This project is intended as a culminating task for Grade 7 History - Canada, 1800 - 1850: Conflict and Challenges.
 
In this task, students will become historical curators working for a museum that is preparing an exhibition on Canada's history between 1800 and 1850. Their task is to create an engaging and informative exhibition that analyzes various aspects of the lives of different groups and communities during this time, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, and to investigate their perspectives on significant events.
 
For research, students can use notes that they took during the unit, their history textbook, other non-fiction texts, or online sources.
 
This resource includes:
4-page Lesson Plan (With expectations, learning goal/success criteria, possible accommodations, and assessment strategies
Assignment Overview
Research Notes Graphic Organizer (3 pages)
Reflection
Peer Review for Exhibition
Rubric
 
Ontario Curriculum: Overall Expectations
Canada, 1800 - 1850: Conflict and Challenges
B1. analyse aspects of the lives of various groups and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, in Canada between 1800 and 1850, and compare them to the lives of people in Canada in 1713–1800
B2. use the historical inquiry process to investigate perspectives of different groups and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and/or Inuit communities, on some significant events, developments, and/or issues that affected Canada and/or people in Canada between 1800 and 1850
B3. describe various significant people, events, and developments, including treaties between Indigenous nations and imperial powers, in Canada between 1800 and 1850, and explain their impact

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