September: Curriculum Resources for Project

Question #2:

Retrieved from Mifflin County Schools

 

You asked me to explore the science standards for British Columbia.  I also decided to add the Victoria School District as most of the students that may benefit from this program are located within the Greater Victoria Area and the Royal BC Museum as they would be an excellent partner in these efforts and have many wonderful educational resources.  The Links to all of these sites can be found in this blog.  You can access key documents including science curriculum maps and the thematic strands for science grades K-10.  Grade 11 is unique and would need to be accessed separately.  

Information from the Victoria School District on Science:

At this stage I could not find any significant information to report.  This is probably due to key differences between the US educational system where I am from and the Canadian one.  David Blades told me that curriculum decisions tend to be made at the Provincial or Ministerial level here.  However, I believe that most secondary science teachers work on these issues in the schools the work in and in advisory committees in their respective districts where I believe we can share our work and resources with them for use by secondary students once the program is in place.  I am continuing to work on this and am planning on visiting the District office to learn more about science education efforts locally here in the Greater Victoria Area. 

Retrieved from Seaquaria Educational Resource Center

Suggestions

• We might want to find out when and where the local regional and provincial science education conferences and meetings might be taking place and go there to present your Department’s work once this program is more developed. 
•  I would be happy to go and present anything we develop and share it with educators here in British Columbia and/or possibly in Washington State (bonus international connection).