Unit Plan

Unit Dates:
Grade(s): 8 Unit Focus: Examining Worldviews Teacher: Mr.Kim
Sept 4 - Oct 1
Overview:
Students will explore the concepts of worldviews and how it is expressed by different people in different geographic locations and
different times. The introductory ​‘Examining Worldviews’​ Unit will help students develop a foundation from which they can better
jump into the Grade 8 Curriculum. Students will develop a preliminary understanding of relevant terms, key concepts and will have
an opportunity to exercise ​Historical, Critical, and Geographical Thinking.

Rationale:
This unit should help build a foundation of understanding of the curriculum’s key terms and concepts (​Adaptation, contact,
expansionist, humanist, imperialism, intercultural, isolation, Renaissance, social structures, society, worldview)​. While future units
will flesh out these terms and concepts in a more meaningful way, this introductory unit will serve to give an overview of how
these terms and ideas link together to build a general road map for upcoming units.

Objectives / Learner Outcomes:

8.1.1 - Time and Geography’s roles in shaping a society’s Worldview.
8.1.2 ​- ​Society’s Worldview can foster the choice to be an Isolated Society.
8.1.4 - Worldview of a Society can shape individual citizenship and identity.
8.2.2 - Willingness to consider differing beliefs, values and worldviews.
8.2.3 - Beliefs and values are shaped by time, geographic location and societal context.
8.3.1 - A society’s Worldview affects their choices, decisions and interactions with others.
8.3.3 - Recognize how rapid adaptation can radically change a society’s beliefs, values and knowledge.
8.s.1 - Critical thinking and creative thinking
8.s.2 - Historical Thinking
8.s.3 - Geographical thinking
8.s.7 - Research processes
8.s.8 - Oral, written and visual literacy

In addition to the students learning the terms and concepts of the curriculum, students will also be required to practice their ability
to think ​Historically. (Can the student analyze issues and problems from the past within the context of time and place?)
Students will also have an opportunity to further develop their ability to think ​Critically​. (​Can the student question their own biases,
thoughts and beliefs and assumptions in order to develop a better understanding of others’ worldviews?).

Key Teaching and Learning Activities:

Examining YOUR Worldview

Examining the Elements of Worldviews

Folktales and Worldviews

Worldviews Expressed - News, Media?

Examining worldviews through culture

Society, Social Structures

Isolation

Imperialism

Expansionist, Contact

Adaptation, Intercultural

Resources: Assessment and Evaluation:

Worldviews: Contact and Change​ Textbook - ​This textbook will be
used mostly as a loose roadmap for the teacher. The students will not be
assigned readings from this textbook, however, they will have optional
access to the textbook.
The Foundations of Worldview
Student assessment in this unit will mostly be done formatively.
However, there will be a unit test to ensure that students have a
firm introductory understanding of the terms and concepts
taught in this unit.
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssoc8/html/foundationsofworldvie Examining YOUR worldview - thinking about our lens
w_oci.html (Formative)

Folktales and Worldviews - pulling worldviews from

stories(formative)

Worldviews expressed - research media, news(formative)

Concept review Quizzes(formative)

Unit Test(Summative)
Planning For Diversity in the Classroom:
Within Coalhurst, there may be some students who come from families who own/operate farms. There may be some cases where
these students and their parents prioritize work above school. If this happens to be the case, I plan on providing extra material to
the student that allow him/her to complete schoolwork outside of class time. I also think it might be best practice to recruit the
parents into the process in order to see what their goals are for their child and what they would like to see happen in order to
balance work and school life.

Some students may also have significantly lower reading levels than their peers. Within the classroom, students will always be
provided with a verbal version of the instructions of the tasks at hand. For work outside of school, all materials from class will be
made available to parents and students through ​Schoology​ where the parents can help with certain higher level reading tasks that
the student may come across at home.
 September
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

3 ​Labour Day 4 ​Examining Your 5 ​Examining your 6​ Examining the Elements 7 ​Folktales and
Worldview Worldview pt.2 of Worldviews Worldviews
8.1.1, 8.1.4, 8.2.2, 8.2.3 8.1.1, 8.1.4, 8.2.2, 8.2.3 8.2.3, 8.s.2, 8.s.7 8.1.1, 8.1.4, 8.2.2, 8.s.1, 8.s.2

10 ​Folktales... 11​ Worldviews Expressed 12 ​Examining Worldviews 13​ Worldviews through 14 ​Wrap-up
Worldviews Expressed - pt.2 through Culture culture
news, media? 8.s.1, 8.s.7, 8.s.8 8.2.2, 8.s.7 8.2.2, 8.s.7
8.1.1, 8.1.4, 8.2.2, 8.s.1, 8.s.2

17 ​Society, Social 18 19​ Isolation 20 21​ Imperialism

Structures 8.1.2 8.s.1, 8.s.2
8.1.1, 8.3.1

24 ​, Expansionist, Contact 25 26 ​Adaptation, 27 28 ​Review

8.s.1, 8.s.2 Intercultural
8.3.3, 8.3.1

1 ​Unit Test 2 3 4 5