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Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 5

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Made by a Grade 5 teacher in Newfoundland and Labrador. 

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Click on the curriculum unit/big ideas below to see a suggested yearly plan on how to integrate KBI in the Grade 5 Newfoundland and Labrador curriculum. 

Science - Weather 

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

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Inquiry activities/answer guides
  • Numeracy activity/answers
Critical Thinking

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 

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Inquiry activities/answer guides
  • Numeracy activity/answers
Social Studies

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

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Video worksheet/answers
  • Inquiry activities/answer guides
Science - Body Works

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

Unit Plan Overview

  • 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

  • Numeracy Activity

Health & Wellbeing

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

Lesson Plan

  • Activity

Religious Education

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

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Inquiry activities/answer guides

 

Last modified: 
Feb 24, 2023