What your child learns in Grade 8 in Ontario

Big Ideas

• B1 Number Sense: Demonstrate an understanding of numbers and make connections to the way numbers are used in everyday life
• B2 Operations: Use knowledge of numbers and operations to solve mathematical problems encountered in everyday life
• C1 Patterns and Relationships: Identify, describe, extend, create, and make predictions about a variety of patterns, including those found in real-life contexts

18 units, including big, small & real numbers, squares, cubes & roots, integer operations, fraction operations.

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• A1 Transferable Skills: Demonstrate an understanding of how the seven transferable skills (critical thinking and problem solving; innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship; self-directed learning; collaboration; communication; global citizenship and sustainability; and digital literacy) are used in various language and literacy contexts
• A2 Digital Media Literacy: Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills needed to interact safely and responsibly in online environments, use digital and media tools to construct knowledge, and demonstrate learning as critical consumers and creators of media
• A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Apply language and literacy skills in cross-curricular and integrated learning, and demonstrate an understanding of, and make connections to, diverse voices, experiences, perspectives, histories, and contributions, including those of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit individuals, communities, groups, and nations

11 units, including close reading, reading detective, whose story is it?, literary devices.

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• A1 STEM Investigation and Communication Skills: Use a scientific research process, a scientific experimentation process, and an engineering design process to conduct investigations, following appropriate health and safety procedures
• A2 Coding and Emerging Technologies: Use coding in investigations and to model concepts, and assess the impact of coding and of emerging technologies on everyday life and in STEM-related fields
• A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Demonstrate an understanding of the practical applications of science and technology, and of contributions to science and technology from people with diverse lived experiences

13 units, including think like a scientist, cells, organisms & technology, cells & life processes, viscosity & flow.

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• History A1 Application – Peoples in the New Nation: Assess the impact of some key social, economic, and political factors, including social, economic, and/or political inequalities, on various groups and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, and on the creation and expansion of the Dominion of Canada, between 1850 and 1890
• History A2 Inquiry – Perspectives in the New Nation: Use the historical inquiry process to investigate perspectives of different groups and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and/or Inuit communities, on some significant events, developments, and/or issues that affected Canada and/or people in Canada between 1850 and 1890
• History A3 Understanding Historical Context – Events and Their Consequences: Describe various significant people, events, and developments in Canada between 1850 and 1890, including the Indian Act, treaties between Indigenous nations and the Crown, and the residential school system, and explain their impact

15 units, including think like a historian, making a country, railway & the west, treaties & the indian act.

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• In immersion, French is the language we learn in, so listening and speaking grow every day.
• Reading French texts of many kinds builds comprehension and the habit of reading for meaning.
• Writing in French for a purpose and an audience uses the conventions of the language.

11 units, including les registres de langue, parler et se faire comprendre, la légende, le théâtre.

Big Ideas

• Listening to French and responding to it builds understanding, one step at a time.
• Speaking and interacting in French uses familiar words and sentence patterns.
• Reading a range of French texts builds comprehension and an eye for how texts are put together.

9 units, including past, present, future, asking questions, how often?, opinions and reasons.