What your child learns in Grade 8 in PEI
Grade 8 continues the intermediate years. Science covers water systems, fluids, optics, and cells, tissues, organs and systems. Social studies looks at Canadian identity and its cultural, political and societal roots, from the 1920s to present-day Canada, and ends in a project that expresses the student's own understanding of Canadian identity.
Grade 8 subjects in the Prince Edward Island Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Number.
- Patterns and Relations.
- Shape and Space.
14 units, including squares, cubes & roots, integer operations, fraction operations, ratios, rates & proportions.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
15 units, including reading detective, word study, close reading, whose story is it?.
Science
Big Ideas
- Water Systems.
- Fluids.
- Optics.
14 units, including water on earth, oceans, currents & climate, viscosity & flow, density & buoyancy.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Canadian identity. Canadian identity and its cultural, political and societal roots, from the 1920s to present-day Canada.
- Geographic influences. Canadian identity explored through geographic influences.
- Decades of change. Canadian identity explored through decades of change.
10 units, including what is canadian identity?, newcomers and communities, land & identity, sources & evidence.
Core French
Big Ideas
- Core French. The Grades 7 to 9 program builds confidence in learning and using French through purposeful, action-oriented tasks set in authentic contexts.
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.
PEI report cards describe learning with Beginning, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding. See what each level means.
The CAMET competencies grow through exploratory learning and every subject in the intermediate years. Read about camet competencies.
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, add & subtract integers, decimal operations, fractions, comparing & ordering
- English Language Arts: reading strategies, roots & word parts, close reading, literary devices, tone & mood
- Science: ecosystems, food chains & energy, cycles & succession, people & ecosystems, restless earth
- Social Studies: thinking like a historian, economic empowerment, steam, rails and wires, research skills, political empowerment
- Core French: describing people, places in town, directions, comparing, cognates and strategies
Common questions
Grade 8 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, core french in the Prince Edward Island Curriculum. Grade 8 continues the intermediate years. Science covers water systems, fluids, optics, and cells, tissues, organs and systems. Social studies looks at Canadian identity and its cultural, political and societal roots, from the 1920s to present-day Canada, and ends in a project that expresses the student's own understanding of Canadian identity.
PEI 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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