CURRICULUM TIES
GRADE 7
Group Action
ACTIVITY:
Students will choose a community initiative or issue and will work collaboratively as a class to take action. The freedom should be given to the students to select a project which they have an emotional, vested interest in. From there, they will work together to bring awareness, raise funds, gain volunteers or create some kind of program to make a difference.
EXAMPLES:
-Rallying school volunteers for Santa's Annonymus
-A donation drive for the local food bank
-Raising awarness about extinct animals
OBJECTIVE:
Students continue to develop self efficacy as they take action to make change on an issue to which they have an emotional response. Here, students learn to act when they see injustice as opposed to developing peralysis on issues. Students will work together to make this change, continuing to build their collaborative skills.
RESOURCES:
The Mustard Seed Edmonton Site
ACTIVITY
Grade 7 - Critically address how intense urbanization brings about challenges for the agricultural sustainability in Canada, for both the communities and the individuals in these communities, and the effect that you, as an individual can have in changing or easing these challenges
OUTCOMES:
SOCIAL
7.S.1 develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
• determine the validity of information based on context, bias, source, objectivity, evidence and/or reliability to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
• evaluate, critically, ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
• demonstrate the ability to analyze local and current affairs
• re-evaluate personal opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
• generate creative ideas and strategies in individual and group activities
7.S.4 demonstrate skills of decision making and problem solving:
• predict outcomes of decision-making and problem-solving scenarios from multiple perspectives
• propose and apply new ideas and strategies, supported with facts and reasons, to contribute to problem solving and decision making
OUTCOMES:
SOCIAL
Skills and Processes - 7.S.1., 7.S.6., 7.S.7., 7.S.8.
Values and Attitudes - 7.2.3.
Knowledge and Understanding - 7.2.7.