Students will explore early Canadian life through print, film, pictures, stories and crafts over the course of four weeks. Students will explore implements and objects found around an early Canadian home through pictures, old catalogues, and films. Discuss observations Learning about the technique Effective questions to ask and write about little known items. As a class, write up a pie chart with questions about an artefact presented and have the students make observations, and a class conclusion based on observations. The students study several artefacts at stations, using questions generated previously, and make observations and conclusions on pie charts.
Students share their conclusions and the reasons for their conclusions.
Invite students to change their conclusions based on insights and strong evidence from classmates. Ask students to give reasons for their conclusions- are they based on the observations or is their a clear explanation. Have students research the modern equivalent of the artefacts that were studied. Ask them to draw both the new and the old articles and to write about what they were used for.