Title: Survival of the Fittest

Grade 3
Lens: Survival
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
Investigating change and the diversity of earth’s systems to help us develop understanding the conditions necessary to sustain life.

Language Arts:
Guiding Questions:
1) How do texts help me to construct meaning?
2) How does following an inquiry process help me gather, organize, and evaluate information from texts in the construction of meaning?
3) How can language be used to speak up for myself and one another?
(PK):
- analyze evidence from texts, personal experiences, and one another to support meaning of texts
- describe how personal experiences influence responses to texts
- choose appropriate forms of self-expression to fit the situation
- choose respectful language when advocating for oneself and one another
- identify with the feelings and actions of one another

(CK):
- Personal experiences and background knowledge of self and one another supports the construction of meaning
- Inquiry can support problem solving and discovery of new ideas
- The inquiry process includes various steps
- Information about a chosen topic can be collected from a variety of sources, including people, land, books, or digital texts
- There are different techniques to use when speaking up for oneself and one another (advocating)
- There are different forms for speaking up for oneself and one another
- Speaking up for oneself or one another helps to build a sense of belonging
- Unique stories of self, home, family, community, and culture shape an awareness of self
- Compassion is feeling sympathetic toward one another
- Being open to another’s views requires compassion
- Kinship involves sharing roles and responsibilities
- First Nations, Metis, and Inuit texts can depict roles and responsibilities
- Each person’s participation in a group is important

Science:
Guiding Questions:
1) How do the characteristics of living things help them to survive?
(PK):
- Generate questions that can be investigated
- Record detailed observations of plant and animal characteristics using digital and non-digital technologies
- Carry out a scientific investigation related to how characteristics of plants and animals enable survival
- Analyze characteristics that enable plants to obtain the resources needed for survival and growth, including plant shape, root systems, leaf
arrangements, leaf shapes, and texture
- Investigate the environment safely and responsibly with minimal disruption to plants and animals
- Many living things depend on plants for food and oxygen
- Some living things depend on plants for habitats
- Animals have distinct characteristics related to sensing, eating, movement (locomotion), and protection to survive
- There is variety in animals (biodiversity)
- Scientists use classification as way of grouping plants and animals with similar characteristics
- Plants and animals have a variety of ways to get what is needed to live and grow
- A scientific investigation provides a systematic way to answer questions about the world
- Scientific investigations involve asking questions, predicting, collecting and analyzing data, making inferences, and sharing new learning
- Scientists use a variety of methods, tools, and technologies to observe, measure, and collect samples safely with minimal disruption to the
environment
- Safety is an important part of investigating different characteristics of plants and animals
- First Nations, Metis, and Inuit use stories to share how the characteristics of plants and animals help with survival
- First Nations, Metis, and Inuit have a variety of methods for classifying plants and animals
- record detailed observations of plant and animal characteristics using digital and non-digital technologies
- carry out a scientific investigation related to how characteristics of plants and animals enable survival
- analyze characteristics that enable plants to obtain the resources needed for survival and growth, including plant shape, root systems, leaf
arrangements, leaf shapes, and texture
- classify plants and animals according to distinct characteristics

(CK):
- All living things need water to survive
- suitable soil conditions, light, water, and air are needed for plants to grow and survive
- many living things depend on plants for food and oxygen
- some living things depend on plants for habitats
- animals have distinct characteristics related to sensing, eating, movement (locomotion), and protection to survive
- there is variety in plants (biodiversity)
- there is variety in animals (biodiversity)
- scientists use classification as a way of grouping plants and animals with similar characteristics
 - plants and animals have a variety of ways to get what is needed to live and grow
- a scientific investigation provides a systematic way to answer questions about the world
- scientific investigations involve asking questions, predicting, collecting and analyzing data, making inferences, and sharing new learning
- scientists use a variety of methods, tools, and technologies to observe, measure, and collect samples safely with minimal
disruption to the environment
- safety is an important part of investigating different characteristics of plants and animals
- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit use stories to share how the characteristics of plants and animals help with survival
- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit have a variety of methods for classifying plants and animals
- seasonal activities of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities are affected by weather and the water cycle

Health and Wellness:

Guiding Questions:
1) Why is it important to demonstrate perseverance while engaged in challenging physical activity?
2) How can healthy growth and development be supported?
3) How can preparation and practice support personal safety?
4) Why is it more important to know myself and manage my emotions?
(PK):
- Solve problems to nurture relationships between self and one another in physical activities
- Practise roles, including follower, leader, and teammate in physical activity
- Demonstrate when and how to ask for help
- Investigate sources of food, including traditional First Nations, Metis and Inuit food sources
- Investigate food preparation and preservation of food sources, including First Nations, Metis, and Inuit traditional practices

(CK):
- simple tactics are adapted to facilitate individual and group success
- recognize of personal strengths, abilities, and skills builds confidence
- being physically fit adds to overall health and well-being

Social:
Guiding Questions:
1) How can our actions affect relationships with land and place?
(PK):
- Investigating and discussing differences in the costs of goods and services in communities
- Identifying and discussing shared experiences that shape identities, including those of First Nations, Metis and Inuit and Francophone and diverse
settler groups.
- gather information from primary sources, including the stories of Elders, knowledge keepers, and other community members
- sequence events over time over time that represent contributions made by individuals and groups to local and surrounding communities

(CK):
- Individuals and groups in local surrounding communities address their needs in various ways.
- First Nations, Metis and Inuit have made contributions to local and surrounding communities
- Primary sources can provide information and knowledge about the past
- Evidence of contributions by individuals and groups builds understanding of the past and present

Math:
Guiding Questions:
1) How can we interpret data?
(PK):
- Order numbers using benchmarks on a visual or spatial representation
- creating and solving problems that involve addition and subtraction
- relating time to human and seasonal cycles, including First Nations medicine wheels
Medicine Wheel resource/ Art
- formulate relevant questions to collect first hand data
- organize first hand or second hand data using tables, tally marks, and line plots
-select appropriate standard units and tools to measure, record, and compare length, width, height and mass

(CK):
-a visual or spatial representation of quantity can be extended to include larger numbers, up to 1000, and does not have to start at 0
-estimation can be used in problem-solving situations, including when an exact value is not needed or to verify a solution
-knowledge of single-digit addition and subtraction number facts is used to add and subtract larger numbers
-a clock is a tool for measuring time based on cycles
-First Nations, Metis, and Inuit relate time to human life cycles and seasons
-data can be used to answer questions
-graphs and tables are ways to organize, communicate and facilitate the interpretation of data
-measuring is a process of comparing attributes using units and tools

Arts:
Guiding Questions:
1) How can artistic choice strengthen communication and expression of self, ideas, and experiences through art?
(PK):
- Create art by making experimental and informed artistic choices
- Explore a variety of art genres and movements for evidence of artistic choice
- Make connections to personal experiences when responding to art
- Express ideas by making artistic choices
- Investigate how First Nations, Metis, and Inuit art reflects diverse cultural experiences and communities
- Share how dramatizations provide a way to connect with the points of view of varying characters

(CK):
- Artists can make experimental and informed choices during the creative processes
- Responses to art can be related to personal experiences
- First Nations, Metis and Inuit art reflects diverse cultural experiences and communities
- The art of Francophone, local and other cultures reflects diverse cultural experiences and communities
- Drama provides a way of making connections with the diverse points of view of varying characters
Resources:

Novels:
I Survived series
Charlotte's Web
Henry’s Freedom Box - Ellen Levine

Picture Books:
Wild by Emily Hughes
The Journey by Francesca Sanna
Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
Who would Win Series
What if you had Animal Eyes?/ What if you had Animal Ears?

Framework Plan:
Introduction Using: Who Would Win?
- Class set?? -- Grizzly vs. Polar Bears

Social Studies Pull -- grizzly (and other animals) -- First Nations use of the grizzly/ Inuit use of polar bear
- Means of survival using animals

Science Pull --

LA Pull -- writing to persuade or educate re conservation/ endangerment

Math Pull --
- Growing plants/ measuring heights
- Researching life expectancy/ analyze
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End Project --
Students use their own Who Would Win?
- Must include all the features of the book
- Must analyze the plants and animal adaptations for survival
 Final Project Rubric
Investigating change and the diversity of earth’s systems to help us develop understanding the conditions necessary to sustain life.

Academic Area Consistently Frequently Sometimes Rarely

Science
Explain how the
characteristics of plants
and animals contribute to
survival.

Social
How do our actions affect
relationships with land and
place?

Math
How can I use data to
show growth of an animal,
comparison to other
animals and population
trends?

Wellness
What resources and tactics
does the animal have to
survive?
Why are these important?

Art
Using art to effectively
communicate the survival
of your animal

Language Arts
Able to use the inquiry
process to effectively
communicate who would
win