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Social, ethical and sustainability considerations impact design.
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Complex tasks require the sequencing of skills.
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Complex tasks require different tools and technologies at different stages.
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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 strengthens our understanding and acquisition of French.
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We can have meaningful conversations about things that are important to us in French.
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Stories give us unique ways to interpret and share knowledge thoughts, and feelings.
- Storytelling, Identity, and First Nations’ Culture (Grade 8-10)
Francophone creative works are an expression of Francophone culture.
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Acquiring French provides opportunities to explore our own and cultural identity from a new perspective.
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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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The principles and processes underlying operations with numbers apply equally to algebraic situations and can be described and analyzed.
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Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with rational numbers.
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Continuous linear relations can be identified and represented in many connected ways to identify regularities and make generalizations.
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Similar shapes have proportional relationships that can be described, measured and compared.
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Analyzing the validity, reliability, and representation of data 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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Emerging ideas and ideologies profoundly influence societies and events.
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The physical environment influences the nature of political, social, and economic change.
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Disparities in power alter the balance of relationships between individuals and between societies.
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Collective identity is constructed and can change over time.
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Cells are derived from cells.
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The electron arrangement of atoms impacts their chemical nature.
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Electric current is the flow of electric charge.
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The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.
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Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through arts experiences.
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The arts provide opportunity to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people form a variety of times, places and cultures.
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Dance, drama, music and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.
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Creative arts experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
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Identity is explored, expressed and impacted through dance experiences.
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Dance provides opportunity to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people form a variety of times, places and cultures.
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Dance uses a unique sensory language for creating and communicating.
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Collaborative dance experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
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Identity is explored, expressed and impacted through drama experiences.
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Drama provides opportunity to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people form a variety of times, places and cultures.
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Drama uses a unique sensory language for creating and communicating.
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Collaborative drama experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
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Identity is explored, expressed and impacted through music experiences.
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Music provides opportunity to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people form a variety of times, places and cultures.
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Music uses a unique sensory language for creating and communicating.
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Collaborative music experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
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Identity is explored, expressed and impacted through visual arts experiences.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)
Visual Arts provides opportunity to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people form a variety of times, places and cultures.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)
Visual Arts uses a unique sensory language for creating and communicating.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)
Art experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
- Visual Arts Units | Gordon Smith Gallery (Grade K-12)