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Design a Display

Students learn to interpret objects that were collected by folk curators, and learn about the history and cultures of aboriginal peoples and French Canadians, by selecting images of objects from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's database, by creating a display of related objects, and by making a presentation in a format of their choice.

Grade: Grade 5-8; Quebec Elementary Cycle 3, Secondary Cycle 1

• Design a Display - Lesson Plan (PDF 385k)

Artifact Collections - Information Packages:

• 1: Ceremonial clothing - (PDF 275k)
  • Wedding dress
  • Wedding gown
  • Baptismal gown
• 2: Baskets - (PDF 265k)
  • Elm-bark basket
  • Buckskin basket
  • Birch bark basket
• 3: Toys - (PDF 265k)
  • Horse
  • Cow sculpture
  • Tip-cart
• 4: Rugs - (PDF 285k)
  • Hooked rug
  • Hooked rug
  • Rag rug
• 5: Dolls - (PDF 245k)
  • Cornhusk doll
  • Crocheted doll
  • Limberjack