Stream to Sea curriculum connections
Core competencies
- Communication: acquire, interpret, collaborate, connect and engage, reflect, present
- Creative thinking: novelty and values, generating and developing ideas
- Critical thinking: develop and design, question and investigate, analyze and critique
- Positive personal and cultural identity: personal values and choices, personal strengths and abilities
- Social responsibility: contributing to community and caring for the environment, building relationships
Science K-9 curricular competencies
- Experience and interpret
- The local environment
- Questioning and predicting
- Planning and conducting
- Processing and analyzing data and information
- Evaluating
- Applying and innovating
- Communicating
| Grade | Science K-9 big ideas | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | Plants and animals have observable features. Daily and seasonal changes affect all living things. |
Basic needs; features and Indigenous use of plants and animals. Changes that living things make to accommodate seasonal changes. |
| Grade 1 | Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment. | Behavioural adaptations of animals in their local environment. |
| Grade 2 | All living things have a lifecycle. Water is essential to all life and cycles through the environment. |
Similarities and differences between offspring and parents. Indigenous knowledge of life cycles. Water sources/watersheds/water cycle, water is a limited resource. |
| Grade 3 | All life is diverse, can be grouped, and interacts in its ecosystem. Wind, water and ice change the shape of the land. |
Biodiversity and Indigenous knowledge of ecosystems. Observable changes in the local environment caused by erosion and deposition by wind, water and ice. |
| Grade 4 | All life is interdependent on its environment. | The ways organisms in ecosystems sense and respond to their environment. |
| Grade 5 | Humans use earth materials as natural resources. Multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact within their environment. |
Basic structures and functions of body systems. Local types of earth materials. Indigenous concept of inter-connectedness in the environment. The nature of sustainable practices around BC’s living and non-living resources. |
| Grade 6 | Multicellular organisms rely on internal systems to survive, reproduce and interact with their environment. |
Basic structures and functions of body systems (musculoskeletal, reproductive, hormonal, nervous). Newton’s three laws of motion. Force of gravity. |
| Grade 7 | The theory of evolution by natural selection provides an explanation for the diversity and survival of living things. The Earth and its climate have changed over geologic time. |
Natural selection; survival needs and interactions between organisms. Evidence of climate change over geological time and the recent impact of humans. |
| Grade 8 | Cells are a basic unit of life. | Characteristics of life. |
| Grade 9 | The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected and matter cycles and energy flows through them. | Asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction. Sustainability of systems and Indigenous principles of interconnectedness. |
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