{"id":7197,"date":"2024-04-04T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:15:21","slug":"new-unit-april-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2024\/04\/04\/new-unit-april-may-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"New Unit!  April &#8211; May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>We are all excited to be starting a new unit!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unit Title:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Getting Our Needs Met<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unit Concepts:<\/strong>\u00a0 Systems &#8211;&gt; Interdependence<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unit Focus Statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Humans create and use a variety of systems, tools, and scientific knowledge to get their needs and wants met.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Inquiry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The nature of needs versus wants<\/li>\n<li>Our use, management, and conservation of natural resources (renewable and non-renewable)<\/li>\n<li>Government systems<\/li>\n<li>How we use scientific knowledge to get our needs and wants met (geology, chemistry, geography)<\/li>\n<li>Community systems we create to get our needs met<\/li>\n<li>Economics and Trade<\/li>\n<li>Financial Literacy and Budgeting<\/li>\n<li>Language we use to get our needs met<\/li>\n<li>Creation of personal fitness programs to stay healthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Core Competency Focus:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Social Responsibility, Critical Thinking<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Classroom Economy, Get a job!<\/li>\n<li>Trade Game to Learn World Economics<\/li>\n<li>April 10 &#8211; Rocks and Minerals Workshop with Minerals Education BC<\/li>\n<li>Cookie Mining Activity<\/li>\n<li>April 12 &#8211; Britannia Mines Trip All Day<\/li>\n<li>April 19 &#8211; Student Led Sharing Evening<\/li>\n<li>Element Superhero Creation<\/li>\n<li>Independent Project Research<\/li>\n<li>And more to come&#8230;..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone, We are all excited to be starting a new unit! Unit Title:\u00a0\u00a0Getting Our Needs Met Unit Concepts:\u00a0 Systems &#8211;&gt; Interdependence Unit Focus Statement: Humans create and use a variety of systems, tools, and scientific knowledge to get their needs and wants met. Areas of Inquiry: The nature of needs versus wants Our use, management, and conservation of natural<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}