Grade 5: every topic

Every topic a child covers in Grade 5 under the Canada · Alberta programme of studies, on the Western and Northern Canadian Protocol, as the app teaches it. 98 topics across 19 subjects: Mathematics, English, French, Spanish, Spelling, Science, Explore, Writing, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Exam technique, Brain teasers, Reading, Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music.

This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the Canada programme rather than reworded.

Reading

49 topics in Reading this year.

Comprehension and Response

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Art

9 topics in Art this year.

Drawing

• Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Grade 5: line and shape, tone and shading, perspective.

Colour

• How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Grade 5: mixing and matching, warm and cool, tints and shades, colour and feeling.

Painting

• Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Grade 5: backgrounds and layers, brush marks.

Printmaking and pattern

• Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Grade 5: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.

Sculpture and making

• Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Grade 5: joining and construction, carving and casting.

Textiles and craft

• Cloth, thread and the making traditions that most of the world learned art through. Working at Grade 5: sewing, dyeing and resist.

Digital art and photography

• The tools most children will actually use, treated as art materials rather than as a treat. Working at Grade 5: taking a photograph on purpose, framing and composition, drawing on a screen.

Looking at art

• Being able to say something true about somebody else’s work, which is half of every art curriculum and the half usually skipped. Working at Grade 5: artists from many places, what the artist did, disagreeing about art.

Sketchbook and process

• The record of the work rather than the finished piece, which is what an art course is actually assessed on. Working at Grade 5: keeping a sketchbook, trying it three ways, annotating your work, finishing a piece.

Mathematics

5 topics in Mathematics this year.

Number

• Generate and recognise equivalent fractions, and compare fractions with unlike denominators.
• Divide three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers and interpret remainders in context.
• Identify factors and multiples, and solve problems involving ratio.

Measurement

• Determine the volume of rectangular prisms and relate volume to capacity.

Statistics and Probability

• Collect and display data, and describe the likelihood of outcomes.

Physical education

4 topics in Physical education this year.

Movement skills

• The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Grade 5: throwing and catching, balance and coordination, striking and dribbling, agility and reaction, gymnastic shapes and rolls.

Fitness and the body

• What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Grade 5: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, rest, water and recovery.

Games and fair play

• How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Grade 5: playing by the rules, team positions, attacking and defending, winning and losing well.

Safety and equipment

• The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Grade 5: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries, heat, cold and water.

Health

4 topics in Health this year.

Keeping the body well

• Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Grade 5: teeth, sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.

Food and nutrition

• What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Grade 5: vitamins and minerals, water and drinks, reading a label, food safety, allergies.

Feelings and wellbeing

• Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Grade 5: naming feelings, calming down, worry, friendship and falling out, screens and comparison, asking for help.

Safety and first aid

• What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Grade 5: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, fire and emergencies, medicines.

Computing

4 topics in Computing this year.

Algorithms and programming

• Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Grade 5: loops, conditions, variables, debugging.

How computers work

• What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Grade 5: binary, files and storage, networks and the internet.

Online safety and citizenship

• Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Grade 5: passwords, scams and phishing, judging what you read, being decent online.

Creating with technology

• Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Grade 5: documents, spreadsheets, making a program, images and sound.

Social studies

4 topics in Social studies this year.

History

• What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Grade 5: sources, cause and consequence, local history.

Geography

• Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Grade 5: latitude, longitude and time zones, climate and weather, rivers, coasts and landforms.

Citizenship and government

• How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Grade 5: rights and responsibilities, how a country is run.

People, work and money

• How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Grade 5: jobs and industries, buying, selling and trade, saving and budgeting.

Exam technique

3 topics in Exam technique this year.

Assessment readiness

• Manage time and question order under test conditions.

Practice paper

• Sit a full practice paper for Grade 6 Provincial Achievement Test (Mathematics) under time.
• Sit a full practice paper for Grade 6 Provincial Achievement Test (English Language Arts) under time.

Music

3 topics in Music this year.

Beat, rhythm and pitch

• The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Grade 5: high and low, loud, quiet, fast, slow, scales and octaves.

Reading and writing music

• How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Grade 5: note values, the stave and clefs, time signatures, writing your own.

Listening and traditions

• Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Grade 5: music from many places, verse, chorus and structure, music with pictures.

Explore

2 topics in Explore this year.

Law

• Understand what a rule is, who makes law, and what fairness means in practice.

Medicine

• Understand how the body defends itself and how doctors find out what is wrong.

Quantitative reasoning

2 topics in Quantitative reasoning this year.

Reasoning · quantitative

• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).
• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).

Verbal reasoning

2 topics in Verbal reasoning this year.

Reasoning · verbal

• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).
• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).

English

1 topic in English this year.

Writing

• Use capitalisation, end punctuation and commas correctly in written work.

French

1 topic in French this year.

Vocabulary

• Use numbers, colours and days of the week in simple French sentences.

Spanish

1 topic in Spanish this year.

Vocabulary

• Use numbers and colours in simple Spanish phrases.

Spelling

1 topic in Spelling this year.

Phonics and Word Knowledge

• Apply spelling patterns and conventions to spell words accurately.

Science

1 topic in Science this year.

Physical Science

• Investigate forces and how simple machines change the effort needed to do work.

Writing

1 topic in Writing this year.

Text Forms and Structures

• Write for a specific audience and purpose, using an appropriate form.

Brain teasers

1 topic in Brain teasers this year.

Puzzles and reasoning

• Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

Every grade in the Canada curriculum · All six curricula