What your child learns in Grade 9 in New Brunswick
Grade 9 is the start of the high school block. Students work with powers, rational numbers, polynomials and linear relations, and in science they bring together ideas from earlier grades (ecosystems, matter, cells and the universe). Social Studies 9 explores Canadian identities, governance and rights.
Grade 9 subjects in the New Brunswick Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Number: Number Sense. Describe numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.
- Number: Operations. Apply the order of operations, including exponents.
- Statistics and Probability: Data Analysis. Compare and critique the presentation of data.
7 units, including exponents & powers, rational numbers, linear relations, multi-step equations.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Interactions: Expression. Construct and communicate personal strengths and an awareness of self, others, and the world including awareness of digital and AI-influenced environments.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Seek and provide clarification and explanation of ideas and concepts, problems, and solutions.
- Interactions: Reception. Critically reflect on the contributions of others and extend my understanding.
11 units, including word detective, forms & features, close reading, literary elements.
Science
Big Ideas
- Grade focus: Synthesis of the Grades 3 to 8 science topics: Earth and its place in the universe; ecosystems; molecules to organisms; biological evolution.
- Scientific Literacy: Investigation. Plan investigations to answer questions about relationships between and among variables observed in the solar system, ecosystems, and molecules and organisms.
- Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking. Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
11 units, including reproduction, cells from cells, atoms & electrons, inside the atom.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Geography: Places and Regions. Investigate basic features of Canada’s landscape and climate.
- Geography: Human Systems and Interactions. Analyze the effect of human settlement on place over time.
- History: Events and Peoples. Analyze various perceptions of identities in Canada.
7 units, including canada's landscapes, settlement & living conditions, identities & migration in canada, how canada is governed.
French Immersion
Big Ideas
- Intercultural competencies: Intercultural awareness. Develop an awareness of and reflect on the role of languages and cultures in shaping identity.
- Intercultural competencies: Intercultural knowledge. Understand the ways of knowing, doing and being of French-speaking cultures and other cultures
- Intercultural competencies: Intercultural skills. Apply intercultural skills and positive attitudes towards cultures and languages.
9 units, including registres et exposés oraux, la fable, le roman et ses personnages, les figures de style.
Core French
Big Ideas
- Oral Communication: Speak, Listen, Communicate, Interact. Communicate preferences, qualities, comparisons, critiques, hypotheses, and syntheses effectively.
- Reading and Viewing: Read, Comprehend, Respond, Interpret. Read and view texts pertaining to interests, preferences, emotions, influences, injustices, and social responsibilities.
- Writing and Representing: Create Simple Texts. Write about and represent preferences, activities, emotions, information, influences, and injustices.
11 units, including past, present, future, asking questions, putting events in order, needs and opinions.
What to look for on the report card
Look for comments on planning ahead for course choices, explaining reasoning in math and weighing perspectives in social studies and English. Grade 9 courses receive a numerical grade.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding. See what each level means.
The Global Competencies grow through every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about global competencies.
Ready for Grade 9?
Grade 9 builds on what your child practised in Grade 8. If a skill feels shaky, a few short practice sessions before or early in the year can help:
- Math: squares, cubes & roots, pythagorean theorem, integer operations, fraction operations, percents & money
- English Language Arts: word study, reading detective, forms, patterns & visuals, close reading, whose story is it?
- Science: cells & life processes, particles & matter, viscosity & flow, density & buoyancy, pressure & pascal's law
- Social Studies: new brunswick & confederation, early black communities, wabanaki governance & empowerment, rights, reform & taking action
- French Immersion: les registres de langue, parler et se faire comprendre, la légende, le théâtre, le schéma narratif
- Core French: past, present, future, asking questions, how often?, opinions and reasons, comparing and contrasting
Common questions
Grade 9 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, french immersion, core french in the New Brunswick Curriculum. Grade 9 is the start of the high school block. Students work with powers, rational numbers, polynomials and linear relations, and in science they bring together ideas from earlier grades (ecosystems, matter, cells and the universe). Social Studies 9 explores Canadian identities, governance and rights.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding.
Short, regular practice works better than long sessions: 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week, on the skills your child's teacher flags. Read together, use math in real life, and praise effort.
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