Great Canadian Culture Museum: big understandings

Remember: You are a curator of Canadian culture! More specifically, you are responsible for representing a particular aspect of Canadian culture. You need to convince the world that this exhibit is important to Canada. This project enables you to:

understand and appreciate the unique nature of Canada, its land, history, complexities, and current issues understand and honour the traditions, concepts, and symbols that are the expression of Canadian identities thrive in their evolving cultural and Canadian identities with a legitimate sense of belonging to their communities, Canada, and the world appreciate and respect diverse Canadian cultural perspectives, including Aboriginal and Francophone, and understand how these perspectives have shaped Canada's political and cultural realities conduct research ethically using diverse methods and sources, and organize, interpret, and present their findings, and defend their opinions use and manage information and communication technologies develop effective communication skills

Some big understandings that you need to take away from your exhibit include: What impact do natural environments have on your exhibit? Consider art, communications, invention, sounds, and everything else to help you draw conclusions about this question. Examine the social and cultural diversity that exists within your exhibit. Who has contributed, is contributing, and will contribute to your culture? What are these contributions? Why is this important? What makes your exhibit so important to Canadian society? How do the people and ideas influence Canada and beyond? Whose stories need to be told? What do these stories tell us about your exhibit? What important events do we need to know about? How have these events helped to form your culture into what it is now? Where do you think it will be in the future? A great way to learn about a culture, movement, or people is through arts and literature. In what ways do arts and literature help us to understand your exhibit?

Create!