CURRICULUM


CLIMATE CHANGE: EVERY ACTION COUNTS


Tis curriculum insert accompanies the ETFO webcast An Overview of Climate Change for K-8 Educators with a Focus on Assessment. It was developed by members for members. Te webcast is accompanied by 4 lesson plans, which are available to down- load. Reproducibles are available in French or English at members.etfo.ca.


SUGGESTED GRADE LEVELS: Full-Day Kindergarten/Grade 1


KEY CONCEPTS/BIG IDEAS:


Climate change and climate action, what each individual person can do to make a difference, and what we can do together.


FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM (2016)


Demonstrating Literacy Behaviours


• Communicating thoughts and feelings, through gestures, physical movements, words, symbols, and representations, as well as through the use of a variety of materials.


• Literacy behaviours, evident in the vari- ous ways they use language, images, and materials to express and think critically about ideas and emotions, as they listen and speak, view and represent, and begin to read and write.


Environmental Education (In Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow: A Policy Framework for Environmental Education in Ontario Schools, 2009)


• Promote learning about environmental issues and solutions.


• Engage children in practising and pro- moting environmental stewardship, both at school, and in the community.


GRADE 1 LANGUAGE CURRICULUM (2023)


Listening Strategies for Comprehension


B1.2 identify and use listening strategies before, during, and aſter listening to com- prehend information communicated orally and non-verbally


Speaking Purposes and Strategies


B1.3 identify the purpose and audience for speaking in formal and informal contexts, and use appropriate speaking strategies, including taking turns, understanding when to speak, and knowing how much to say, to communicate clearly and coherently


Vocabulary


B2.7 demonstrate an understanding of commonly used words, acquire and use explicitly taught vocabulary in various


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contexts, including other subject areas, and use their developing morphological knowledge to analyze and understand new words in context


D1. Developing Ideas and Organizing Content plan, develop ideas, gather infor- mation, and organize content for creating texts of various forms, including digital and media texts, on a variety of topics


GRADE 1 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM (2022)


B. Life Systems


Needs and Characteristics of Living Things


B1.1 Describe changes or problems that could result from the loss of living and nonliving things that are part of everyday life, while taking different perspectives into consideration.


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