Exploring Egg Farming in Ontario

BC – Belonging & Contributing
SRWB – Self-Regulation and Wellbeing
DLMB – Demonstrating Literacy & Mathematics Behaviours
PSI – Problem Solving & Innovating

4. Demonstrate an ability to use problem-solving skills in a variety of contexts, including social contexts.
BC, SRWB, PSI

10. Demonstrate literacy behaviours that lead beginning writers to communicate with others. DLMB, PSI

13. Use the processes and skills of an inquiry stance (ie. questioning, planning, predicting, observing, and
communicating) PSI

16. Measure, using non-standard units of the same size, compare objects, materials and spaces in
terms of their length, mass, capacity, area, and temperature, and explore ways of measuring the passage of time, through inquiry and play-based learning. DLMB

17. Describe, sort, classify, build and compare two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures.
Describe the location and movement of objects, through investigation. DLMB

29. Demonstrate an understanding of the natural world and the need to care for and respect the
environment. BC

Grade 1

Reading: Reading for Meaning
1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating information from the text, including the main idea.

1.6 Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge/experience, to other familiar texts, and/or the world around them.

Writing: Developing and Organizing Content
1.5 Identify and order main ideas and supporting details, initially with support and direction, using simple graphic organizers (e.g., a story ladder, sequence chart) and simple organizational patterns.

Media Literacy: Creating Media Texts
3.4 Produce some short media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using a few simple media forms and appropriate conventions and techniques.

Grade 2

Reading: Reading for Meaning
1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating information from the text, with the inclusion of a few interesting details.

1.6 Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge/experience, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them.

Writing: Developing and Organizing Content
1.5 Identify and order main ideas and supporting details, using graphic organizers (e.g., a story grammar: characters, setting, problem, solution; a sequential chart: first, then, next, finally) and organizational patterns.

Media Literacy: Creating Media Texts
3.4 Produce some short media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using a few simple media forms and appropriate conventions and techniques.

Grade 3

Reading: Reading for Meaning
1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by identifying important ideas and some supporting details.

1.6 Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge/experience, to other familiar texts and to the world around them.

Media Literacy: Creating Media Texts
3.4 Produce some short media texts for specific purposes and audiences, using a few simple media forms and appropriate conventions and techniques.

Grade 4

Reading: Reading for Meaning
1.1 Read a variety of texts from diverse cultures, including literary texts, graphic texts and informational texts.

1.2 Identify a variety of purposes for reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes.

1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details.

1.6 Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge/experience/insights, to other familiar texts and the world around them.

Writing: Developing and Organizing Content
1.5 Identify and order main ideas and supporting details and group them into
units that could be used to develop a summary, using a variety of graphic organizers and organizational patterns.

Grade 5

Reading: Reading for Meaning
1.1 Read a variety of texts from diverse cultures, including literary texts, graphic texts and informational texts.

1.2 Identify a variety of purposes for reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes.

1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details.

1.6 Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience and insights, to other familiar texts and to the world around them.

Writing: Developing and Organizing Content
1.5 Identify and order main ideas and supporting details and group them into units that could be used to develop several linked paragraphs, using a variety of strategies.

Grade 6

Reading: Reading for Meaning
1.1 Read a variety of texts from diverse cultures, including literary texts, graphic texts and informational texts.

1.2 Identify a variety of purposes for reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes.

1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing relevant supporting details.

1.6 Extend understanding of texts by connecting, comparing and contrasting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience and insights, to other familiar texts and to the world around them. 

Writing: Developing and Organizing Content
1.5 Identify and order main ideas and supporting details and group them into units that could be used to develop a structured, multi-paragraph piece of writing, using a variety of strategies and organizational patterns.

Grade 7

Oral Communication: Listening to Understand
1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate listening behaviour by adapting active listening strategies to suit a wide variety of situations, including work in groups.

1.9 Identify a wide variety of presentation strategies used in oral texts and evaluate their effectiveness.

Oral Communication: Speaking to Communicate
 2.3 Communicate orally in a clear, coherent manner, using a structure and style appropriate to both the topic and the intended audience. 

Reflecting on Oral Communication Skills & Strategies
2.3 Identify what strategies they found most helpful before, during and after listening and speaking and what steps they can take to improve their oral communication skills.

Media Literacy: Understanding Media Texts
1.1 Explain how various media texts address their intended purpose and audience.

1.3 Evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation and treatment of ideas, information, themes, opinions, issues and/or experiences in media texts.

1.4 Explain why different audiences might have different responses to a variety of media texts.

Media Literacy: Understanding Media Forms, Conventions & Techniques
2.1 Explain how individual elements of various media forms combine to create, reinforce and/or enhance meaning.

2.2 Identify the conventions and techniques used in a variety of media forms and explain how they help convey meaning and influence or engage the audience.

Media Literacy: Creating Media Texts
3.1 Explain why they have chosen the topic for a media text they plan to create and identify challenges they may face in engaging and/or influencing their audience.

3.2 Identify an appropriate form to suit the specific purpose and audience for a media text they plan to create and explain why it is an appropriate choice.

3.4 Produce a variety of media texts of some technical complexity for specific purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions and techniques.

Media Literacy: Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills & Strategies
4.1 Identify what strategies they found most helpful in making sense of and creating media texts and explain how these and other strategies can help them improve as media viewers/ listeners/producers.

Grade 8

Oral Communication: Listening to Understand
1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate listening behaviour by adapting active listening strategies to suit a wide variety of situations, including work in groups.

1.9 Identify a wide variety of presentation strategies used in oral texts, evaluate their effectiveness and suggest other strategies that might have been as effective.

Oral Communication: Speaking to Communicate
2.3 Communicate in a clear, coherent manner, using a structure and style appropriate to the purpose, the subject matter and the intended audience. 

Oral Communication: Reflecting on Oral Communication Skills & Strategies
2.3 Identify what strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after listening and speaking and what steps they can take to improve their oral communication skills.

Media Literacy: Understanding Media Texts
1.1 Explain how various media texts address their intended purpose and audience.

1.3 Evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation and treatment of ideas, information, themes, opinions, issues and/or experiences in media texts.

1.4 Explain why different audiences might have different responses to a variety of media texts.

Media Literacy: Understanding Media Forms, Conventions & Techniques
2.1 Explain how individual elements of various media forms combine to create, reinforce and/or enhance meaning.

2.2 Identify the conventions and techniques used in a variety of media forms and explain how they help convey meaning and influence or engage the audience.

Media Literacy: Creating Media Texts
3.1 Explain why they have chosen the topic for a media text they plan to create and identify challenges they may face in engaging and/or influencing their audience.

3.2 Identify an appropriate form to suit the specific purpose and audience for a media text they plan to create and explain why it is an appropriate choice.

3.4 Produce a variety of media texts of some technical complexity for specific purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions and techniques. 

Media Literacy: Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills & Strategies
4.1 Identify what strategies they found most helpful in making sense of and creating media texts and explain how these and other strategies can help them improve as media viewers/ listeners/producers. 

Grade 4

Numbers B2: Operations
2.1 Use the properties of operations and the relationships between addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to solve problems involving whole numbers, including those requiring more than one operation, and check calculations.

2.2 Recall and demonstrate multiplication facts for 1 × 1 to 10 × 10 and related division facts.

2.4 Represent and solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers that add up to no more than 10 000 and of decimal tenths, using
appropriate tools and strategies, including algorithms.

2.6 Represent and solve problems involving the division of two- or three-digitwhole numbers by one-digit whole numbers, expressing any remainder as a fraction when appropriate, using appropriate tools, including arrays.

Algebra C3: Coding
3.1 Solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing code, including code that involves sequential, concurrent, repeating and nested events.

3.2 Read and alter existing code, including code that involves sequential, concurrent, repeating and nested events and describe how changes to the code affect the outcomes.

Grade 5

Numbers B2: Operations
2.1 Use the properties of operations and the relationships between operations, to solve problems involving whole numbers and decimal numbers, including those requiring more than one operation and check calculations.

2.2 Recall and demonstrate multiplication facts from 0 × 0 to 12 × 12 and related division facts.

2.4 Represent and solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers that add up to no more than 100 000 and of decimal numbers up to hundredths, using appropriate tools, strategies and algorithms.

2.6 Represent and solve problems involving the multiplication of two-digit whole numbers by two-digit whole numbers using the area model and using algorithms and make connections between the two methods.

Algebra C3: Coding
3.1 Solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing code, including code that involves conditional statements and other control structures.

3.2 Read and alter existing code, including code that involves conditional statements and other control structures and describe how changes to the code affect the outcomes.

Grade 6

Numbers B2: Operations
2.1 Use the properties of operations and the relationships between operations, to solve problems involving whole numbers, decimal numbers, fractions, ratios, rates and whole number percentages, including those requiring multiple steps or multiple operations.

2.2 Understand the divisibility rules and use them to determine whether numbers are divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10.

2.4 Represent and solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimal numbers, using estimation and algorithms.

2.7 Represent and solve problems involving the multiplication of three-digit whole numbers by decimal tenths, using algorithms.

Algebra C3: Coding
3.1 Solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing efficient code, including code that involves conditional statements and other control structures.

3.2 Read and alter existing code, including code that involves conditional statements and other control structures and describe how changes to the code affect the outcomes and the efficiency of the code.

Grade 7

Financial Literacy: Financial Management
1.2 Identify and describe various reliable sources of information that can help with planning for and reaching a financial goal.

1.3 Create, track, and adjust sample budgets designed to meet longer-term financial goals for various scenarios.

1.4 Identify various social and personal factors that may influence financial decision making and describe the effects that each might have.

Grade 8

Financial Literacy: Financial Management
1.2 Create a financial plan to reach a long-term financial goal, accounting for income, expenses and tax implications.

1.3 Identify different ways to maintain a balanced budget and use appropriate tools to track all income and spending, for several different scenarios.

Grade 1

Relating Science & Technology to Society & the Environment
1.1 Identify personal action that they themselves can take to help maintain a healthy environment for living things, including humans.

1.2 Describe changes or problems that could result from the loss of some kinds of living things that are part of everyday life (e.g., if we lost all the cows, all the insects, all the bats, all the trees, all the grasses), taking different points of view into consideration.

Developing Investigation & Communication Skills
2.2 Investigate and compare the basic needs of humans and other living things, including the need for air, water, food, warmth and space, using a variety of methods and resources.

2.3 Investigate and compare the physical characteristics of a variety of plants and animals, including humans.

Understanding Basic Concepts
3.1 Identify environment as the area in which something/someone exists/lives.

3.2 Identify the physical characteristics (e.g., size, shape, colour, common parts) of a variety of plants and animals.

3.4 Describe the characteristics of a healthy environment, including clean air and water and nutritious food and explain why it is important for all living things to have a healthy environment.

3.5 Describe how showing care and respect for all living things helps to maintain a healthy environment.

3.6 Identify what living things provide for other living things.

Grade 2

Relating to Science & Technology to Society & the Environment
1.1 Identify positive and negative impacts that animals have on humans (society) and the environment, form an opinion about one of them, and suggest ways in which the impact can be minimized or enhanced.

1.2 Identify positive and negative impacts that different kinds of human activity have on animals and where they live, form an opinion about one of them, and suggest ways in which the impact can be minimized or enhanced.

Developing Investigation & Communication Skills
2.2 Observe and compare the physical characteristics (e.g., fur or feathers; two legs or no legs) and the behavioural characteristics (e.g., predator or prey) of a variety of animals, including insects, using student-generated questions and a variety of methods and resources.

2.3 Investigate the life cycle of a variety of animals (e.g., butterflies, frogs, chickens), using a variety of methods and resources.

Understanding Basic Concepts
3.1 Identify and describe major physical characteristics of different types of animals.

3.2 Describe an adaptation as a characteristic body part, shape, or behaviour that helps a plant or animal survive in its environment.

Grade 1

B1. Application: Interrelationships within the Community
B1.1 Describe some of the ways in which people make use of natural and built features of and human services in, the local community to meet their needs and what might happen if these features/services did not exist.

B.1.2 Identify some services and service-related occupations in their community and describe how they meet people’s needs, including their own needs.

Grade 2

B1. Application: Variations in Global Communities
B1.2 Describe some of the ways in which two or more distinct communities have adapted to their location, climate and physical features.

B3. Understanding Context: Physical Features & Communities
B3.6 Identify basic human needs and describe some ways in which people in communities around the world meet these needs.

Grade 3

B1. Application: Land Use & the Environment
B1.1 Describe some major connections between features of the natural environment of a region and the type of land use and/or the type of community that is established in that region.

B1.2 Describe some major connections between features of the natural environment and the type of employment that is available in a region, with reference to two or more municipal regions in Ontario.

B3. Application: Understanding Context: Regions and Land Use in Ontario
B3.5 Describe major types of land and how they address human needs/wants.

Grade 1

D1. Understanding Health Concepts
D1.1 Explain why people need food to have healthy bodies and minds.

D2. Making Healthy Choices
D2.1 Describe how Canada’s Food Guide can help them develop healthy eating habits.

Grade 2

D2. Making Healthy Choices
D2.1 Use Canada’s Food Guide to identify food and beverage choices that contribute to healthy eating patterns.

Grade 3

D1. Understanding Health Concepts
D1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of how the origins of food (e.g., where the food is grown, harvested, trapped, fished, or hunted; whether and how it is processed or prepared) affect its nutritional value and how those factors and others (e.g., the way we consume and dispose of food) can affect the environment.

D3. Making Connections for Healthy Living
D3.1 Explain how local foods and foods from various cultures can be used to expand their range of healthy eating choices.

Grade 4

D1. Understanding Health Concepts
D1.1 Identify the key nutrients provided by foods and beverages and describe their importance for growth, mental and physical health, learning and physical performance.

D2. Making Healthy Choices
D2.1 Identify personal eating habits through self-monitoring over time and set a goal for developing healthier eating habits, on the basis of the recommendations and guidelines in Canada’s Food Guide.

Grade 5

D2. Making Healthy Choices
D2.1 Explain how to use nutrition fact tables and ingredient lists on food labels to make informed choices about healthy and safe foods.

Grade 6

D2. Making Connections for Healthy Living
D3.1 Explain how healthy eating and active living work together to improve a
person’s overall physical and mental health and well-being and how the benefits of both can be promoted to others.

Grade 1

Drama: Creating & Presenting
B1.1 Engage in dramatic play and role play, with a focus on exploring a variety of sources from diverse communities, times and places.

Visual Arts: Creating & Presenting
D1.1 Create two- and three-dimensional works of art that express feelings and ideas inspired by personal experiences.

D1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of composition, using principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic.

D1.3 Use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and personal understandings.

Grade 2

Drama: Creating & Presenting

B1.1 Engage in dramatic play and role play, with a focus on exploring main ideas and central characters in stories from diverse communities, times and places.

Visual Arts: Creating & Presenting
D1.1 Create two- and three-dimensional works of art that express feelings and ideas inspired by activities in their community or observations of nature.

D1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of composition, using principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic.

D1.3 Use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages and
personal understandings.

Grade 3

Drama: Creating & Presenting
B1.1 Engage in dramatic play and role play, with a focus on exploring themes, ideas, characters and issues from imagination or in stories from diverse communities, times and places.

Visual Arts: Creating & Presenting
D1.1 Create two- and three-dimensional works of art that express personal feelings and ideas inspired by the environment or that have the community as their subject.

D1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of composition, using principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic.

D1.3 Use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages and personal understandings. 

Grade 7

Drama: Creating & Presenting
1.1 Engage actively in drama exploration and role play, with a focus on examining multiple perspectives related to current issues, themes, and relationships from a wide variety of sources and diverse communities.

1.3 Plan and shape the direction of the drama by working with others, both in and out of role, to generate ideas and explore multiple perspectives.

Grade 8

Drama: Creating & Presenting
1.1 Engage actively in drama exploration and role play, with a focus on examining multiple perspectives and possible outcomes related to complex issues, themes and relationships from a wide variety of sources and diverse communities.

1.3 Plan and shape the direction of the drama by negotiating ideas and perspectives with others, both in and out of role

Grade 7

B1. Application: Natural Resources & Sustainability
1.1 Analyze interrelationships between the location/accessibility, mode of extraction/harvesting and use of various natural resources.

B3. Understanding Geographic Context: Using Natural Resources
B3.2 Describe ways in which people use the natural environment, including specific elements within it, to meet their needs and wants.

Grade 8

B3. Application: Natural Resources & Sustainability
B3.6 Identify different types of economic systems and describe their characteristics.

B3.7 Explain how the four main economic sectors (primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary) are related to global development.

B3.8 Identify and describe various factors that can contribute to economic development.