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=LIBE 463 - Assignment #1=

**Grade Level and Subject**
Grade 5 Science (BC Curriculum)

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 * The BC Science Curriculum document is located at:**

**Major Strands for Grade 5 Science**

 * **Processes and Skills of Science: d**esigning experiments, fair testing
 * **Life Science:** human body
 * **Physical Science:** forces and simple machines
 * **Earth and Space Science:** renewable and non-renewable resources

**Learning Outcomes for each unit are:**

 * Processes and Skills of Science:**
 * identify variables that can be changed in an experiment
 * evaluate the fairness of a given experiment
 * describe the steps in designing an experiment


 * Life Science: Human Body**
 * describe the basic structure and functions of the human respiratory, digestive, circulatory, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems
 * explain how the different body systems are interconnected


 * Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines**
 * demonstrate how various forces can affect the movement of objects
 * demonstrate mechanical advantage of simple machines, including lever, wedge, pulley, ramp, screw, and wheel
 * design a compound machine
 * describe applications of simple and compound machines used in daily life in BC communities


 * Earth and Space Science: Renewable and Non-renewable Resources**
 * analyse how BC’s living and non-living resources are used
 * identify methods of extracting or harvesting and processing BC’s resources
 * analyse how the Aboriginal concept of interconnectedness of the environment is reﬂected in responsibility for and care-taking of resources
 * describe potential environmental impacts of using BC’s living and non-living resources

**Rationale:**
My rationale for choosing Grade 5 Science is that before being hired with the public school system I worked as a Grade 5 or 4-5 teacher in the Catholic School System and I am familiar and comfortable with this curriculum area. I find that as a librarian it has been difficult to find non-fiction books for these science strands at a Grade 5 reading level. We are required to order the bulk of our books from a large American book warehouse and the online ordering can be difficult as the books are difficult to locate and then to know exactly what is in them and how pertinent it is to our BC curriculum. I would like to improve our human body resources and forestry resources especially. I have been working on the simple machines resources over the past year or so.

Our District is also supporting the transition of our traditional school libraries to a Learning Commons and I want to ensure that the library has the necessary resources to support curriculum areas, especially in areas where inquire-based learning projects are created by teacher and teacher-librarian collaboration. Ideally, this also includes support teachers (Learning Assistance teachers, English Second Language teachers etc...) so I need to ensure that the resources meet the wide range of learning needs of our students. I also need to find these resources in both English and French as I work in a French Immersion school.