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Grade 1
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Organizing Idea: Matter: Understandings of the physical world are deepened by investigating matter and energy.
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Guiding Question: How can properties of an object be altered?
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Learning Outcome: Students analyze properties of objects and investigate how they can be changed.
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Knowledge
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Measurable properties of objects include length, how much flat space an object covers (area), weight (mass)
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Weight is the heaviness of an object.
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Tools, such as balance scales and magnifying glasses, can be used to examine properties of objects and materials.
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Understanding
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Objects have measurable properties.
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Skills & Procedures
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Identify measurable properties of objects.
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Directly compare the length, area, and weight of various objects.
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Use various tools safely when examining the properties of objects.
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Knowledge
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Properties that can be changed include length, area, weight (mass), shape, texture.
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Actions that physically change properties of an object include bending, twisting, stretching, cutting, breaking.
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Not all objects respond the same way to bending, twisting, stretching, cutting, or breaking.
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Understanding
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Physical changes to objects do not change what the objects are made of.
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Skills & Procedures
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Predict how actions can physically change properties of various objects.
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Explore actions that physically change properties of various objects.
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Describe physical changes that result from various actions.
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Discuss why physical changes do not change what an object is made of.
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Organizing Idea: Energy: Understandings of the physical world are deepened by investigating matter and energy.
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Guiding Question: How can movement of objects and animals be understood?
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Learning Outcome: Students investigate direction, pathway, and speed of moving objects and animals.
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Knowledge
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Directions of movement can be described as up, down, forward, backward, sideways, toward, away from.
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A movement pathway is the path an object or animal follows when it moves.
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Movement pathways can be described as straight, curved, spiral, side to side.
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Objects or animals move along pathways in a variety of ways, such as rolling, bouncing, sliding.
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Speed can be described as fast, slow, changing, not changing.
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Understanding
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Movement consists of direction, a pathway, and speed.
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Skills & Procedures
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Observe and describe the direction, pathway, and speed of objects or animals.
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Conduct an investigation to determine how objects move.
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Describe and record ways objects or animals move along different pathways.
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Knowledge
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The movement of objects can be influenced by the shape of the object, the materials the object is made from, the surface texture of the object, interactions with other objects.
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Wheels can make objects easier to move.
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Understanding
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The movement of objects can be influenced in a variety of ways.
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Skills & Procedures
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Demonstrate how the movement of objects can be influenced.
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Organizing Idea: Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
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Guiding Question: In what ways can environments change?
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Learning Outcome: Students analyze environments and investigate interactions and changes.
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Knowledge
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The four seasons in Alberta are summer, autumn or fall, winter, spring.
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Some places have fewer than four seasons, such as two seasons: rainy and dry, three seasons: cool or cold, rainy, and dry.
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Many seasonal changes appear in environments, such as snow covering the ground, snow melting, the surface of lakes and other bodies of water freezing, rivers flowing fast or slow.
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Seasonal changes appear in plants and animals, such as camouflage in animals leaves changing colour and falling flowers blooming crops and plants greening and growing
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Understanding
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Changes in environments include seasonal changes.
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Skills & Procedures
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Observe seasonal changes in local environments over time.
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Document signs of seasonal change over time.
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Share personal experiences related to seasons.
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Discuss how changes in the appearance of environments, plants, and animals are related to the seasons.
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Represent an environment in different seasons to show environmental changes.
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Knowledge
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Migration is the regular movement patterns of animals from one area to another, usually in response to seasonal changes.
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Many animals migrate, such as whales, geese, polar bears, butterflies, caribou.
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Hibernation allows animals to survive the winter with little or no food, usually by sleeping for long periods of time.
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Many animals hibernate in winter, such as black bears and grizzly bears, groundhogs, some types of squirrels.
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Environments can undergo sudden changes, such as storms, floods, fires, winds.
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Understanding
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Seasonal or sudden changes can affect the behavior of animals.
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Skills & Procedures
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Investigate animal behavior throughout the seasons, including migration and hibernation.
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Share personal experiences related to sudden changes in environments.
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Knowledge
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Information can be gathered from environments using the senses.
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Understanding
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Environments are observed and understood using the senses.
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Skills & Procedures
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Describe various environments, drawing from information gathered using the senses.
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Knowledge
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Seasonal changes may affect a variety of choices and activities, such as clothing choices, recreational activities, Indigenous ceremonies, hunting and gathering.
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Understanding
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Seasonal changes influence decisions about daily activities.
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Skills & Procedures
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Describe how seasonal changes affect decisions about daily activities.
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Knowledge
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The responsibility to care for environments is shared by all people and is fulfilled by showing respect for and protecting all aspects of nature.
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For First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, a sense of responsibility toward nature can be connected to place and traditional teachings for future generations, such as taking only what is needed.
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Understanding
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Caring for nature comes from a sense of responsibility.
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Skills & Procedures
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Discuss benefits of spending time in nature.
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Identify personal and group actions that demonstrate responsibility and care for nature.
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Discuss and reflect on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit traditional teachings that demonstrate a sense of responsibility to care for nature.
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Organizing Idea: Living Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
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Guiding Question: How do plants and animals survive?