The BC Curriculum is a tool that teachers in British Columbia use to resort to when planning their unit and lesson plans for the year. Depending on what grades teacher candidates teach, there will be different topics and materials to cover. In a world where there is constant change, like the curriculum, they have revamped it and made changes so that students can be more engaged in the materials being taught and find ways to make learning fun. The key features in the redesigned curriculum are the core competencies which include communication, thinking and personal and social competencies, which are essential for all learners. Another topic is essential learning which includes the concepts, skills, and big ideas that foster higher-order thinking. The last key feature is the literacy and numeracy foundations, this contains one’s ability to understand, critically analyze, and create a variety of forms of communication, including oral, written, visual, digital, and multimedia uses. The uses of these key features are all relate back to the diagram shown in this image “Know-Do- Understand,” which is a model that supports the concept-based, competency-driven approach to learning.