Kindergarten to Grade 1
Curricular Competencies
- Make exploratory observations using their senses.
- Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world.
Content
- Adaptations of local plants and animals
- Names of local plants and animals
- Structural features of living things in the local environment
Activity
Guiding Question: What features or traits do local animals have to survive?
Explore the local animals through the artifacts in the animal features kit: Black Bear, Eagle, Moose, Mountain Lion, etc.
They can then explore the natural history section guided by a scavenger hunt or graphic organizer.
Grade 2-3
Curricular competencies
- Sort and classify data and information using drawings, pictographs and provided tables.
- Observe objects and events in familiar contexts.
Content
- Metamorphic and non-metamorphic life cycles of different organisms
- Similarities and differences between offspring and parent
Activity
As a whole group watch Video on a Butterfly Life cycle: https://youtu.be/3kZD6rlSLUw?si=ww1kIZp2MhG_Vetz
Split class into 2 groups for activities 30 minutes each:
Group 1 – Butterfly Life cycle
- Kids will colour their activity sheet and paste the life cycle of a butterfly in the right order from; egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly.
Group 2 – Life cycle scavenger hunt
- Kids will hunt through the natural history section for different life cycle artifacts.
Grade 4
Curricular Competencies
- Construct narratives that capture the attitudes, values, and worldviews commonly held by people at the different times or places.
- Differentiate between intended and unintended consequences of events, decisions, or developments, and speculate about alternative outcomes.
Content
- Early contact, trade, co-operation and conflict between First Peoples and European Peoples
- The fur trade in pre-confederation Canada and British Columbia
Activity
Video to explain fur trade and made beaver system: https://youtu.be/JGoVlgcT6tM?si=cerJTkaKVqyRsiVa
Items to explore: Beaver pelt, beaver hat/clothing, sugar (old packaging), buttons, knives, combs, kettle, beads, archives record of traded items.
Game: Divide the class into 2 groups – those with beaver pelts to trade and those with European trade items (laminated cards of items)
- Students with the beaver pelt cards will be trying to get the most amount of goods for their pelts.
- Students with trade item cards will be trying to give the least amount of goods for the pelts.
Once students have agreed upon a trade agreement, they will record their trade agreement and they can check against the trade record to see if their trade agreement resembles that of the 1800s.
https:/ /www.hbcheritage.ca/history/fur-trade/standard-of-trade
