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Curriculum Links: Saskatchewan

Please scroll down this page for provincial curriculum links for a range of Kids Who Care activities.

Grade level and subject area

Expectations
(source: Saskatchewan Learning)

Applicable Kids Who Care activity

Found in section:

Gr 4

Social Studies

(Making Decisions for Change)

Students will know that:

. decisions often result in change.

. change is an integral part of our lives.

Students will:

• identify decisions that resulted in change.

• make decisions.

• value decisions made for positive changes.

Two West African Communities

Chain of Events

Planting Trees to Hold Back the Desert

Community

Trees

Deserts

Gr.5:

Social Studies

(People Make Decisions)

Students will know that:

• Canadians have rights and responsibilities

• people make decisions for change according to changing needs and wants

Students will:

• identify and apply rights and responsibilities .

• practice decision making

• value rights and responsibilities

Write Your Own Rights Convention

Rights Action Plan

Wants vs. Needs

Needs to Rights

The 4 Bs of Rights

Opinion Game

Take Action Around the World

Making a Project Work

Rights of the Child Activities

Gr 6

Social Studies

Unit 4: Interdependence

Students will gain the following understandings:

. Interdependence involves a sharing relationship.

. Global interdependence may or may not act to the advantage of the countries involved.

. Decisions regarding interdependent relationships involve a variety of complex factors.

. Interdependence involves both rights and responsibilities.

Students will develop and/or practice the following skills and abilities:

• Locate and gather information from a variety of sources.

• Organize and present ideas and information.

• Relate current events to the concepts under study.

Students will demonstrate behaviour that reflects the following values:

• An appreciation for the importance of cooperative relationships.

• An understanding of the diversity of roles that various countries and people play in interdependent relationships.

• A commitment to understand and help deal with global issues.

What do You Know About Africa?

Take Action Around the World

Whose News?

Wants vs. Needs

Needs to Rights

The 4 Bs of Rights

Inspirational Projects from Around the World

Create Your Own Media

Take Action Around the World

Write A Press Release

Whose News?

Two to Tango

What do You Know About Africa?

Inspirational Projects From Around the World

Global Education Events

Write Your Own Rights Convention

Rights Action Plan

Science (all grades)

Dimensions in Scientific Literacy

The acquisition and ordering of data are the basis for theories which, in turn, can be used to explain many things and events. In some cases these data have immediate practical applications of value to humankind.

Our survival depends on our ability to sustain the essential balance of nature. There is intrinsic beauty to be found in nature.

Make a Sand Filter

Make An Acid Finder

The Importance of Plant Cover

The Disappearing-Reappearing Forest

Planting Trees to Hold Back the Desert

Water

Deserts

Trees

Gr 6

Science

Educators:

. encourage and assist students to create questions about what is around them;

. give students an opportunity to explore and to discover answers to the questions they create; and,

. ask students to analyze, compare, and evaluate the answers they discover.

Tree Scientist

What is Soil?

Chain of Events

Trees

Deserts

Trees

Gr 4 - 6

Fine Arts

By participating in the Arts Education program, students will:

• respect the uniqueness and creativity of themselves and others

• increase their ability to express themselves through languages other than spoken or written language

• understand the contributions of the arts and artists to societies and cultures, past and present

• gain a lasting appreciation of art forms experienced as participant and as audience

• recognize the many connections between the arts and daily life.

Have I Got a Story to Tell You!

Ankle Shakers

Trees as a Source of Life and Knowledge

Have I Got a Story to Tell You!

Looking Out from the Inside

Gr 4 - 5 :

English

Language Arts

(Common Curriculum Framework)

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to:

• explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

• comprehend and respond personally and critically to literary and media texts

• manage ideas and information

• enhance the clarity and artistry of communication

• celebrate and build community.

foundational objectives

Students will:

1. Listen to, read, and view a range of grade-level appropriate oral, print, and other media texts in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes; and speak, write, and represent to express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences.

2. Learn about and practise the skills and strategies of effective listeners, speakers, readers, writers, viewers, and representers.

What do You Know About Africa?

Take Action Around the World

Create Your Own Media/Making News Happen

Two to Tango

Have I Got a Story to Tell You!

Making News Happen

Local Heroes

Gr 6:

English Language Arts

Goals of the Language Arts program (Middle Level)

• to develop students' English language abilities as a function of their thinking abilities

• to promote personal and social development by extending students' knowledge and use of the English language

• to encourage enjoyment of and develop proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing

Write a Press Release

Create Your Own Media/Local Heroes

Create A Radio Program

Create Your Own Media

Write a Press Release

Take Action Around the World

Global Education Events

Making a Project Work

Share My World

Trees As a Source of Life and Knowledge

Have I Got a Story to Tell You!

Local Heroes

Take Action Around the World

Gr 4-5

Physical education

Educational Games:

Students learn to:

• create, modify, adapt, analyze and explain simple games using Basic Movement Patterns

• create, modify, adapt, analyze and explain simple games using Movement Variables of Body, Space, Effort and Relationships

• demonstrate an increasing awareness of the Movement Variables when performing game skills activities

• select and combine locomotor and non-locomotor skills when creating in game activities

• use critical thinking and problem solving skills to create and modify competitive and cooperative games

Bucket Relay

Water

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