The following contexts and descriptors are useful as organizers. By considering the contexts when planning units, teachers can ensure that students experience a range and a variety of issues and ideas throughout the year. As well, by using contexts as organizers, interdisciplinary units may be developed. Each unit of study may address one or more of the contexts. The descriptors are meant to explain the context, not to limit it.
Teachers can use the descriptors to identify broad or narrow unit topics and themes.
The following chart lists the sample units included in this curriculum, and adds suggestions for other unit topics and themes which teachers may interpret and develop to address the needs of their particular students.