Saguenay–St.Lawrence Marine Park

Curriculum Correlations

Connections with the Quebec Education Program

Length: 3-4 periods minimum

Level: Elementary Cycle 3

Broad area of learning: Environmental awareness and consumer rights and responsibilities

Subject area: Science and Technology

Subject-specific competencies:

• Proposing explanations or solutions to scientific or technological problems.
• Communicating in the languages used in science and technology.

Cross-curricular competencies:

• Using information 
• Using information and communication technologies
• Cooperating with peers
• Communicating appropriately.

Essential knowledge: Living Things

• Content: Characteristics of living things
• Systems and interaction:
• Interaction between living organisms and their environment
  
• Interaction between humans and their environment
• Appropriate language: Terminology related to an understanding of living things.

 

Curriculum Links with Other Provinces/Territories

Alberta
Science 7 (2003)
Interactions and Ecosystems

British Columbia
Grade 7 Science: Life Science - Ecosystems

Manitoba
Science, Grade 7
Interactions Within Ecosystems

New Brunswick
Science Atlantic Canada Science Curriculum Grade 6
Life Science: Diversity of Life-Adaptations and Natural Selection

Atlantic Canada Science Curriculum: Science 7 Curriculum
Life Science: Interactions with Ecosystems

Newfoundland and Labrador
Science Atlantic Canada Science Curriculum Grade 6
Life Science: Diversity of Life-Adaptations and Natural Selection

Science Grade 7
Unit 1: Interactions within Ecosystems

Nova Scotia
Science Atlantic Canada Science Curriculum Grade 6
Life Science: Diversity of Life-Adaptations and Natural Selection

Atlantic Canada Science Curriculum: Science Grade 7
Life Science: Interactions with Ecosystems

Northwest Territories
Science and Technology, Grades k-6 Curriculum (2004) Optional Implementation
Life Systems: Diversity of Living Things

Science 7-9 (2003)
Interactions and Ecosystems

Nunavut
Science: Grade 7
Life Science
Flow of Energy through Nunavut Ecosystems (Food webs and chains)
Understand the importance of fish and marine mammals in a Nunavut food chain and web. (Whales)

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Grades 7-9
Whales
Cycle of Life

Ontario
Grade 6 Science and Technology (2007) 
Understanding Life Systems: Biodiversity

Grade 7 Science and Technology (2007) 
Understanding Life Systems:  Interactions In The Environment

Prince Edward Island
Science Atlantic Canada Science Curriculum Grade 6
Life Science: Diversity of Life-Adaptations and Natural Selection

Atlantic Canada Science Curriculum: Science Grade 7
Life Science: Interactions with Ecosystems

Saskatchewan
Science Grade 6:  Diversity of Living Things  (2009)
Science Grade 7:  Interactions within Ecosystems  (2009)

Yukon
Grade 7 Science: Life Science - Ecosystems