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Nova Scotia Grade 4

Nova Scotia

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Made by a Grade 4 teacher in Nova Scotia. 

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Click on the overarching curriculum themes below to see the curriculum outcomes that match KBI educational content. The full Grade 4 Nova Scotia Curriculum Connections document is here.

The Power of Persuasion

Curricular outcomes:

ELA

  • SCO 8.3 -experiment with language, appropriate to purpose, audience, and form, that enhances meaning and demonstrates imagination in writing and other ways of representing
  • SCO 9.2 -demonstrate an awareness of purpose and audience
  • SCO 10.5 -select, organize, and combine relevant information from two or more sources to construct and communicate meaning
  • GCO 10: Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and media products to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.

Health- Learners will analyse the impacts of substances on the health and safety of children

  • Marketing 
    • Where do we see marketing?
    • What are tactics used to get us to use/purchase substances? 
    • How would you recognize persuasive intent? 
    • What is the intent of marketing and advertising? 
    • How does marketing influence our consumption of substances? 
    • Where can health messaging be found in the marketing of products? 
    • How do I verify that health information in a marketing message is reliable?

Science- Attitude: Scientific Discovery

  • 416 appreciate the importance of accuracy and honesty 
  • 417 demonstrate perseverance and a desire to understand Evident when students, for example: 
    • listen to, recognize, and consider differing opinions 
    • seek additional information before making a decision 
    • base conclusions on evidence rather than preconceived ideas or hunches 
    • report and record what is observed, not what they think ought to be or what they believe the teacher expects 
    • willingly consider changing actions and opinions when presented with new information or evidence 
    • record accurately what has been seen or measured when collecting evidence 

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
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Curricular outcomes:

ELA

  • Learners will communicate effectively and clearly respecting cultural contexts.
  • Learners will demonstrate a variety of ways to select and comprehend from a range of culturally diverse print and digital texts.
  • SCO 7.3 -respond critically to text

Science- Life Science: Habitat

  • Learners will investigate a variety of local natural habitats.
  • Learners will analyse interconnectiveness of and within local habitats, inclusive of a Mi’kmaw perspective.
    • Behavioural and Structural Features of Animals That Enable Them to Survive in Their Habitat: compare the external features, behavioural patterns, structural, and/or behavioural adaptations for an animal to survive a particular habitat, real or imagined (204-3, 300-1, 300-2, 302-2)
    • Food Chains: classify organisms and draw diagrams to illustrate their role in a food chain (206-1, 302-3)

Social Studies

  • Learners will investigate the concept of exploration.
    • 4.1.1 examine the concept of exploration
  • Learners will evaluate the impacts of exploration.
    • 4.2.2 analyze factors that motivate exploration 
    • 4.2.3 evaluate the impact of exploration over time
  • Learners will investigate the relationships between humans and the physical environment.
    • 4.3.3 examine the relationship between humans and the physical environment

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Classifying Living Things

Unit Plan Overview

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

 

2. Life on Turtle Island

Unit Plan Overview

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

 

3. Cooperation and Colonization

Unit Plan Overview

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

Curricular outcomes:

Health- Learners will investigate how health behaviours impact physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health.

  • Communicable Diseases
    • What are common childhood communicable diseases? 
    • How are communicable diseases transmitted? Learners will investigate how health behaviours impact physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. 
    • What are impacts of communicable diseases?
  • Marketing- How do I verify that health information in a marketing message is reliable?

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Scientific Curiosity and Vaccine Discoveries

Link to Lessons

 

2. The Spread of Infectious Diseases

Link to Lessons

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

Reflecting on leadership qualities that foster kindness (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

  • 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

 

Last modified: 
Sep 3, 2024