New Brunswick - Visual Arts 4
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Application and Product
Skill Descriptor:
Create and present expressive work in visual arts for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media including technology.
Achievement Indicators:
Create representations of a variety of subjects with a focus on careful observation
Create art for a variety of reasons, including responses to music and literature
New Brunswick - Visual Arts 5
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Exploration and Process
Skill Descriptor:
Apply the elements of art and the principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes.
Achievement Indicators:
Use directionality of line for a variety of purposes
Create with geometric and organic shapes
Science 10
Strand: Scientific Literacy
Big Idea: Communication
Skill Descriptor:
Develop scientific collaborative skills during investigations to communicate conclusions supported by data.
Achievement Indicators:
Evaluate results in relation to other models, products, and knowledge.
Communicate scientific and technological ideas and information for a purpose.
Use appropriate scientific and technological language, conventions, and representations.
Science 6-8 Overview
Science learners in the Middle Block “apply critical thinking and scientific literacy to their investigations” and “transfer science and technological understandings to situational contexts.” Digital media literacy connections at this level are found in the Scientific Literacy strand.
New Brunswick – Science 6
Strand: Scientific Literacy
Big Idea: Sensemaking
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
Achievement Indicators:
Represent and organize titled and labelled collected data using drawings, digital technologies, simple text, tables and other graphical formats
Interpolate or extrapolate from patterns or trends in collected data
Classify and sort objects and events
New Brunswick - Science 7
Strand: Scientific Literacy
Big Idea: Sensemaking
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
Achievement Indicators:
Science 8
Strand: Scientific Literacy
Big Idea: Sensemaking
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
Achievement Indicators:
Science 9-12
Science courses in the High School Block “prepare students to hypothesize; inquire, pursue, acquire, and apply knowledge about the physical and natural world; be curious; plan, create and action change; apply a systematic methodology based on scientific evidence and grounded in observation and experimentation; [and] find problems and make decisions by critical evaluation of evidence and applying knowledge and evidence to novel situations.”
Science Overview
The New Brunswick Science curriculum connects with digital and media literacy through attitudes "that support the responsible acquisition and application of scientific and technological knowledge to the mutual benefit of self, society and the environment." Relevant expectations are found in the attitudes of Appreciation of Science, Interest in Science, and Scientific Inquiry.