How teachers are using This Wiki

• include students with special needs in the curriculum
• differentiate instruction by offering student choice
• alternate way to access curriculum material
• for students who need more practice or repetition
• extension activities for students who need more challenge
• showing photos, videos, or interactives on the SMARTBoard
• in computer lab with whole class
• at home for students who are absent
• at home for parents who want to help

Related to BC Curriculum for Intermediate Grades

This wiki provides resources in multiple means of representation so that students can access information related to the B.C. curriculum in a variety of ways.  The wiki was created to support the students I work with but anyone is welcome to use this wiki. You do not need to request access unless you want to become a contributor.

Each wiki page is based on a BC IRP (our curriculum standards) and contains a variety of digital resources that support that IRP. The BC curriculum is currently undergoing revision.  A draft curriculum is available online. 

Social Studies 

Aboriginal Cultures: General overview of Aboriginal Cultures with cross-cultural focus (grades 4/5)

Aboriginal Cultures: Haida (grades 4/5)

Aboriginal Cultures: Inuit (grades 4/5)

Aboriginal Cultures: Tsimshian (grade 4/5)

Canada: Exploration, Settlement, and Immigration (grade 5)

Canada: Fur Trade (grades 4/5, 8/9)

Canada: Governance (grade 5)

Canada: Gold Rush (grade 5)

Canada: Provinces, Capitals, and Symbols (grade 5)

Canada:  Transportation and Communication  (grade 5) NEW Dec 2014

Continents (grade 4)

Egypt (grade 7 UDL-designed site for students by Harwin Elementary teachers)

Science

Earth's Crust; The Rock Cycle (grade 7)

Earth's Resources: General Overview of  Resources and Conservation (grade 5)

Earth's Resources: Energy (grade 5)

Earth's Resources: Forest (grade 5)

Earth's Resources: Mining (grade 5)

Earth's Resources: Salmon (grade 4/5)

Earth's Resources: Water (grade 5) 

Ecosystems (grade 7)

Electricity (grade 6)

Extreme Environments: Space (grade 6)  also see Solar System (grade 3)

Extreme Environments:  Ocean (grade 6)

Extreme Environments:  Desert (grade 6)

Extreme Environments: Polar Regions (grade 6)

Extreme Environments: Volcanoes (grade 6) planned

Food Chains (grade  4)

Forces and Machines (grade 5)

Habitats, Biomes, and Adaptations (Grade 5)

Human Body:  Circulatory System (grade 5)

Human Body:  Respiratory System (grade 5)

Human Body: Bones, Muscles, Skin (grade 5)

Human Body:  Digestive System (grade 5)

Human Body:  Nervous System (grade 5)

Light (grade 4)

Optics (grade 8) 

Solar System (grade 3)

Sound (grade 4) NEW Dec 2014

Weather (grade 4)

Language Arts

Novel Study:  To Kill a Mockingbird (UDL-designed by Maureen LaFleche)

Novel Study:  Holes (UDL-designed by Maureen LaFleche and Mallory Burton)

Poetry (K-7 UDL-designed choices for a school-wide poetry unit by Fairview Elementary teachers)

Math

BC Math Teachers Wiki (grade 8/9)

Other UDL and Technology Wikis

Technology Toolbelts for Students (middle and high school focus)

Technology Toolbelts for Teachers

BC UDL Wiki  (content from the BC Universal Design for Learning Project)

Paul Hamilton's new UDL Resources website and Free Resources from the Net for Every Learner blog

Maureen LaFleche's Curriculum Resources Weebly

Differentiation Daily has practical ideas for differentiating in many subject areas by teacher Paula Kluth

James Hollis Teachers Love SMARTBoards blog (great ideas and tutorials)

SMARTInclusion Project (using SMARTBoards for inclusion in Upper Canada)

Kelly Tenkley's iLearn Technology blog  (great classroom ideas for using tech)

Need more resources? 

I rarely do a general Google search for curriculum planning.  Instead, I head straight to a number of excellent sites that have already identified educational materials.  I have made a page on this wiki that describes my favourite Links for Curriculum Planning.   Here are a larger selection of my favourite links for curriculum planning organized on a handy sqworl page.  If the topic you need is not listed in my links, also try searching on the main sqworl page to see if a page of links has already been created.