Students will be given time in the groups to discuss about their findings about artifacts.
Day 2
Reflect
Students will be asked to compare the People of Canada of the Past to People of Canada Today in the same groups. They will be asked to develop one chart depicting the differences and to display their work on the Social Study wall in the classroom.
Performance Evaluation
Every group will present their findings on the artifact answering all the questions asked in the activity sheet provided to them.
During presentations, teacher will observe work of each group and will sum up each presentation by sharing additional information on each artifact. While observing focus will be on their findings, presentation and additional interesting facts about the artifact.
Name at least two artifacts related to the cloths, eating habits, hunting etc.
What extra information you collected about the artifacts made by aboriginals?
What resources you explored for your research?
Day 1
Follow these guidelines and you will have a success in keeping your resolution!
Cooperative Interaction
At this stage teacher will provide the artifact information package to each student and will explain about the information given in the package related to artifacts. Every group will be asked to select two artifacts for the further research and teacher will keep the record of each group’s research object and will make sure that all 18 artifacts gets chosen by the groups.
Students will be asked to research for the answers to the questions mentioned on activity sheet (Discovering Object activity sheet) provided by teacher.
Students will be given time in groups to discuss about the responsibility of the task they are sharing for research work.
Resources will be provided for the research about artifacts.
www.metismuseum.ca/browse/index.php/13154
Student engagement
Then teacher will show the video on aboriginal artifacts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-9ngOmJQfw) without giving them the clue about the content.
After the completion of the video, sticky notes will be distributed in the class by splitting them in group in pair. Then teacher will ask them to make a list of the items which they observed in the video and they will be asked to exemplify the use of these objects in their daily lives of people in early Canada.
Essential quetions
Less is more! Do not follow the crowd, think about what you really want to achieve next year. Set your resolutions!
about Museum
How many of you visited Royal Ontario Museum or heritage fair?
How many of you know about Museum in Tororonto?
Set your goals while having your resolution in mind. You should set short-term and all-year long-term goals so you can start seeing results right away.
Examples:
- go to the gym 2 times a week in the first 3 months, go 5 times a week by the end of year
- pay 1/4 of debts by may and pay all of it by the end of the year
Purpose of Museums
What are the possible objects, we can see in our museum related to Canadian history?
What is the purpose of organising heritage fairs or developing museum?
about aboriginal people of Canada?
Type in your resolution.
What do you know about the living conditions of aboriginal people of Canada?
Teacher will start writing the key words used by the students on the board while answering the questions. Students may use words like Aboriginal, Heritage etc. in their answer. Then teacher will underline the key words from the vocabulary list and will explain about them in context with Canadian civilisation.
IBL- Discovering Objects
