MY STUDENTS IN THE MIDDLE YEARS:
A RESOURCE FOR EDUCATORS
& SCHOOL LEADERS

Curriculum Resources

Support Documents
(for Compulsory and Optional Subject Areas)

The following teacher support documents, available on the Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning website, focus on Middle Years learning in the various subject areas from Grades 5 to 8.

Arts Education

• The Arts Education website provides links to resources in this subject area.
• The Kindergarten to Grade 8 Brochure summarizes the Kindergarten to Grade 8 recursive learnings in dance, music, dramatic arts and visual arts.

English Language Arts

• The English Language Arts website provides links to resources in this subject area.
• English Language Arts, Kindergarten to Grade 8 provides general and specific learning outcomes by grade, as well as outcomes maps for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
• Grades 5 to 8 English Language Arts: A Foundation for Implementation includes a discussion of The Middle Years Learner.
• Me Read? No Way! A Practical Guide to Improving Boys’ Literacy Skills suggests practical strategies that teachers can use to support student success in literacy.
• Reading and Writing in Action is an instructional and classroom-based assessment resource that consists of two vignettes showing two different Grade 8 classroom communities engaged in making meaning through reading and writing.

Mathematics

• The Mathematics website provides links to resources in this subject area.
• Developing Conceptual Understanding of Number offers a series of number sense learning activities intended to stimulate mathematical thinking and discussion.
• Grade 5 Mathematics: Support Document for Teachers (which includes Blackline Masters) provides various suggestions for instruction, assessment strategies, and learning resources meant to promote the meaningful engagement of mathematics learners in Grade 5. The document is intended to be used by teachers as they work with students in achieving the learning outcomes and achievement indicators identified in Kindergarten to Grade 8 Mathematics: Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes.
• Grade 6 Mathematics: Support Document for Teachers (which includes Blackline Masters) provides various suggestions for instruction, assessment strategies, and learning resources meant to promote the meaningful engagement of mathematics learners in Grade 6. The document is intended to be used by teachers as they work with students in achieving the learning outcomes and achievement indicators identified in Kindergarten to Grade 8 Mathematics: Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes.
• Grade 7 Mathematics: Support Document for Teachers (which includes Blackline Masters) provides various suggestions for instruction, assessment strategies, and learning resources meant to promote the meaningful engagement of mathematics learners in Grade 7. The document is intended to be used by teachers as they work with students in achieving the learning outcomes and achievement indicators identified in Kindergarten to Grade 8 Mathematics: Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes.
• Grade 8 Mathematics: Support Document for Teachers (which includes Blackline Masters) provides various suggestions for instruction, assessment strategies, and learning resources meant to promote the meaningful engagement of mathematics learners in Grade 8. The document is intended to be used by teachers as they work with students in achieving the learning outcomes and achievement indicators identified in Kindergarten to Grade 8 Mathematics: Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes.
• Middle Years Activities and Games offers a variety of classroom-based learning activities and games to supplement mathematics instruction and to solidify mathematics concepts.

Physical Education/Health Education

• The Physical Education/Health Education: Grades 5 to 8 website links to resources in this subject area.
• Grades 5 to 8 Physical Education/Health Education: A Foundation for Implementation contains an Overview that describes the characteristics of Middle Years learners, discusses the Middle Years philosophy for effective programming, elaborates on the guiding principles for creating a meaningful learning environment, and provides suggestions for planning integrated and balanced physical education/health education programming.
• Human Sexuality: A Resource for Kindergarten to Grade 8 Physical Education/Health Education supports educators in implementing the human sexuality learning outcomes identified for Grades 5 and 7 students in Manitoba.
• Manitoba Sourcebook: Guidance Education: Connections to Compulsory Curriculum Areas Kindergarten to Grade 12 contains a Middle Years section that identifies specific learning outcomes for guidance education, as well as connections to compulsory subject areas.
• Planning Tools for Kindergarten to Grade 10 contains planning checklists, including a Grades 5 to 8 Sample Yearly Plan for organizing the year by general learning outcomes in physical education/health education.

Science

• The Science website provides links to resources in this subject area.

Social Studies

• The Social Studies: Grades 5 to 8 website provides links to resources in this subject area. It also identifies the Key Concepts: Grades 5 to 8.

Technology Education

Technology education provides students with opportunities for solving problems, designing, performing essential skills, constructing products, and addressing current trends and issues. Technology education includes the courses found in the subject areas of human ecology and industrial arts.

• The Technology Education: Home Economics website provides links to Middle Years curriculum and support documents for home economics/human ecology and industrial arts.
• Middle Years Human Ecology: Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes is intended for use in Grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 and includes a description of the characteristics of Middle Years students and the ideal learning climate.