Unit Plan

Schedule
Week 1
Humanity
&
Disasters
Social Studies
Science
English
Language Arts

Day 1
Fort McMurray
Provocation

Day 2
Disasters Overview &
Group Case Studies
Research Time

Who would you

save from a fire?
Provocation
Activity &
Essential
Question

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

What Disasters would

Calgary Face?
Flex time for case
study research

Presentation of
Disaster Case
Studies

Humanity World
Cafe

Glenbow Museum &

Music Centre Day trip

Identity and the

Environment
Blackout Poetry
(News Articles
from the Calgary
Flood)

Fish Creek Park

& Bow River
Flood Damage

Class Identity
Collage Work
Day

Class identity
Collage Sharing
Journal: How do
you express your

Journal: Reflect
and provide your
own response to
the essential
question

Journal: How do
you define
humanity?
Week 2
Community
&
Identity

Classroom Sharing
Circle - Where is
our Identity in our
Community?

City Planner Seminar

Science
Social Studies
Art
Music
English
Language Arts
Week 3
Community
&
Identity

Class Debrief and

Discussions of
Trips

Presentation of Trip
Findings: How
Calgarys Identity is
influenced by the

Journal: What is
important in your own
identity?
Begin work on Class

Science
Art
Health &
Wellness
English
Language Arts
Week 4
Relationships
Science
Social Studies
Mathematics

Week 5
Relationships
Science
Social Studies
Mathematics

Art
Week 6
Power
Social Studies
Science
English
Language Arts

Journal: How is
our identity as
humans reflected
in our
community?

environment and viceversa

Identity Collage

Evolution of
Calgary and
Introduction to
Building Our
Own City

Map Making Lecture

from Cartographer

Google My Maps
Calgary Activity

Journal: How are

relationships
formed in a City?
Between who or
what?

Make Map of City w/

formative feedback

View Historical Maps

of Calgary

Make Map of City w/

formative feedback

identity?

Introduction of
City Map Making
Activity and
Shapes and Space
Lecture

Shapes and Space

Lecture II and
Planning day

Peer Assessment
of City Map

Final touches to
City Map
Journal: Why are
cities important
spaces for
humanity to
thrive?

City Map
Working Day
Types of Power
Concept Mapping
Journal: What
does it mean to
have power?

Political Power: Lesson

on Forms of
Governance

Resources: Lesson on
types of resources and
how they are tied to
power

Oppression of
Power:
Indigenous Case
Study

Bring in
Indigenous Elder
Begin Novel
Study of Louis
Riel for
weekend

Week 7
Power
Social Studies
Drama
English
Language Arts
Week 8
Sustainability
&
Growth
Science
Mathematics
Social Studies

North-West
Rebellion
Novel Study:
Louis Riel
Comic

Visit to Tsuu
Tina Nation: An
exploration of
sustainability and
growth in a first
nations
community

Novel Study: Louis

Riel Comic
Journal: How can
Power be distributed
fairly among humans?

Structures and forces

from lens of
sustainability

Discussion of Novel
& Begin
Governmental Policy
Development

Governmental
Policy Work Day

Governmental
Policy
Submission

Structures and Forces

continued

Discussion on
Interactions and
Ecosystems:
What interactions
would you
envision in our
city?

Visit to
University of
Calgary
Environmental
Design
Department

Begin discussion
Interactions and
Ecosystems: Calgary
Case Study

Journal: As
communities and
individuals grow,
what is worth
sustaining?

Journal: How can

communities
grow and sustain
themselves?
Week 9
Tying it all
Together &
Showcase
Prep
Science
Social Studies
Mathematics
Fine Arts (Art,
Drama,
Music)
Health &
Wellness

Class Reflection
on what humanity
means
Begin studentlead discussion on
what to bring to
showcase of
humanity
(structures,
performance, art,
technology etc.)

Groups split into

showcase projects and
begin work (on what
they want to pursue).
Possible showcase
pieces:
-Dramatic
Performance/Dance
-Video Game Story
-Art Gallery
-3-D model of City
-Presentation of
Identity Collages, City
Maps, Governmental

Build Rubric for

Cross group peerassessments/teacher
summative
assessment

Showcase &
Poster work day

Showcase &
Poster work day

English
Language Arts

Journal: How has

your view on
what humanity
means expanded?

Week 10
Showcase
Performance

Do cross-group
peers assessments
for each showcase
piece

Science
Social Studies
Mathematics
Fine Arts (Art,
Drama,
Music)
Health &
Wellness
English
Language Arts

Continue work on
showcase

Policy, Journals

Showcase work day

based on peer feedback

Final Showcase work

day and rehearsal

Showcase
rehearsal and
final touches

Showcase
Performance at
the University of
Calgary Nickel
Galleries