We wrapped up our Science units on Energy Conservation (Grade 5) and Electricity (Grade 6) and are now moving on to exploring Social Studies. So many neat lines of inquiry to follow! Grade 5s will be learning all about Canadian Government and Citizenship and 6s will be learning about Canada and the Global Community. We kicked off these units with a super cool visit with the Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson right in our own classroom! He shared with us his experience of municipal government and how he and his team help people in our Ottawa community. Check out the photo below of our class with Mayor Watson and click this link to see his tweet about his visit to Kanata Highlands. Grade 5 parents, read about the upcoming below. Grade 6 parents, scroll a little further... and then you'll see what your children will be learning! So what are the Grade 5s going to be learning? Here are their BIG unit questions (you can see them posted in the classroom on the right):
We started our unit by looking at four different issues that are happening in Canadian Indigenous communities where the rights of children and adults are not being respected.
While we are learning about these four different issues happening in Canada, we are also learning about different types of government we have here. You can review this video below about three of the different types of government we have in Canada. Warning... the song is SUPER CATCHY!! Seriously. You'll be singing it all night. And what are the Grade 6s going to be learning?
You can see their questions posted in the classroom on the right. We kicked off our unit by looking back at human rights that we saw in Grade 5. We are relating this to learning about refugees - what it means to seek refuge, why some people need to, and what we can do to help. Students are working through four centres, using different artifacts to support their learning:
You might like to watch Missy Higgins' music video (from our first centre) for her song Oh Canada, which summarizes part of Alan Kurdi's story, as well as her perspective on what Canada could have done differently. I'm looking forward to continuing this learning with the 5s and 6s!
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