Individual Big Ecological Ideas
GRADE 1: Big Ecological Idea
#1: Practicing the 3Rs keeps materials useful, reduces waste and helps the environment.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Understanding Structures and Mechanism
GRADE 2: Big Ecological Idea
#1: Clean air and clean water are very important for the health of all living things...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Understanding Matter and Energy/Earth and Space Systems
GRADE 3: Big Ecological Idea
#1: Waste from a community affects that community’s natural environment.
#2: Early Canadian settlers’ communities had a much smaller effect on the environment…
#3: Composting is a way to…nourish the soil
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Understanding Earth and Space Systems
SOCIAL STUDIES: Canada and World Connections/Heritage and Citizenship
GRADE 4: Big Ecological Idea
#1: Materials used in the production and construction of the things we use (inputs) and their disposal (outputs) alter the landscape.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Understanding Earth and Space Systems
GRADE 5: Big Ecological Idea
#1: The Earth is a closed system in terms of matter.
#2: Recycling and composting help redirect waste materials to appropriate new uses.
#3: Choosing household products with care can ensure that their use or disposal does not put toxic ingredients into the environment.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Understanding Matter and Energy
GRADE 6: Big Ecological Idea
#1: International trade had advantages for people-but comes with harmful environmental impacts.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Canada and World Connections
GRADE 7: Big Ecological Idea
#1: In nature there is no waste. Composting can help us recycle our organic waste the way nature does-and improve the health of the soil.
#2: Our production and disposal of waste materials affect the balance of local ecosystems
by affecting air, water and land.
#3: Sustainability means living our lives within the tolerances of the Earth’s ecosystems…
#4: Life cycle analysis examines the environmental impacts of goods….
#5: Mixtures and solutions can have an impact on the environment… .
#6: Sustainable development…”meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Understanding Structures and Mechanisms/Life Systems/Matter and Energy/Earth and Space systems
GEOGRAPHY: Natural Resources
GRADE 8: Big Ecological Idea
#1: Informed consumers can have a positive impact on the environment by making wise
purchasing choices.
#2: Our economy and society are dependent upon a healthy environment…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Understanding Structures and Mechanisms
HISTORY CANADA: A Changing Society
GEOGRAPHY: Economic Systems |
