Grade Seven (FI)

• started looking at progress on critical challenge diagnostic
• going to add into science and geography lessons, upcoming novel study
• work still to be assessed
• Discussed overarching tasks and critical inquiry question
• Discussion on whether to limit their choice of location and issue
• Looked at skills we wanted students to develop in order to help us decide if we want to limit topic choice.
• Discussed goals for this overall session: To be able of transfer this framework to other units and curriculum

-  Developed framing below.

 

 

 

Overarching Critical Challenge:

The UN has created a sustainability fund for a Natural Resources Issue. Create a Proposal and a sustainable action plan.

 

INQUIRY SUB TASKS

 

Background Knowledge

 - Natural Resources (B3. Definition, sustainable)

- Natural Resources Issues (definition- examples)
- Factors <---------------------------------------------> Natural Resources
                              Impact and significance

• Political, Social, Economic, Geographic (environmental)

 Application:   

Develop a list of natural resources (Canada and the World)

- News articles, pictures, videos: Identify the issues and the factors
- Significance of sustainability
- The rank (good, better, best)

Not sustainable                                                                      Sustainable
                                          Continuum

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• how many, how much, depth, gravity, longevity, area,
• in end plot on the line (social, economic, political, geographic)

Next Steps:
-  Bring in specific examples of locations that are struggling with sustaining a natural resources
-  Think about what strategies we will focus on teaching in the final stage of the inquiry
-  Finish creating the framework so that it is ready to be implemented into the classroom