Hi everyone,
For my genius hour this week, I have decided to look closer at some specific activities and how I can connect them to different stands/expectations of the grade 9 curriculum.
Last week, these are some of the curriculum expectations and some topics that I've related them to.
1. Housing costs/trends -> C3.1, B3.5, A2, B1.1
2. Public heath statistics of different countries-> C3.1, B3.5, A2
3. Crimes and racial profiling -> C3.1, B3.5, A2
4. Passion project on a social justice topic (student choice -> D2.2, D2.3, D2.4, A2
5. Women in STEM/Pay inequality -> A2, F1.1, F1.4
For this post, I will be focusing on Housing Trends, and how they relate to the grade 9 expectations (C3.1, B1.1, B3.5 and A2)
I was able to find an activity that a teacher has done with their students! You can find the link here! I also made my first mini-activity that can be used as a warm-up in a grade 9 math class! Yay!
Looking at this activity that has students, graph and find patterns of housing costs, I can add some reflection questions to see how living on minimum wage or less can make it really difficult for people to live comfortably.
I created the following mini-activity to help students ease into the topic. This lesson could be at the beginning where students are learning to use a set of numbers to graph and understand what the set of data is saying. That being said, I think this would be a good activity to get the ball turning around the topic of minimum wage and how it can be hard to live on that when having to pay rent, etc. This activity could also connect nicely into creating budgets and having to think about income and living expenses!
Check out my activity below, or use this link!
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