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Curricular Competencies

Grade K
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12

Applied Design, Skills and Technology

Use materials, tools, and technologies in a safe manner in both physical and digital environments.

Develop their skills and add new ones through play and collaborative work.

Explore the use of simple, available tools and technologies to extend their capabilities.

Make a product using known procedures or through modelling of others.

Demonstrate their product, tell the story of designing and making their product, and explain how their product contributes to the individual, family, community, and/or environment.

Arts Education

Explore personal experience, community, and culture through arts activities.

English Language Arts

Recognize the structure and elements of story
Create stories and other texts to deepen awareness of self, family, and community
Explore oral storytelling processes
Use developmentally appropriate reading, listening, and viewing strategies to make meaning

Math

Model mathematics in contextualized experiences.

Science

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Sequence objects, images, and events, or explain why some aspects change and others stay the same (continuity and change). 

Recognize the causes and consequences of events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence).

Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events
Experience and interpret the local environment
Consider some environmental consequences of their actions
Represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways, such as diagrams and simple reports using digital technologies as appropriate

Social Studies

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

Explain why people, events, or places are significant to various individuals and groups (significance). 

Sequence objects, images, and events, or explain why some aspects change and others stay the same (continuity and change). 

Recognize the causes and consequences of events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence).

Explain why people’s beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences, and roles give them different perspectives on people, places, issues, or events (perspective).

Explain why people, events, or places are significant to various individuals and groups (significance).

Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events
Experience and interpret the local environment
Consider some environmental consequences of their actions
Represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways, such as diagrams and simple reports using digital technologies as appropriate

“Curricular Competencies are the skills, strategies, and processes that students develop over time. They reflect the ‘Do’ in the Know-Do-Understand model of curriculum. The Curricular Competencies are built on the Thinking, Communicating, and Personal and Social competencies relevant to disciplines that make up an area of learning.”

from The BC Ministry of Education’s New Curriculum