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Manitoba Grade 7

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Made by a Grade 7 teacher in Manitoba. 

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 7 Manitoba Curriculum Connections document is here.

English Language Arts (ELA) 7

Curricular outcomes:

  • ELA 7 Global competencies in ELA
    • Critical Thinking
    • Citizenship
    • Connection to Self
    • Collaboration
  • Enduring Understandings
    • Language and literacies:
      • are central to all learning
      • are complex continuous and recursive
      • develop differently for each individual
      • learning and use are social
      • demands are evolving
      • experiences inform our sense of self
      • are enacted through inextricably connected practices
  • ELA.7.A.2
    • Language as the foundation of Reading & Writing
    • Learners will develop and apply the understanding of the system of language (knowledge and skills) and language comprehension for reading and writing.
  • ELA.7.A2.4 Word Study (Morphology)
    • Analyze and apply knowledge of word parts and patterns (morphology) to determine word meaning and accurate spelling (e.g., Greek/Latin affixes and roots – precede, recede, secede). 
  • NOTE: There are learning activities for most lessons that focus on critical/creative inquiry and these connect to a number of additional outcomes.

All KBI learning modules are applicable.

Health

Curricular outcomes:

Health Education

  • K.5.7.D.2 Explain different consequences, related to different variables (i.e., fair play, legalities, performance, medical, safety, and financial implications), of taking harmful and beneficial drugs or other substances (e.g., antibiotics,
  • K.5.7.D.3 Identify the positive and negative social factors (i.e., influences of peers, families, role models, media, Internet, celebrities, social occasions, parties) that may influence avoidance and/or use of substances
  • K.5.7.E.4b Identify the common STIs (e.g., genital herpes, gonorrhoea, chlamydia...), their symptoms, and means of prevention 
  • K.4.7.B.1a Identify socially acceptable behaviours (e.g., keep an open mind, show a willingness to try, recognize own feelings and emotions, step away from the situation if feeling anger...) for dealing with new situations and/or change 

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Scientific Curiosity and Vaccine Discoveries

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheets/answer guides
  • Inquiry activities
Science

Curricular outcomes:

Science: Strand C-Practical Science

  • SCI.7.C.3- Apply a range of scientific, technological or engineering practices (e.g., asking questions, identifying problems, observing, experimenting, measuring, classifying, collecting and analyzing data, engaging in scientific debate and argumentation, communicating results, designing and building) in a manner that demonstrates respect and ensures personal safety and the safety of others.

Science: Strand C- The Nature of Science

  • SCI.7.D.1- Demonstrate the understanding that empirical data must be systematically collected, and conclusions reviewed, to detect potential errors and minimize bias.
    • Include the following: peer review, types of bias.

Science: Strand D: Nature of Science

  • SCI.7.D.7- Demonstrate the understanding that technologies designed to improve life can have predictable as well as unforeseen detrimental consequences.
  • SCI.7.D.8- Demonstrate an understanding that as new information emerges about a technology’s impacts, individuals, communities or societies must evaluate whether technologies should continue to be used, modified, redesigned, or replaced.

Science: Strand E- Scientific Knowledge

  • SCI.7.E.10- Demonstrate the understanding that many phenomena can be understood in terms of energy exchanges.
  • SCI.7.E.17- Demonstrate an understanding of the concept and nature of a selfsustaining ecosystem. Examples: habitat, population, community
  • SCI.7.E.18- Demonstrate an understanding of photosynthesis.
    • Include the following: energy, chlorophyll, glucose.
  • SCI.7.E.19- Demonstrate an understanding of energy transfer in ecosystems.
    • Include the following: Sun, energy loss, food chain, food web, ecological pyramid.
  • SCI.7.E.20- Demonstrate an understanding of the roles of organisms at various trophic levels, and their importance in sustaining an ecosystem.
    • Include the following: producers (autotrophs), consumers (heterotrophs), decomposers.
  • SCI.7.E.21- Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of competition for resources within an ecosystem.
    • Examples: energy, nutrients, water, space
  • SCI.7.E.22- Demonstrate an understanding of the need for the recycling of nutrients and for the replenishing of energy within ecosystems.
  • SCI.7.E.23- Demonstrate an understanding of the potential effects on plants and animals in an ecosystem when conditions change.
    • Examples: loss of food source, loss of habitat, polluted water, climate change

Science: Strand B- Science Identity

  • SCI.7.B.1- Develop a sense of agency, identity, and belonging in science by
    • cultivating natural curiosity about the world
    • acquiring scientific skills and fostering scientific attitudes
    • building a personal connection to nature
    • establishing links between science concepts and personal experience
    • recognizing that everyone can contribute to science

Science: Strand A- Indigenous Knowledge Systems

  • SCI.7.A.1- Demonstrate an understanding of different First Nations, Métis, and Inuit ways of knowing, being, and doing by exploring Indigenous methods of observing and interpreting the world, applying scientific principles, and creating technologies within local traditional and contemporary contexts (e.g., wholistic, reciprocal, interconnected, and sustainable ways; land-based learning; outdoor learning; intersections with Western science).

Science: Strand D- Nature of Science

  • SCI.8.D.7- Demonstrate the understanding that technologies designed to improve life can have predictable as well as unforeseen consequences.
    • Examples: medicines (improved health, antibiotic resistance); agricultural technologies (food security, biodiversity loss); manufacturing technologies (affordable goods, pollution); groundwater extraction technologies (water access and reuse, contamination, and aquifer depletion); transportation technologies (mobility, greenhouse gas emissions); plastics and synthetic materials (convenience, pollution); digital communication (connectivity, misinformation and e-waste); renewable energy technologies (clean energy, land-use and wildlife impacts)
  • SCI.8.D.8- Demonstrate an understanding that as new information emerges about a technology’s impacts; individuals, communities or societies must evaluate whether technologies should continue to be used, modified, redesigned or replaced.
    • Examples: environmental impacts of energy technologies; effects of agricultural and land-use technologies on biodiversity; influences of digital communication technologies on social well-being; and effects of waste management technologies on water quality and ecosystem health; environmental impacts of mineral extraction

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Critical Thinking & Evaluating Information

Unit Plan Overview

  • 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

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Inquiry activities

 

3. Diversity of Living Things

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Video worksheet/answers
  • Numeracy activity/answers

 

4. Environment & Climate Change

Unit Plan Overview

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

Curricular outcomes:

Social Studies- Quality of Life

  • KC-002 Describe the impact of various factors on quality of life in Canada and elsewhere in the world.
  • KI-006 Identify diverse cultural and social perspectives regarding quality of life.
  • KG-034 Identify reasons why people emigrate.  
  • KP-039 Give examples of government decisions that affect quality of life. 
  • KI-007 Describe the impact of discriminatory attitudes and practices on quality of life.
  • VC-001 Respect the inherent dignity of all people. 
  • KP-041 Explain the relationship between power and access to wealth and resources
  • KE-045 Give examples of the uneven distribution of wealth and resources in the world and describe the impact on individuals, communities, and nations. 
  • KG-033 Give examples of events and achievements that enhance understanding among peoples and nations.
  • KG-035 Give examples of global cooperation to solve conflicts or disasters.
  • KG-036 Identify various international organizations and describe their role in protecting or enhancing global quality of life.
  • VG-011 Value the contributions of international agencies and humanitarians to quality of life.
  • VP-014 Appreciate the positive contributions of various individuals to world affairs. 
  • VP-013 Demonstrate concern for people who are affected by discrimination, injustice, or abuse of power. 
  • VC-002 Acknowledge that the rights of citizenship involve limitations on personal freedom for the sake of collective quality of life.  

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Refugee Experiences

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Video worksheet/answers

 

2. Global Inequality

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Video worksheet/answers
English Language Arts (ELA)

Curricular outcomes:

1.2.3    Combine Ideas

  • Identify or invent personally meaningful ways of organizing ideas and information to clarify and extend understanding

2.2.3    Appreciate the Artistry of Texts

  • Identify language and visual images that create mood and evoke emotion in oral, literary, and media texts.

2.3.2    Techniques and Elements

  • Examine techniques of plot development [such as narrative books, conflict, resolution, surprise endings...] and of persuasion [such as testimonials, emotional appeals, bandwagon effects...] in oral, literary, and media texts.

3.2.2    Identify Sources

  • Extend inquiry and research questions using a variety of information sources [such as adults, peers, advertisements, adolescent magazines, lyrics...].

3.2.3    Assess Sources

  • Use pre-established criteria to evaluate the currency, usefulness, and reliability of information sources in answering inquiry or research questions.

3.2.5    Make Sense of Information

  • Determine literal and implied meaning of oral, visual, and written texts using a variety of strategies and cues [including headings, subheadings, topic sentences, summaries, camera angle, staging and pacing, and screening out irrelevant information].

3.3.3    Evaluate Information

  • Assess the appropriateness of the amount and quality of information collected; recognize and address information gaps for particular forms, audiences, and purposes.

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Critical Thinking & Evaluating Information

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Video worksheet/answers
  • Inquiry activities/answers
  • Numeracy activity/answers

 

2. Navigating the World of Online (Mis)Information

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Inquiry activity

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

Building leadership skills to make a difference for others (December)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Winter Break - A Time To Reflect on Making a Difference  

Lesson Plan/Activities

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • 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)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Black History Month

 

2. Refugee Experiences

Unit Plan Overview

  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • 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)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Immunization Awareness Week

 

2. The Spread of Infectious Diseases

Link to Lessons

 

3. Scientific Curiosity and Vaccine Discoveries

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheets/answer guides
  • Inquiry activities
Indigenous History on Turtle Island - pre-contact, contact, treaties, colonialism, The Indian Act (June)

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Life on Turtle Island

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers

 

Last modified: 
Oct 8, 2026