New Brunswick Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
New Brunswick Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Finished teaching units for New Brunswick classrooms: four levels of worksheets, an editable slide deck, complete answer keys and a timed lesson plan, written to the concepts your subject outcomes describe.
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Units for New Brunswick classrooms
Open with the short values-and-money lesson, carry on through the consumer ethics unit for the middle years and the consumer-rights and costing units for senior high, and take the food-industry bundle for a longer run.
Wheel of Life Lesson: Connecting Money to Your Real Values
Consumer Ethics: Fast Fashion & Sustainability – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Consumer Protection and the Right of Withdrawal
Cost Accounting and Costing – Fundamentals
Nutrition, Health & Food Industry Bundle | High School Biology, Health Science & Business Teaching Resources
Why teachers here use these
The planning New Brunswick teachers do twice
New Brunswick plans its teaching in outcomes, and it plans them twice. The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development runs an Anglophone Sector and a Francophone Sector with separate curricula, separate districts and separate policy documents — which is what being Canada's only officially bilingual province looks like from inside a staff room. Your outcomes come from your own sector's documents, and material written elsewhere rarely lines up with them clause by clause. There is no single province-wide graduation examination to plan backwards from either: assessment and reporting sit inside each sector, under its own Assessment and Evaluation and Reports on Achievement documents. The Anglophone Sector released a new province-wide education plan in 2026, so the frame around all of this is moving while classes carry on as normal. Under those conditions the useful purchase is not another framework. It is a finished unit — practice at four levels, an editable deck, the answers already worked — that you can line up against your own outcomes in an afternoon and teach on Monday morning.
A sequence you can run
Five lessons, in the order you would teach them
A unit is a sequence rather than a single period, so one download carries a class through about a fortnight and still leaves harder material for whoever needs it.
- Put a decision in front of themThe opening lesson hands students a choice somebody has to make — what to buy, what a contract commits you to, what a product costs to produce — and asks them to argue a position.
- Supply the language for the argumentThe second worksheet introduces the terms their first answers were reaching for. Vocabulary lands better here than in a definition list, because students have already felt the gap.
- Practise the method on new materialA second case, the same procedure. This lesson separates the students who have the method from those who reproduced the shape of the first answer without following the reasoning.
- Build the finished pieceThe main task asks for something complete: a costed proposal, a reasoned response, a written recommendation. Lower tiers start from a partial template, upper tiers from a blank page.
- Mark it against the outcomeThe closing task comes with a full answer key, so what you record is measured against a stated expectation rather than an impression built up over two weeks.
What's covered
What is inside every download
Each unit is complete on arrival: the practice written at four levels, every answer worked out, and files that open in the software already installed on your school laptop.
- Four levels of worksheets
- Editable slide deck
- Answer keys throughout
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital versions
- Word and PowerPoint files
Make it work in your building
How these fit a New Brunswick school
Reporting in New Brunswick is written against outcomes, which puts a particular weight on the work students actually produce. Four tiers of the same task help there: the reading load and the amount of scaffolding change, but the underlying question does not, so a sheet from the lower level and one from the upper level can sit in the same folder and still be read against the same outcome. That is what makes the material worth keeping after the unit ends. When a report card comment, a parent meeting or a support plan review comes round, you are working from dated pieces of marked writing rather than from memory and a column of participation marks.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Is this material official New Brunswick curriculum?
No. These are independent teaching resources, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills that subject outcomes describe for its grade band, which is a narrower claim than alignment and we keep it narrow on purpose. Anglophone and Francophone sector documents differ, so open the preview with your own sector's outcomes beside it and judge the fit yourself before spending anything.
How do these fit provincial assessment and reporting?
Provincial assessment and reporting in New Brunswick is sector-specific, handled through each sector's own Assessment and Evaluation and Reports on Achievement documents, and there is no single unified province-wide graduation examination for these units to be aimed at. What they give you is classwork: practice at four levels, subject vocabulary, and written tasks with complete answer keys that produce something markable. We make no claim about results on any provincial measure.
Can I use a unit with a grade above or below the band shown?
Often, and the four tiers are the reason. A Grade 9 class can work the lower two levels of a unit labelled for Grades 9 to 12 while a senior group takes the upper two, and nothing in the lesson plan changes. Stretching more than a year in either direction is worth testing in the preview first, because the examples and the reading level are pitched at an age even when the method underneath is identical.
Will the written work stand up as assessment evidence?
That is what the closing task is for. Every unit ends with written work that has a full answer key behind it, so the mark reflects a stated expectation rather than a general impression. Because all four tiers ask the same underlying question, work from different levels is comparable in the same mark book. Keep the sheets and you have dated, in-class evidence to bring to a report card, a parent meeting or a school team discussion.
Could we use these in department or professional learning time?
Schools do use them that way. A finished unit gives colleagues something concrete to examine: the deck shows a sequence, the four tiers show what differentiation looks like on paper, and the answer keys show the standard of response being asked for. Every teacher who will teach from the material needs their own copy, so a group buying together should count one licence per teacher rather than circulating a single file.
A new provincial education plan came out in 2026. Will these still fit?
A new plan reshapes priorities and reporting before it rewrites every subject outcome, and units written to concepts rather than to document numbering tend to survive that kind of change. The files are editable, so when your sector's guidance shifts you can adjust a task or retitle a section instead of starting again. Our advice stays the same: check the preview against the outcomes you are working from this term.
One download, several weeks of teaching
The nutrition and food-industry bundle gathers a set of finished units into a single file, already sequenced.
See the bundle →