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For the month of April, both the grade 5s and grade 6s will be working on projects about social justice or environmental issues. Please see below for the project details. Grade 5s will be focused more on issues that happen locally, provincially and nationally and some of the possible topics that the grade 5 students can choose from include:
- homelessness (Sudbury statistics, helping homeless people in Sudbury, Habitat for Humanity)
- child poverty (helping First Nations, Canada without Poverty)
- issues for people with disabilities
- bullying in schools
- drug addiction (services in Sudbury)
- provincial waste management/ local waste management
- deforestation and impact on animals
- safe drinking water
- pollution (Great Lakes, air pollution, graphs)
- using more renewable energy (animal friendly)
- climate change (water, impacts)
- public transportation in Sudbury (cycling, decline in riders)
- refugees (Syrian refugees in Canada, where other Canadian refugees come from)
- poverty (PLAN Canada, Free the Children, UNICEF Canada)
- child soldiers
- natural disasters (Canadian Red Cross)
- pandemic illnesses like H1N1, SARS, ebola and zika
- child labour (theirworld)
- civil war (Free the Children in Sierra Leone, warchild, Doctors without Borders)
- deforestation and impact on animals
- safe drinking water (Ryan's Well Foundation)
- pollution (Great Lakes, air pollution, graphs)
- using more renewable energy (animal friendly)
- climate change (water, impacts)
- habitat protection of migrating species (Ecojustice.ca, Nature Conservatory Canada, Canadian Wildlife Conservatory)
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Grade 5: Government and Responsible Citizenship
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Grade 5s will explore issues that affect us at all levels of government. Students will learn who is responsible for the services we use every day, from potholes to libraries to schools to health care.
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Grade 6: Canada's Interactions with the Global Community
We will approach this unit as Catholics, looking at how Canada interacts with the world with a social justice lens. We have already discussed issues about poverty and human rights as part of our study of the virtue of the month for justice in November, but we will go further in this unit as we look into policies that our nation has in place to help others.
We will look at a number of current events that illustrate how Canada works with other countries and how Canadians are viewed around the world. For example, we talked about Justin Trudeau's first meeting with Donald Trump and what NAFTA means by reading this Globe and Mail article and watching the attached video. |
Exploring our histories
Grade 6 students will be coming home to ask questions about their ancestry. We've talked about the push factors that may have forced their ancestors to leave another country and also the pull factors that attracted their families to Canada or to the Sudbury region. Meanwhile, the grade 5 students completed personal timelines that traced their own 10 year histories.
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Grade 5: FIRST NATIONS AND EUROPEANS IN NEW FRANCE AND EARLY CANADA
We will start to look at the First Nations and what their lives were like prior to the arrival of the French in the 1700s. We will talk about some of the issues facing First Nations people today and make connections between the conflicts of the past and what impact they had on the present. Please see document below for the final assignments, due on Tuesday, December 6.
first_nations_contact_with_europeans.docx | |
File Size: | 48 kb |
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Grade 6: HERITAGE AND IDENTITY: COMMUNITIES IN CANADA, PAST AND PRESENT
With the grade 6s we will also start by looking at our First Nations people and explore their culture so that we can compare it to other Canadian cultures. We will talk about Canadian identity and what it means to be Canadian. Students will come home with questions about their heritage and what impact their ancestors have had on Canada and Sudbury. Please see document below for the final assignments, due on Tuesday, December 6.
attawapiskat.docx | |
File Size: | 56 kb |
File Type: | docx |