cc_Science_Grade 6_Express and reflect on personal, shared, or others’ experiences of place

Place is any environment, locality, or context with which people interact to learn, create memory, reflect on history, connect with culture, and establish identity. The connection between people and place is foundational to First Peoples perspectives of the world.

• Key questions about place:
  • How does place influence your ability to plan and conduct an inquiry?
  • How does your understanding of place affect the ways in which you collect evidence and evaluate it?
  • How do the place-based experiences and stories of others affect the ways in which you communicate your findings and other information?
  • Ways of knowing refers to the various beliefs about the nature of knowledge that people have; they can include, but are not limited to, Aboriginal, gender-related, subject/discipline specific, cultural, embodied and intuitive beliefs about knowledge. What are the connections between ways of knowing and place?