Manitoba Grade 4

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Thinking Critically

Curricular outcomes:

ELA- Learners are recognizing the need for validity and reliability; Learners are recognizing that point of view has an impact on understanding

1.2.1 Develop Understanding
- Connect new information and experiences with prior knowledge to construct meaning in different contexts.
3.2.3 Assess Sources
- Assess the usefulness of information for inquiry or research using pre-established criteria.
3.2.5 Make Sense of Information
- Determine main and supporting ideas using prior knowledge, predictions, connections, inferences, and visual and auditory cues.

Science

4-0-2a. Access information using a variety of sources
4-0-2b. Review information to determine its usefulness to inquiry or research needs.
4-0-8b. Recognize that scientists must support their explanations using evidence and scientific knowledge.

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Critical Thinking & Evaluating Information

Unit Plan Overview

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Community

Curricular outcomes:

Science: Habitat & Communities

4-0-1c. Identify practical problems to solve in the local environment.
4-1-01 Use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of habitats and communities
4-1-02 Recognize that each plant and animal depends on a specific habitat to meet its needs.
4-1-04 Identify physical and behavioural adaptations of animals and plants, and infer how these adaptation
4-1-09 Recognize that plant and animal populations interact within a community.
4-1-11 Construct food chains and food webs, and classify organisms according to their roles
4-1-14 Investigate natural and human-caused changes to habitats, and identify resulting effects on plant and animal populations.
4-1-15 Describe how their actions can help conserve plant and animal populations and their habitats.

Social Studies: Living in Manitoba

4-S-103 Make decisions that reflect care, concern, and responsibility for the environment.
4-KL-023 Identify issues related to environmental stewardship and sustainability in Manitoba.

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Environment & Climate Change

Unit Plan Overview

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Leadership

Curricular outcomes:

Social Studies: Living in Canada

4-KP-045 Give examples of formal and informal power and authority in their lives.
4-KC-002 Identify democratic ideals in Canadian society.
4-KP-041 Explain the purposes of government.
4-KP-042 Identify levels of government in Canada and give examples of their responsibilities.
4-KE-048 Identify various ways in which governments help people meet their needs

Math

4.N.7. Demonstrate an understanding of division (1-digit divisor and up to 2-digit dividend) to solve problem
4.PR.4. Identify and explain mathematical relationships using charts and diagrams to solve problems

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Canada’s Three Levels of Government

Unit Plan Overview

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Connections

Curricular outcomes:

Social Studies

4-KL-024 Give examples of Aboriginal peoples' traditional relationships with the land.
4-VL-006A Respect their spiritual connection to the natural environment (land, water, sky).
4-KI-007 Identify Aboriginal communities, cultures, and languages in Manitoba. Examples: Cree, Ojibway, Dakota, Michif, Oji-Cree, Dene…
4-KI-009 Describe the influence of various factors on their identities. Include: culture, community, place, region.

ELA- Learners are recognizing families’ and peers’ unique identities and similar and different ways of seeing the world.; Learners are recognizing, comparing, and using the codes and conventions of print, oral, visual, and multimodal texts.

2.2.1 Experience Various Texts
- Experience texts from a variety of forms and genres [such as personal narratives, plays, adventure stories, mysteries...] and cultural traditions; share responses.
2.1.4 Cueing Systems
- Use syntactic, semantic, and graphophonic cueing systems [including word order; context clues; structural analysis to identify roots, prefixes, suffixes, compound words, contractions, and singular and plural words] to construct and confirm meaning; use a junior dictionary to determine word meaning in context.
5.2.3 Use Language to Show Respect
- Appreciate variations in language use in a variety of contexts in immediate communities.

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Life on Turtle Island

Unit Plan Overview

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Curriculum-Related Themes Throughout the Year

Reflecting on hardships and courage during WWII (November)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Remembrance Day / Veterans Day / Armistice Day

Lesson Plan/Activity

Being kind and building leadership skills to help make a difference to others (December)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Winter Break - Spreading Kindness

Lesson Plan/Activities

Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
Activity - Making A Difference
Activity - Compare and Contrast special things at this time of year
Activity - Recipe book
Activity - Shape Poem

Highlighting some key inspirational leaders during Black History Month as well as some experiences of refugees from different parts of the world (February)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Black History Month

2. Refugee Experiences

Unit Plan Overview

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Inquiry activities

Celebrating Inspiring Women in STEM (March)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. International Women's Day - Celebrating Inspiring Women in STEM

Unit Plan Overview

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)