Description
Help us fetch a bucket! Students will be encouraged to examine the importance of water to the survival and success of pioneers. Taking a trip back in time, students can investigate how farm buildings were located near a water source, how pioneers obtained water needed for animals and the family, was transported from its source by early settlers. Students will compare the difficulties in gathering water using various techniques.
Ontario Curriculum Connections
Social Studies
Heritage and Identity, Grade 4 (Early Societies, 3000 BCE – 1500 CE)
- compare aspects of the daily lives of different groups in an early society (e.g., the work, family life), and explain how differences were related to the social organization of that society
- describe some of the ways in which their daily life differs from the lives of young people from different backgrounds (e.g., wealthy, poor, slave, urban, rural, nomadic) in two or more early societies (e.g., with reference to family life, responsibilities, work)
- describe significant aspects of daily life in two or more early societies
- describe significant physical features and natural processes and events in two or more early societies (e.g., physical features: rivers) and how they affected these societies, with a focus on the societies’ sustainability and food production
Heritage and Identity, Grade 6 (Communities in Canada, Past and Present)
- describe some key economic, political, cultural, and social aspects of life in settler communities in Canada
Health and Physical Education
Living Skills, Grade 4 (Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts and Strategies)
- perform different combinations of locomotor movements with and without equipment, alone and with others, moving at different speeds and levels, using different pathways, and going in different directions
- send and receive objects of a variety of shapes and sizes at different levels and speeds, using different body parts and equipment, while applying basic principles of movement
- retain objects of various shapes and sizes in different ways, using different body parts, with and without equipment, while moving around others and equipment
Living Skills, Grade 5 (Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts and Strategies)
- perform controlled transfers of weight in a variety of situations involving static and dynamic balance, using changes in speed and levels, with and without equipment
- explore different combinations of locomotor movements with and without equipment, alone and with others, moving at different speeds and levels, and using different pathways
- send and receive objects using different body parts and equipment, adjusting for speed, while applying basic principles of movement
Living Skills, Grade 6 (Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts and Strategies)
- perform smooth transfers of weight in relation to others and equipment in a variety of situations involving static and dynamic balance
- perform a wide variety of locomotor movements, in combination, at different speeds, in different directions, and using different pathways
