Museum Exhibit
Collective Rights in Canada
Your Role:
You are hired!! The CanadianMuseum of Civilization has hired you to plan an exhibit on collective rights in Canada. The exhibit will be called “Collective Rights: Past and Present”.
It will be your job to illustrate the impact of collective rights on citizenship and identity in Canada today.
Your role is to create an interactive display that answers the essential question: "How have collective-rights legislation over time shaped who we are as Canadians?"
Understand the Issue:
Time to do some research on your assigned topic! See the chart in the lesson to determine if you are exploring First Nations peoples, Official Language groups or the Metis. Become an expert in your area!
Your Display:
Your display should reflect:
- an understanding of the historical context surrounding legislation that affirms collective rights in Canada.
- An analysis of how collective rights have, over time, shaped Canadians unique sense of identity.
You Decide:
Using the information in your text and internet research, decide what you want to put in your display. Take a look at some of the online museum displays to see what they look like. Displays often have charts, written text, pictures, timelines, sound recordings, or multimedia presentations that illustrate the important information. Think about the program you want to use (Power Point, Word, Publisher, others??) and decide how you are going to illustrate your ideas about collective rights in Canada.
Essential Questions:
Use the following questions to help guide your research and what you will need to include in your display:
- What are collective rights?
- What legislation establishes the collective rights for your group in Canada?
- Why do some groups have collective rights and not others?
- Why are collective rights important to all Canadians?
- How do collective rights, in the past and today, define who we are as Canadians?
Report:
Once your display has been created, it is time to summarize your ideas in written form!! In a one page (5 paragraph) report, outline "How has collective-rights legislation over time shaped who we are as Canadians?" Make sure your thoughts are organized and persuasive!
Sharing:
Post your museum exhibit AND your report in the Discussions area and the dropbox!! Once you post your information in the Forum area, look at what your classmates have posted there and learn about the other two groups that you did NOT research. Explore how the other two groups have come to contribute to who we are as Canadians.