Inquiry Sequence

Unit 1: Noticing Place - Land Acknowledgements (Sept-October)

Unit 2: Seasonal Observations - Change Over Time (November-December)

Unit 3: Human–Land Relationships - Land Stewardship (January-February)

Unit 4: Indigenous Narratives of Place - Stories of Place (March-April)

Unit 5: Synthesis & Reflection - Place as Teacher (May-June)

Driving Questions

How can we show gratitude and responsibility to the land where we live and learn?

How does this place change, and how do we change with it?

How do people and place shape each other?

What stories does this place hold, and why do they matter?

What has this place taught me?

Curricular Goals

French Immersion Language Arts

Awareness of other cultures helps us discover our own culture and build our own identity

• Deconstruct a sentence into word groups to enhance comprehension

• Express ideas, emotions, and personal experiences using visual and gestural elements

• Write short texts that follow the rules of sentence structure and connect ideas in a logical fashion

Social Studies

Individuals have rights and responsibilities as global citizens

• Relationships between people and the environment

• Diverse characteristics of communities and cultures in Canada

• Use Social Studies processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions

• Explain why people, places, or events are significant to various individuals and groups

• Explain why people's beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences, and roles give them different perspectives on places

Science

Water is essential to all living things, and it cycles through the environment

• Make and record observations

• Experience and interpret the local environment

• Recognize First Peoples' stories, songs, and art as ways to share knowledge

• Consider some environmental consequences of our actions

• Express and reflect on personal experiences of place

ADST

Technologies are tools that extend human capabilities

• • Compile a learning portfolio of digital artifacts

  • Share learning using technology

Core Competency Goals

• Social Awareness and Responsibility

  • Contributing to community and caring for the environment

• Positive Personal and Cultural Identity

  • Understanding relationships and cultural contexts

• Personal Awareness and Responsibility

  • Self-regulating

• Creative Thinking

  • Creating and innovating

  • Generating and incubating

  • Evaluating and developing

• Critical and Reflective Thinking

  • Analyzing and critiquing

  • Questioning and investigating

  • Designing and developing

  • Reflecting and Assessing

• Communicating

  • Connecting and engaging with others

  • Focusing on intent and purpose

  • Acquiring and presenting information

• Collaborating

  • Supporting group interactions

  • Determining common purposes