Week 3

 

This week's goal will focus on understanding the facts, feelings and actions related to the real world problem of plastic consumption and production. Students will first look at the various plastic use surrounding their lives, on a national scale, and a global perspective. Students will then investigate facts regarding over consumption and production of plastic in their lives by watching video clips, exploring news articles, and online research. Students will work with various facts and data with percentages, fractions and decimal numbers while understanding the negative impact that plastic can affect our environment such as ocean and lifeforms.

 

• Day 1- 5 : Understanding the plastic production and consumption

  • Global problems of plastic production and consumption

  • Know various solutions to reduce plastic consumption and production

  • Online resources/ videos

  • Worksheet, guided notes, checklists

  • Classroom scavenger hunt for plastics around school

  • Adding elements to previous mind maps: either on paper or using digital tools

  • Introduce to bottle cap collecting task for final mural making task. Have students start collecting bottle caps.

  • Learning Blog reflections of learning

 

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Students will continue to develop number sense through deeply analyzing and studying data, facts, and proportions about populations/countries around the world, and at their local school, looking at its significance relating to specifically chosen SDG goals about sustainability.

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Number Sense Outcomes:

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals to solve problems relating to the SDGs

3. Solve problems involving percents from 1% to 100% relating to all the SDGs and their development

4. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between positive terminating decimals and positive fractions and between positive repeating decimals and positive fractions.

5. Demonstrate an understanding of adding and subtracting positive fractions and mixed numbers, with like and unlike denominators, concretely, pictorially and symbolically (limited to positive sums and differences).

6. Demonstrate an understanding of addition and subtraction of integers, concretely, pictorially and symbolically through SDG themed activities.

7. Compare and order positive fractions, positive decimals (to thousandths) and whole numbers by using: benchmarks, place value, equivalent fractions and/or decimals.

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Patterns and Relations Outcomes:

Students will use patterns to model, describe and solve problems relating to plastic consumption around the world and their school. Students will represent their findings through algebraic expressions in multiple ways

1. Demonstrate an understanding of oral and written patterns and their equivalent linear relations.

2.Create a table of values from a linear relation, graph the table of values, and analyze the graph to draw conclusions and solve problems.

3. Demonstrate an understanding of preservation of equality by:

•        Modelling preservation of equality, concretely, pictorially and symbolically

•        Applying preservation of equality to solve equations

4. Explain the difference between an expression and an equation.

5. Evaluate an expression, given the value of the variable(s)

6. Model and solve, concretely, pictorially and symbolically, problems that can be represented by one-step linear equations of the form x + a = b, where a and b are integers.

7.Model and solve, concretely, pictorially and symbolically, problems that can be represented by linear equations of the form:

•        ax + b = c

•        ax = b

•        x/b=a, a≠ 0

where a, b and c are whole numbers.

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Statistics and Probability:

Students will explore past and present data treads, and their progression to analyze and predict in order to solve real world problems relating to specific SDGs regarding their school community.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of central tendency and range by:

•        Determining the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and range

•        Determining the most appropriate measures of central tendency to report findings.

2. Determine the effect on the mean, median and mode when an outlier is included in a data set.

3. Construct, label and interpret circle graphs to solve problems.

4. Express probabilities as ratios, fractions and percent

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