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Exploring Personal Worldviews

Create a profile of your worldview that is consistent with your actual behaviour.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 8.1.1 - Students will appreciate the roles of time and geographic location in shaping a society’s worldview (C, I, TCC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 8.1.2 - Students will appreciate how a society’s worldview can foster the choice to remain an isolated society (C, I, TCC)
Specific Outcome 8.1.3 - Students will appreciate how models of governance and decision making reflect a society’s worldview (C, I, TCC, PADM)
Specific Outcome 8.1.4 - Students will appreciate how a society’s worldview shapes individual citizenship and identity (C, I, TCC)
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.2 - Students will evaluate ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.4 - Students will re-evaluate personal opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 8.S.1.5 - Students will generate creative ideas and strategies in individual and group activities
Specific Outcome 8.S.4.4 - Students will participate in and predict outcomes of problem-solving and decision-making scenarios
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.3 - Students will draw conclusions based upon research and evidence
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.13 - Students will make connections among related, organized data, and assemble various pieces into a unified message
Specific Outcome 8.S.8.3 - Students will elicit, clarify and respond appropriately to questions, ideas and multiple points of view presented in discussions
Specific Outcome 8.S.8.4 - Students will offer reasoned comments relating to a topic of discussion
Specific Outcome 8.S.8.5 - Students will listen to others to understand their points of view
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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