What your child learns in Grade 9 in PEI
Grade 9 is the last intermediate year. Math includes powers, rational numbers, polynomials and linear relations. Science brings together biodiversity and the sustainability of ecosystems, patterns in atoms, elements and compounds, and electricity. Social studies, called Global Connections, looks at geography, population, globalization, sustainability and social action.
Grade 9 subjects in the Prince Edward Island Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Number. Demonstrate an understanding of powers with integral bases (excluding base 0) and whole number exponents.
- Patterns and Relations. Generalize a pattern arising from a problem-solving context using linear equations and verify by substitution.
- Shape and Space. Develop and apply the Pythagorean theorem to solve problems.
9 units, including exponents & powers, rational numbers, square roots, linear relations.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
- Speaking and Listening. Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
14 units, including reading with a purpose, close reading, summarizing texts, literary elements.
Science
Big Ideas
- Biodiversity & Sustainability of Ecosystems.
- Patterns in Atoms, Elements, and Compounds.
- Understanding Electricity.
14 units, including ecosystems in balance, biodiversity & heredity, sustainable ecosystems, inside the atom.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Citizenship, Power, and Governance. Learners will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the origins, functions, and sources of power, authority, and governance.
- Culture and Diversity. Learners will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of culture, diversity, and worldview, recognizing the similarities and differences reflected in various personal, cultural, racial, and ethnic perspectives.
- Individuals, Societies, and Economic Decisions. Social studies provides learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to make personal economic decisions and to participate in the process of societal economic decision-making.
9 units, including thinking like a geographer, maps, graphs & data, world climates and biomes, where people settle.
Core French
Big Ideas
- Core French. The Grades 7 to 9 program builds confidence in learning and using French through purposeful, action-oriented tasks set in authentic contexts.
7 units, including needs and opinions, asking questions, putting events in order, comparing amounts.
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.
PEI report cards describe learning with Beginning, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding. See what each level means.
The CAMET competencies grow through exploratory learning and every subject in the intermediate years. Read about camet 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, integer operations, fraction operations, ratios, rates & proportions, patterns & two-step equations
- English Language Arts: reading detective, word study, close reading, whose story is it?, literary devices
- Science: water on earth, oceans, currents & climate, viscosity & flow, density & buoyancy, pressure & pascal's law
- Social Studies: what is canadian identity?, newcomers and communities, land & identity, sources & evidence, decades of change
- Core French: past, present, future, how often?, opinions and reasons, comparing and contrasting, sounds and letters
Common questions
Grade 9 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, core french in the Prince Edward Island Curriculum. Grade 9 is the last intermediate year. Math includes powers, rational numbers, polynomials and linear relations. Science brings together biodiversity and the sustainability of ecosystems, patterns in atoms, elements and compounds, and electricity. Social studies, called Global Connections, looks at geography, population, globalization, sustainability and social action.
PEI report cards describe learning with Beginning, 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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