We're ready for our first primary class Beyond the Classroom Experience of the year!
Pre Padlet
What wonder do you have about our way of living in Toronto (think about your day to day life and the needs that are met)
Beyond the Classroom – Gr. 3 Social Studies
Our overarching theme - Focus on ways in which people from two or more communities around the world meet their needs and have adapted to location, climate and physical features of their region.
Pre work
1. Words to know
Adapt
Climate
Physical features
Resilience
Inequality
Affordable housing
Maybe they write down each word in their beyond the classroom journal and leave half a page.
As we move through the unit, they need to draw pictures AND give examples and words that explain the word
2. Brainstorm parts of the world that are very different
e.g Toronto vs Kenya - Why are they different?
What challenges would people have in living in each region
3. Introduce the word resilience – ask them to come up with a definition and example of it (I think we want to focus on idea of resilience means adapting to your surroundings)
Day 1 
10 – 1040 Resilience strategies - ability to survive, thrive and adapt to any conditions
10:40 – 11:10 Introduce Fact vs Fact Analysis using the presentation to help
11:10 – lunch
11:30 – downtown walk – noticing examples of resilience and examples of how Toronto has met needs (parks, buildings, churches, transit) We ask them to notice way the city has adapted to needs
Noon Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral
1:00 Journalling and continuation of morning topics
Day 1 padlet is pasted below
Day 2
More learning around what our city needs to work and how our budget impacts our city.
Here's our padlet for Day 2
https://padlet.com/StSylvester/cityneeds
Day 3 was about City planning and we had a great presentation wiht some good Fact/Fact Analysis.
Day 4
All about the TTC. Pics and thoughts to follow.
Here's the padlet.
https://padlet.com/StSylvester/ttcthoughts
Our final artifact is pasted below.
BTC artifact urban planning 2019.pdf