Unit+1

How the world works: Understanding the Environment

// Let's start at the beginning/ a very good place to start (Rodgers and Hammerstein; The Sound of Music) // When you say "Environment", each student will have a different understanding of the word. Furthermore, even each student who understands this word in the context of Environmental Education will understand it differently. It is the primary objective of this unit to establish a common understanding of (a) what is meant by the word Environment and (b) what our Environment is.

These objectives will be met, along with all ministry prescribed learning outcomes, in the lessons divided between the following subject-categories:


 * Applied Skills || Creating Representations of our World with Tactile Media ||
 * English Language Arts || Understanding our World through Myth ||
 * Environmental studies || Walks and Talks: and introduction ||
 * Fine Arts || Creating Representations of our world with Creative Media ||
 * Health and Career Education (H.A.C.E. or C.A.P.P.) || Understanding the 'Real World' ||
 * Information Technology || The World of the World Wide Web ||
 * Mathematics || Math as a tool to better understand the World around us ||
 * Physical Education || Getting to know our World through Games and Orienteering ||
 * Sciences || Science, Technology, Society and the Environment ||
 * Social Responsibility || Global citizenship and participation ||
 * Social Studies || Charting a course, and mapping our World ||
 * General || Understanding through imagining our own Worlds ||