3D Diorama of a First Nation Village!

Today we began an exciting new project in social studies! Students are working in groups to research about what life was like for a particular First Nation group living in Upper Canada during the 1700's. Each student has a special responsibility in their group. Some students are readers, some students are writers, and some students are sketchers. I was impressed with how well each group worked to gather information today. Tomorrow we will continue to research and our next step will be to begin creating these villages in pizza boxes.

The First Nations groups that we are focusing on are:

Inuit
Huron
Ojibwa
Metis
Anishinaabe

Students are becoming "experts" about their particular group by learning about what every day like was like, transportation, food, clothing, location, and other facts.

After the research time today as a class we met on the carpet and discussed where we could get materials to create the dioramas. I am hoping that students can bring some items from home ( not bought from the store).

Some really useful items for our dioramas are:

-toothpicks
-Popsicle sticks
-recycled materials (cleaned out)
-paper items
-cloth

Thank you so much for your support!