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Design can be responsive to identified needs.
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Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills.
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Complex tasks may require multiple tools and technologies.
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Reflecting on our preferences and skills helps us identify the steps we need to take to achieve our career goals.
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The value of work in our lives, communities, and society can be viewed from diverse populations.
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Achieving our learning goals requires effort and perseverance.
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Adapting to economic and labour market changes requires flexibility.
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Our career paths reflect the personal, community and educational choices we make.
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Listening and viewing with intent helps deepen our understanding of French.
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We can express ourselves and talk about the world around us in French.
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With increased fluency in French, we can participate more actively in reciprocal interactions.
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Creative works allow us to experience culture in an authentic way.
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Stories allow us to understand ideas in a meaningful way.
- Storytelling, Identity, and First Nations’ Culture (Grade 8-10)
Acquiring a new language and learning about another culture deepen our understanding of our own language and culture.
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Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy.
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Exploring stories and other texts help us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
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People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
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Texts are socially, culturally and historically constructed.
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Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
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Number represents, describes, and compares the quantities of ratios, rates and percents.
- Rate/Ratio/Percentage (Grade 8)
- *Squares, Roots and Cubes (Grade 8, Blended Learning Micro-Unit)
Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with fractions.
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Discrete linear relations can be represented in many connected ways and used to identify and make generalizations.
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The relationship between surface area and volume of 3D objects can be used to describe, measure, and compare spatial relationships.
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Analyzing data by determining averages is one way to make sense of large data sets and enables us to compare and interpret.
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Daily participation in different types of physical activity influences our physical literacy and personal health and fitness goals.
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Lifelong participation in physical activity has many benefits and is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle.
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Healthy relationships can help us lead rewarding and fulfilling lives.
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Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional and mental well-being.
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Advocating for the health and wellbeing of others connects us to our community.
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Contacts and conflicts between peoples stimulated significant cultural, social, political change.
- Orange Shirt Day (Grade 8-12)
Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and living standards.
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Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.
- Exploration & Colonization (Grade 8)
- Orange Shirt Day (Grade 8-12)
Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.
- Medieval Studies (Grade 8, UOP)
Life processes are performed at the cellular level.
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The behavior of matter can be explained by the kinetic molecular theory and atomic theory.
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Energy can be transferred as both a particle and a wave.
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The theory of plate tectonics is the unifying theory that explains Earth’s geological processes.
- Plate Tectonics (Grade 8)
Creative growth requires patience, readiness to take risks, and willingness to try new approaches.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)
Individual and collective expression can be achieved through the arts.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)
Dance, drama, music and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)
Artists often challenge the status quo and open us to new perspectives and experiences.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)