This year’s challenge opens doors for you to cover many different Big Ideas, Content and Competencies. You can your students are only limited by your imagination. Here are some examples of how some learning standards and Competencies can be covered:
Grade 1:
Primary curricular focus: Science, English Language Arts and Arts Education.
Science: Designing your Alien world
You could tell the students what type of world they need to make (for example a hot, watery planet) and have the students create the alien that is adapted to survive in this environment. Then they could create safe places for humans to visit.
- Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
- Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language, drawing, or role-play
- Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment
- Creative Thinking, Critical and Reflective Thinking, Communicating and Social Awareness and Responsibility.
Grade 2:
Primary curricular focus: Science, ADST, Mathematics and English Language Arts.
Have your students also design adults and offspring for their alien beings. When building encourage them to focus on water as part of the world they create.
- Water is essential to all living things, and it cycles through the environment.
- Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
- Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language, drawing, or role-play
Grade 3:
• Identify some simple environmental implications of their and others’ actions
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Co-operatively design projects
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways, such as diagrams and simple reports, using digital technologies as appropriate
Grade 4:
• Identify some simple environmental implications of their and others’ actions
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Co-operatively design projects
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways, such as diagrams and simple reports, using digital technologies as appropriate
Grade 5:
Science: Build their school in a way to reduce use of natural resources-maybe we run out in the future?
• the nature of sustainable practices around BC’s resources
• First Peoples
• Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
• Make observations in familiar or unfamiliar contexts
• Identify questions to answer or problems to solve through scientific inquiry
• Co-operatively design projects
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Communicate ideas, explanations, and processes in a variety of ways
Grade 6:
• Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
• Make observations in familiar or unfamiliar contexts
• Identify questions to answer or problems to solve through scientific inquiry
• Co-operatively design projects
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Communicate ideas, explanations, and processes in a variety of ways
Grade 7:
• Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
• Co-operatively design projects
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Communicate ideas, findings, and solutions to problems, using scientific language, representations, and digital technologies as appropriate
Grade 8:
• Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
• Co-operatively design projects
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Communicate ideas, findings, and solutions to problems, using scientific language, representations, and digital technologies as appropriate
Grade 9:
Science: Show how your resort is completely self sustaining
• sustainability of systems
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry
• Communicate scientific ideas, claims, information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations
• Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place
Grade 10:
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
• Contribute to finding solutions to problems at a local and/or global level through inquiry
• Communicate scientific ideas, claims, information, and perhaps a suggested course of action, for a specific purpose and audience, constructing evidence based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations
• Express and reflect on a variety of experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through place