Ontario Grade 8
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Made by a Grade 8 teacher in Ontario.
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- Digital/Media Literacy 8
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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
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
- Science - Water Systems
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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
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers
- Geography 8
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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
- 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
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
3. Refugee Experiences
- Literacy builder worksheet/answer guide
- Lesson worksheet/answers
- Video worksheet/answers
- Inquiry activities/answer guides
- Numeracy activity/answers