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Ontario Grade 8

Click here to access the printable version of this yearly plan. 

Made by a Grade 8 teacher in Ontario. 

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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 8 Ontario curriculum. 

Digital/Media Literacy 8

Curricular outcomes:

  • Inquiry processes that include locating, processing, interpreting, synthesizing, and critically analyzing information in order to solve problems and make informed decisions. These processes involve critical, digital, and data literacy.
  • Strategies to use to determine whether information on the internet is reliable

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
Science - Water Systems

Curricular outcomes:

  • Identify factors, including climate change, that have contributed to the melting of glaciers and polar ice-caps, and describe the effects of this phenomenon on local and global water systems
  • Describe water quality, human impacts, and responsible water use

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Environment & Climate Change

Unit Plan Overview

  • Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
  • Lesson worksheet/answers
  • Video worksheet/answers
  • Inquiry activities/answer guides
  • Numeracy activity/answers
Geography 8

Curricular outcomes:

  • Global Inequality
  • Quality of life and economic development around the world are influenced by various factors.
  • Natural resources; needs and wants; sustainable communities
  • Human settlement can cause social, environmental, and economic problems; quality of life; economic development
  • Issues related to inequalities in global development and quality of life can have social, environmental, political, and/or economic implications.
  • We can use measurable indicators to help us understand spatial patterns of wealth and development around the world; social impacts on health

Applicable KBI lessons:

1. Global Inequality

Unit Plan Overview

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

 

2. Canada’s Interactions with the Global Community 

Lesson 1; Lesson 2; Lesson 3

Unit Plan Overview

  • Lesson worksheet/answers 
  • Video worksheet/answers
  • Inquiry activities/answer guides

 

3. Refugee Experiences 

Unit Plan Overview

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

 

Last modified: 
Feb 24, 2023