
Senior Social Sciences Inquiry
A complete grade 12 blended-subject course design. Students combine English with 1 of 5 Social Science courses. Learning Outcomes are met through entirely student-designed projects.
A complete grade 12 blended-subject course design. Students combine English with 1 of 5 Social Science courses. Learning Outcomes are met through entirely student-designed projects.
In the context of a blended grade 11 English-History course, students must apply observations from dystopian litterature and the 20th Century to design a'perfect' society.
During an Outdoor Education trip to a nearby natural clay deposit, students dig, process, and then pit-fire their own 'wild' ceramic vessels. A post-trip research report discusses evidence-based anthropological insights from the activity.
In a blended grade 9 English-Socials course, students connect with Jon Krakauer's investigation of Chris McCandless's fate by mapping his journey in Google My Maps with socio-cultural annotations.
Students in a blended grade 10 English-Socials course research North American socio-economics of the 1920s to compete in a fictional stock market simulation of the period. Extends the BC Social Studies 10 curriculum by introducing investment and corporate finance.
Incorporating elements of debate and bartering, students in a grade 9 blended English-Socials course must negotiate a version of the WWI-ending treaty as the signing nations. Opposing point incentives ensure historically-accurate conflict.
As a final project in Programming 12, students are given a RPI and a number of sensors to turn into a useful tool for the school; e.g. a weather station, an attendance bot, a physics lab apparatus, etc.