Grade 6 Curriculum Connections on the Gold Rush Trail
The Gold Rush Outdoor Adventure Game explores the following Grade 6 Curriculum Connections in addition to a review of cross-curricular topics for previous grades.
| Health & Physical Education |
| Living Skills 1.1 Use self-awareness and self-monitoring skills to help them understand their strengths and needs, take responsibility for their actions, recognize sources of stress, and monitor their own progress, as they participate in physical activities, develop movement competence, and acquire knowledge and skills related to healthy living. |
| Living Skills 1.2 Use adaptive, management, and coping skills to help them respond to the various challenges they encounter as they participate in physical activities, develop movement competence, and acquire knowledge and skills related to healthy living. |
| Living Skills 1.3 Communicate effectively, using verbal or non-verbal means, as appropriate, and interpret information accurately as they participate in physical activities, develop movement competence, and acquire knowledge and skills related to healthy living. |
| Living Skills 1.4 Apply relationship and social skills as they participate in physical activities, develop movement competence, and acquire knowledge and skills related to healthy living to help them interact positively with others, build healthy relationships, and become effective team members. |
| Living Skills 1.5 Use a range of critical and creative thinking skills and processes to assist them in making connections, planning and setting goals, analyzing and solving problems, making decisions, and evaluating their choices in connection with learning in connection with learning in health and physical education. |
| Active Living A2.1 Daily physical activity (DPA): participate in sustained moderate to vigorous physical activity, with appropriate warm-up and cool-down activities, to the best of their ability for a minimum of twenty minutes each day. |
| Language |
| Reading 1.3: Identify a variety of reading comprehension strategies and use them appropriately before, during, and after reading to understand increasingly complex texts. |
| Reading 1.4: Demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex texts by summarizing and explaining important ideas and citing relevant supporting details. |
| Reading 1.5: Demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex texts by summarizing and explaining important ideas and citing relevant supporting details. |
| Reading 1.6: Extend understanding of texts by connecting, comparing, and contrasting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience, and insights, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them. |
| Math |
| The Mathematical Processes Problem Solving Reasoning and Proving Reflecting Connecting Communicating |
| Social Studies |
| Map and Globe Skills Reading a Legend Cardinal Directions Degree Bearings Locational Technologies |
| A3.2: Describe some key economic, political, cultural, and social aspects of life in settler communities in Canada and identify significant ways in which settlers’ places of origin influenced their ways of life in Canada. |