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Ready-to-teach units for Vancouver teachers, from birds through the seasons and frogs in the ecosystem to land art with natural materials and film music analysis. Use them indoors or take the learning outside.
Curriculum alignment guaranteed by TeachLessons.
Vancouver teachers plan with BC's Curriculum, which is organized around Big Ideas, Curricular Competencies and Content. These are the points we keep in mind when choosing units for the city.
| Curriculum framework | BC's Curriculum, organized around Big Ideas, Curricular Competencies and Content |
|---|---|
| Authority | BC Ministry of Education and Child Care |
| Grade names | Kindergarten and Grades 1–12; the Graduation Program covers Grades 10–12 (Dogwood Diploma) |
| Key assessments | Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) in Grades 4 and 7; Graduation Numeracy and Literacy Assessments in Grade 10 and a Literacy Assessment in Grade 12 |
| Main school system | Vancouver School Board (School District No. 39), with 87 elementary schools including annexes and 18 secondary schools |
| Languages | VSB reports that 46% of students speak a language other than English at home, with 160 languages identified |
| Local teaching hook | VSB schools are on the ancestral, unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations |
These eight units reflect what Vancouver teachers often plan around: ecology, outdoor learning, visual art and media. Each is an instant digital download for print or screen.
Students investigate biodiversity, succession, food webs, trophic cascades, resilience and restoration ecology through scientific case studies. The unit is built around systems thinking and sustainable decision-making, with approximately 60 printable pages.
Students follow a frog from spawn to adult, study its adaptations to water and land, place it in the food web, and look at threats and protection strategies. Includes texts, worksheets, differentiated versions and answer keys.
Students collect and sort natural materials, arrange lines, circles and patterns outdoors, and document their temporary work with photographs. Three topics with three worksheets each, answer keys, lesson plans and a presentation per topic.
A four-lesson unit on how birds live through the year: seasonal food, nests and chicks, migration and helping birds in winter. Includes an explorer booklet, a Migrants and Residents jigsaw and slides.
Students hear one scene with two different scores, then build a vocabulary of function, diegesis, scoring and ostinato before scoring a scene themselves. Six lessons with worksheets, answer keys, reading texts and an editable presentation.
Students practise framing and the rule of thirds, camera viewpoint and angle, and the direction and quality of light. The photography unit includes nine worksheets, answer keys and slides for Grades 7–9.
A workbook on power, root, exponential and logarithmic functions, with step-by-step graph transformations and the effect of each parameter. Differentiated worksheets, activities, slides and answer keys for Grades 9–12.
A short Grade 3 story with comprehension tasks (multiple choice, sequencing and open questions), vocabulary exercises and creative writing prompts. Includes an answer key, for print or digital classrooms.
Each collection groups units by subject and level, so you can plan the next step after a featured unit.
Use these suggestions to extend your planning. Local examples and activities below are teaching ideas to add, rather than a list of files included in every product.
Run a ten-minute bird count once a week from September to June and record species, numbers and weather. Students will likely see robins, crows and chickadees, and may spot Anna's hummingbirds in winter. Compare the data with the migration lesson in Birds Through the Year and ask what changed and why.
Take the Land Art unit outside and use only fallen leaves, cones, twigs and stones from the school grounds. Students photograph their arrangement, leave everything as they found it, and write a short caption using the unit's terms for line, pattern and transience.
Vancouver is a busy centre for film and television production. After the Film Music Analysis unit, students film a short, silent clip of a familiar place near school, then score it twice with contrasting music and explain how each score changes what the viewer feels.
TeachLessons guarantees alignment with BC's Curriculum. This guarantee covers the subjects, learning objectives and levels stated in each product description.
No. TeachLessons is an independent publisher with no affiliation to the Vancouver School Board or the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care. Teachers choose our resources themselves and decide how they fit their own planning, school policies and local protocols.
They support the literacy and numeracy skills behind the Foundation Skills Assessment in Grades 4 and 7 and the Graduation Assessments in Grades 10 and 12, but they are not practice tests. Use official sample materials to show students the assessment format.
Start with the grade range on each product card and then read the learning objectives in the product description. Many units have differentiated worksheets, so one unit can serve a mixed class. For English learners, a unit listed for a lower grade may be the better fit.
Every resource is an instant digital download. Most include printable worksheets and slides for projection, and many files are editable. You can print them for lessons outdoors or on paper, or share them digitally with your class.
The units are written for general classroom use, so the local connections come from you. Local birds, frogs in nearby wetlands, natural materials on the school grounds and the city's film industry all make good links. Work with your school's Indigenous education staff on any Indigenous content.
Choose one featured unit, teach it in your classroom first, then take one lesson outside. The subject collections above hold more science, art and math units for the rest of the year.