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Unsworth Elementary

Learning Outcomes

• Compare the structures and behaviors of local animals and plants in different habitats and communities
• Understand how organisms adapt and survive in different habitats
• Analyze simple food chains
• Demonstrate awareness for the Aboriginal concept of respect for the environment
• Determine how personal choices and actions have environmental consequences

A primary focus in this unit will be to study the local habitats in the temperate rainforest in the Chilliwack area. Field trips to several areas in the community would include the Blue Heron Nature Reserve, The Cheam Wetlands, and Nature Hikes on the mountainsides at Cultus Lake and Vedder Mountain, The ocean and seashore in White Rock and web visits to the Kids in the Nest website.

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Chilliwack Middle School

Course Synopsis

The course would be a blend of classroom theory lessons and outdoor pursuit skills and activities. Students would develop skills in outdoor leadership and teamwork skills through the many activities planned during the course. Students would benefit physically and mentally from the lessons of this course as they are challenged to extend their limits and to go beyond their normal limits of comfort and familiarity. A strong appreciation and respect for one's self, others, and the outdoors are legacies that the students will hopefully carry with them throughout their lives.

Organizational Structure

Examples of some of the topics that would be covered in this program include: Cooperative challenges, Biodiversity, Day Hiking, Orienteering, Map Interpretation, Outdoor Cooking, X-Country Skiing, Planning a wilderness excursion, water safety, cycle safety and first aid.

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Chilliwack Secondary School

Course Synopsis

Video Production 9 would be an interactive, practical, co-operative learning course with a maximum enrolment of 20 students, in which students would be engaged in developing technical, artistic and business skills related to producing television and DVD programs for personal, school and community use.

Students would learn the technical operation aspects of video cameras, digital editing programs, music design and creation programs, and DVD design and creation programs. They would advance their artistic skills by engaging in creative project development, writing, music creation, and DVD menu and package design.

Students would complete a number of projects, depending on the length and complexity.

Learning Outcomes are grouped under the Curriculum Organizers of Technical Skills, Artistic Development, Social Responsibility, Business Skills, and Analysis/Evaluation, with heavy weighting being given to the first two.

Assessment would be on-going through a variety of teacher- and student-initiated evaluation processes. The course promotes a "professional" approach by students to the achievement of their goals

Rationale

This course would be developed for students who are interested in pursuing media technology, particularly digital video, after leaving high school. Students would be able to take their skills into high school, or use them for personal and/or business interests. The course would provide for a basic, but high quality, level of skill development in almost all aspects of digital video production, concentrating on the use of digital cameras and digital editing systems.

Students would have opportunities to develop project proposals for a number of purposes, including personal, school, and community oriented, and follow these to completion. As they progress, students would be introduced to situations where skills and attitudes related to self- and social responsibility can be developed and practiced.

This school would view its Video Production program as an integration of technology and creativity, and students would be encouraged to explore both of these through video project work. Students may use video skills that have been learned to help with gaining credit in other courses, such as Art, Social Studies, and P.E.

Students would be asked to share in the analysis, evaluation and assessment of their own and others' work.

This would be conducted as a small entrepreneurial enterprise, and students would be introduced to situations and opportunities, which develop basic business skills and attitudes. This would give students the chance to connect to the "real" world through the creation of video projects that will be used by others throughout the world.

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