What your child learns in Grade 8 in Nunavut
Grade 8 is the last year before the Grade 9 courses. Students work with rates and ratios, linear relations and the Pythagorean theorem. Social studies looks at how Nunavut was created.
Grade 8 subjects in the Nunavut Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Iqqaqqaukkaringniq: concepts in mathematics, analytical and critical thinking, and solution-seeking.
- Number: develop number sense and understand how numbers and operations work.
- Patterns and Relations: use patterns and equations to describe the world and solve problems.
11 units, including squares & square roots, ratios, rates & proportions, fraction operations, integer operations.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Uqausiliriniq: communication and language, creative and artistic expression, and reflective and critical thinking.
- Comprehension: listen, view and read to understand a range of texts.
- Production: speak, write and represent ideas clearly for different audiences and purposes.
13 units, including research & inquiry, reading detective, close reading, whose story is it?.
Science
Big Ideas
- Iqqaqqaukkaringniq: the Nunavut adaptation of the Alberta Science 7–9 program of studies.
- Units of study bring together life, physical and earth and space science with skills of inquiry and design.
- Learning with Elders and from the land is encouraged alongside classroom science.
16 units, including mixtures, solutions & whmis, particles & matter, viscosity & flow, density & buoyancy.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Nunavusiutit: heritage and culture, history, geography, environmental science, and civics and economics, with a focus on Nunavut and its links to Canada and the circumpolar world.
- Inuuqatigiit, the curriculum from the Inuit perspective, shapes how the strand is taught.
- Skills of inquiry, working with others and respecting different points of view.
3 units, including making nunavut, being a historian, sources & evidence.
Core French
Big Ideas
- French as an Additional Language for Nunavut, Grades 4 to 9: communication in French and learning about francophone cultures.
- Oral communication, reading, writing and viewing build step by step from familiar topics.
7 units, including past, present, future, how often?, opinions and reasons, comparing and contrasting.
What to look for on the report card
Look for comments on managing a heavier workload, showing steps in math and supporting an argument with evidence.
Nunavut report cards describe learning with Beginning, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding. See what each level means.
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit guides learning from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about inuit qaujimajatuqangit.
Ready for Grade 8?
Grade 8 builds on what your child practised in Grade 7. If a skill feels shaky, a few short practice sessions before or early in the year can help:
- Math: divisibility rules, decimal operations, adding & subtracting fractions, comparing & ordering, fractions, decimals & percents
- English Language Arts: close reading, whose story?, literary devices, tone & mood, poetry lab
- Science: tundra ecosystems, ecosystems, food chains & energy, cycles & succession, people & ecosystems
- Social Studies: the circumpolar world, iq in everyday life, working together fairly
- Core French: directions, places in town, comparing, describing people, cognates and strategies
Common questions
Grade 8 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, core french in the Nunavut Curriculum. Grade 8 is the last year before the Grade 9 courses. Students work with rates and ratios, linear relations and the Pythagorean theorem. Social studies looks at how Nunavut was created.
Nunavut report cards describe learning with Beginning, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding.
Short, regular practice works better than long sessions: 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week, on the skills your child's teacher flags. Read together, use math in real life, and praise effort.
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