How can where we live in Canada affect the way we live?
Introduction:
The Royal Alberta Museum has decided to celebrate Canada's history with a very special exhibit called, "Surviving the Wilderness: Canada's Aboriginal Cultures and Heritage." The museum curator has decided to hire you, an experienced historian, and your research team to create a display for this exhibit.
Task:
In order to complete this task to the curator's satisfaction, you and your team will need to focus on the main idea for this exhibit: How were Canada's First Nations cultures able to survive in their unique region? The curator is expecting this to be a very large and spectacular exhibit, so he has requested that you and your team create a display for ONE region of Canada, and the First Nations people
who live there -- he is hiring other teams to cover the remaining regions and Aboriginal cultures required to complete the exhibit.
Great Plains (Blackfoot, Cree)
Arctic (Inuit)
Northwest Coast (Haida, Nootka)
Eastern woodlands Eastern Hunters (Algonquin, Ojibwa) Eastern Farmers ( Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk)
Resources:
Great PlainsNative People Plains
Cree Our Land Our Peoplel
/ Arctic
Native People: Arctic
/ Northwest Coast
Native People: Northwest Coast
/ Eastern Woodland
Native People: Eastern Woodland Aboriginal Culture
Arctic
Native People: Arctic Aboriginal Culture
Native People: Arctic
Autochtones - arctique - (Encyclopédie canadienne) / Subarctic
Native People: Subarctic Aboriginal Culture
Native People: Subarctic
Autochtones - (Encyclopédie canadienne) / Northeastern Woodlands
Native People: Plateau Aboriginal Culture
Native People Northeastern Woodlands Autochtones - (Encyclopédie canadienne) / Plateau
Coastal Aboriginal Groups
Native People: Plateau Autochtones (Encyclopédie canadienne ) / Northwest Coast
Coastal Aboriginal Groups
Native People: Northwest Coast Autochtones (Encyclopédie canadienne )
What region are you doing?
Where is your region?
What First Nation tribes are in your region?
Sample Student Questions:
A) Food
What did they eat?
What did they use to eat with?
How much did they eat?
How did they get their food?
Did they hunt or gather food?
How did they make their meals?
Did they eat fruits and vegetables?
Was it hard to get food?
How did they prepare their food?
Who prepared the food?
Who got the food?
Who hunted and gathered the food?
When did they eat the food?
Did they have special ceremonies or feasts?
B) SHELTER
What does their shelter look like?
When is it used?
What did they make it out of?
Why did they build that type of shelter?
How did they build it?
What characteristics does it have?
(movable, size, shape, strength)
What is their shelter called?
Who lives in the shelter?
How is their shelter decorated?
How long does it take to make their shelter?
How does it protect them from the environment?
C) CLOTHING
What type of clothing do they wear?
What are their clothes made out?
Where do they get the materials to make their clothes from?
Are they insulated?
How do they protect them from the environment?
Are they decorated?
Do they have any special clothes?
Where and when do they wear them?
How do they make the clothing?
Who makes the clothing?
What is the clothing like? Light, heavy,
insulated, waterproof?
What do they look like?
D) TRANSPORTATION
How do they get around?
Are they nomadic or settled?
What do they use to travel?
How is it made?
What is it made of?
Is it fast?
Does it work good?
Can you transport a lot of people or goods?
Why do they use that form of transportation?
Describe their transportation
E) CULTURE
What do they believe in? Religion
What are their traditions?
What kind of ceremonies do they have? Why?
Do they dance?
Do they sing?
Do they celebrate anything and when?
How many people are in a tribe?
Is there a leader?
What is their tribe name?
What do they use in their traditions?
Do they play any musical instruments?
Do people have jobs?
Do people have specific roles in the tribe? Warriors, cooks, gatherers, hunters…