Grade Week 19: Feb 8-11, 2020

English Language Arts,

4/5 Social Studies and Career Education
Exploring my relationship with change might help me build my
resilience and empathy

This week, we’ll continue to explore Canadian immigration patterns. We will continue to draw on
some numeracy strategies as well as visual literacy strategies when reading infographics to help us
learn about Canada’s population changes over time. We will also turn to data collected from our own
community of learners in order to make connections to our wider community - Canada. By looking at
changes in Canada’s immigration policies and patterns, we are growing our understanding of how
Canada’s identity has been shaped by immigration of individuals from a wide range of ethic and
cultural backgrounds.
We will continue to learn about and explore our key concepts: change, empathy and resilience.

This week’s Learning Goals:

What we have learned:

We might grow resilience through changes of movement, migration, and settlement.
Exploring migration stories might help us build empathy towards others.
Exploring data from the Census of Population helps us grow our understanding of
experiences of the past, present and future.

Things to keep in mind:

Read through this weekly plan together as a family
Tune into your webinar on Tuesday and Thursday
Try reading around 20 - 30 minutes every day

What we can document:

Canadian Immigration in Infographics
Our Community: What does the data tell us? (2 pages)
Critical Response and Reflection

These key words can be examined, reviewed, used in family discussions or, if
What words you’d like, added to your word wall this week:

Change, Empathy, Resilience, Movement, Migration, Settlement, Immigration,
do we need Emigration, Push Factor, Pull Factor, Refugee, Immigrant
to know? Identity, Community, Population, Programs, Service, Data, Graph,
Relationship, Infographic
 Your Webinars
Tune in to the webinars to learn more about people have found resilience through the changes of
movement, migration, or settlement. Webinars will provide detailed instructions and examples for each
learning experience provided in your weekly plan.

It’s WEBINAR day!

T Your webinar begins at 9:30 and goes until 9:55. Please click here for your
webinar link. The ID 638 1931 5975 and the password is 853500.
Today, we will:
Review
Review key terms used to describe migration.
Review of classification of immigrants.
Explore and Think
Reading Infographics
What are they?
Why do we use them?
How do we read them? “SCD" strategy
“Immigration at a Glance” and “Immigration to Canada in 2019"
Key Terms: landed immigrant, non-residents, travellers permanent resident,
citizenship, IRCC, temporary worker, GBA
Apply SCD to determine purpose and main idea
Make Connections
Comparing Census data and our learning community.
Values on bar graphs
What’s told? What’s missing?
How is the data connected to world events, Canada’s standing and reputation,
and immigration policy?

It’s WEBINAR day!

Th Your webinar begins at 9:30 and goes until 9:55. Please click here for your webinar link. The
ID 616 2506 4608 and the password is 501909.

Today, we will:

Explore and Think

A look at urbanization and provincial population numbers: changes over time and future
projections
How can immigration data be used to shape future decision-making?
Annual Report on Immigration: What is it? Why does it matter? What do you
think should be reported?
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Canadian Immigration in Infographics
Review
Since 1980, the Canadian Government has categorized immigrants entering into
the country under 4 main classifications: Economic, Family, Humanitarian, and
Other.
Explore
In this first learning task, you are invited to look at some infographics to uncover
some key data and information about immigration in Canada.
Infographic: a chart, diagram, or illustration that uses graphic elements to present
information in a visually appealing way. Infographics often show information “at a
glance” to give key or important information quickly to a reader.
As a learning community, we have read books, articles, and pictures. We read
infographics, just like any other text, so we will go through some thinking routines
and strategies to help us read and understand these infographics.
Think
Look at each of the infographics on the following two pages.
Think and respond to the prompts on the handout attached on page 6, Canadian
Immigration in Infographics.
Government of Canada infographic accessed from https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-
citizenship/news/2018/10/infographic-immigration-at-a-glance.html

Immigration at a Glance

In 2017, 56%
of permanent resident In 2017-2018,
admissions were in the international migration
Economic Class. accounted for 80%
of population growth.
(Source: Statistics Canada)

In 2017, economic
immigrants residing in
93%of immigrants
have knowledge of
Canada for at least 5 years
English or French.
exceeded Canadian
average earnings by 6% (Source: Census 2016)

In 2017,
our ambitious multi-year
immigration levels plan
In 2017,

39% to aid economic growth

of economic
immigrants
was unveiled.
settled outside
Montreal, Toronto,
or Vancouver.

Over

In 2017, Canada admitted 130% increase in

citizenship applications
65,417 new permanent
residents from October 2017
in the Economic Class through to June 2018.
the Express Entry application
management system.
 Immigration to Canada in 2019
Government of Canada infographic accessed from https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-
citizenship/news/2020/10/infographic-immigration-to-canada-in-2019.html

5,774,342
travel documents were issued to visitors,
Permanent and non-permanent
immigration accounted for

workers and students.

over 80%
of Canada’s population growth.

404,369 About
temporary work permits
were issued under the temporary
foreign worker and international
58%
of permanent residents
mobility programs.
were admitted under
the economic category.

74,586
individuals transitioned
from temporary to permanent
residents.

341,180 30,087
permanent residents refugees resettled,
were admitted in Canada. the highest number
of any state worldwide.

About
8,500 French-speaking
permanent residents
were admitted to Canada outside Quebec
with additional support for francophone
communities across Canada.

IRCC created, implemented and expanded

10 different programs and initiatives related to GBA+.

 Canadian Immigration in Infographics
Look at each of the following infographics: Immigration at a Glance and Immigration to Canada in
2019 on the previous 2 pages.

How is the information connected to something What new information or data extended your
you already know about Canadian thinking in new directions?
Immigration?

What is challenging or confusing What do you What images stand out? How do they help you
wonder about? What questions do you still understand the information?
have?

What is the main idea of each infographic?

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Immigration Data: Our Learning Community
Explore
Let’s turn to our community. By looking at our community data, we might come to
understand the diversity and patterns that exist in our stories of migration. We
might also see the connections or differences between our community and the rest
of Canada.
Last week, you responded to our class Menti poll. The polling is now closed, and
the results are shared on the following 3 pages. To gather data from a broader
community, results include our entire Transitional Learning community of
intermediate students from Grades 4-7.
Think
Look at each of the pairs of graphs and tables on the following three pages.
Think and respond to the prompts on the handouts attached on pages 11 and 12,
Our Community: What does the data tell us?
Respond to the “Critical Response and Reflection” on page 13.
 Annual Arrival of Immigrants

CANADA’S DATA

OUR LEARNING
COMMUNITY’S DATA
 Immigration Admission Categories

CANADA’S DATA

Immigration Admission Categories 1980-2016, Data gathered from Statistics Canada

Admission Total 1980-1990 1991-2000 2001-2010 2011-2016

Category (1980-2016)

Total 5,703,615 1,019,845 1,486,655 1,985,030 1,212,080

Economic 2,994,135 428,355 698,040 1,136,620 731,115

Family 1,782,485 355,340 529,845 572,710 324,590

Refugee 858,850 229,120 242,275 246,940 140,515

Other 68,145 7,030 16,495 28,770 15,855

OUR LEARNING
COMMUNITY’S DATA

Admission Category Total (1980-2020)

Total 219

Economic 74

Family 74

Refugee 9

Other 62
 Immigration Population by Place of Birth
Canada’s Immigration Population by Places of Birth 1980-2016, Data gathered from Statistics Canada

CANADA’S DATA

Africa to Canada
637,485 immigrants

Europe to Canada
2,088,400 immigrants

Asia to Canada
3,629,165 immigrants

Americas to Canada
1,127,810 immigrants

OUR LEARNING
COMMUNITY’S DATA

Note: Oceania was not a

response option in the
initial questionnaire and
a correction was made
later in the week.
Apologies for the
omission, and this result
of 0 for Oceania may not
be precise.
 Our Community: What does the data tell us?
Look at each of the pairs of data of Canada vs. Our Learning Community on the previous 3 pages.
What do you see?
Annual Arrival of Immigrants

What do these bar graphs What are the highest and What else do you notice?
show? lowest values on the graphs?
When do they occur?

Immigration Admission Categories

What do these tables show? What are the highest and lowest values on the tables?
For which categories? How does it connect to the information
presented in the Immigration at a Glance infographic?

What else do you notice?

Immigration Population by Place of Birth

What do these pie charts What are the highest and What else do you notice?
show? lowest values? From which
continents?
 Our Community: What does the data tell us?
Look at each of the pairs of data of Canada vs. Our Learning Community on the previous 3 pages.
Consider the similarities and differences. Why do YOU think there are differences in the data?

Annual Arrival of Immigrants

What is similar? What is different? What might be the reason(s)

for any differences?

Immigration Admission Categories

What is similar? What is different? What might be the reason(s)

for any differences?

Immigration Population by Place of Birth

What is similar? What is different? What might be the reason(s)

for any differences?
Critical Response and Reflection
Look at the tables, charts, graphs above. Who is not represented? What information is missing?
Who or what do you want to know more about? In your response, provide examples from the
texts above.

Be sure to ask yourself these questions after you have completed your learning tasks this week:
Have I responded to all the questions and instructions?
Have I offered my unique thinking and ideas?
Have I shown my understanding of terms and concepts? Take another look!
Is what created clear? Does it make sense?
Have I done my personal best?
Am I happy with my work?

Have you These are the learning tasks from this week that can show your growth,
skills, and understanding of key ideas. With your transitional teacher,
documented
determine the tasks you will document and then post or email them.
your learning Canadian Immigration in Infographics
this week? Our Community: What does the data tell us? (2 pages)
Critical Response and Reflection