New Unit! April – May 2024

Hello Everyone,

We are all excited to be starting a new unit!

Unit Title:  Getting Our Needs Met

Unit Concepts:  Systems –> 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 resources (renewable and non-renewable)
• Government systems
• How we use scientific knowledge to get our needs and wants met (geology, chemistry, geography)
• Community systems we create to get our needs met
• Economics and Trade
• Financial Literacy and Budgeting
• Language we use to get our needs met
• Creation of personal fitness programs to stay healthy

Core Competency Focus:  Social Responsibility, Critical Thinking

Upcoming Activities:

• Classroom Economy, Get a job!
• Trade Game to Learn World Economics
• April 10 – Rocks and Minerals Workshop with Minerals Education BC
• Cookie Mining Activity
• April 12 – Britannia Mines Trip All Day
• April 19 – Student Led Sharing Evening
• Element Superhero Creation
• Independent Project Research
• And more to come…..