Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – Types and Suggestions +
Key Category: Primary Sources 101
In this video the Regional Archivist at the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives makes suggestions for using archival material and working with local archivists. Her suggestions include: requesting copies of materials for classroom use (maps, letters, photographs); if available, booking available kits (hands on and digital); planning class visits. Some archives offer individual research project assistance for students.
Guiding Questions
How can a visit to the local archives offer a rich hands-on learning opportunity? What outcomes do you expect from a class visit to the local archives? What curriculum outcomes do you expect to address by using locally available primary source documents (letters, documents, maps, photographs) ?
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – Interactive Map +
Key Category: Primary Sources 101
This video shows how primary source materials from local art galleries, museums and archives support SSHG inquiry learning. See how maps, documents, photographs, and pieces of art can be used to investigate the social studies thinking concepts.
Guiding Questions
What types of primary source materials are available in your community art gallery, museum and archives? Which social studies curriculum learning goals can be addressed through the use of these local resources?
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – Mississauga Tribe Treaty +
Key Category: Student Focus
This video shows how archival materials provide historical information about the purchase of First Nations lands. We look at an original map outlining the amount of Mississauga Anishinaabe First Nations land that was proposed for purchase in 1818 by the British Crown.
Guiding Questions
Where in your community do you have access to original primary documents? How can original documents (treaties, contracts, maps) be used to supplement student inquiry? What types of questions can students generate from this type of historical material? How can primary source materials enhance information students acquire from book and internet resources?
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – Land Use Etobicoke Creek +
Key Category: Student Focus
This video shows how primary sources (Fire Insurance Plans) can be used to inquire about “change over time” as well as interaction with the environment. Students can ask questions about issues that resulted from changes to the environment as towns and cities grew. They can also inquire into how some of those issues were solved and investigate whether or not they still exist today.
Guiding Questions
What types of documents exist at your local museum archives? Are there primary source materials that would provide my students with opportunities to conduct an inquiry into local land use and how the community has changed/stayed the same? Are there historical documents that show the human impact on the local environment over time?
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – Urban Stories+
Key Category: Student Focus
How can museum archives be used to uncover local community stories? An archivist demonstrates how using museum archives offers opportunities for student Inquiry into local community stories – industry, work and day-to-day living.
Guiding Questions
How can you use primary source archival materials to introduce the concepts of disciplinary thinking? How can students use archival materials to investigate local community stories? What local historical stories can your class investigate?
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – Dale Estate +
Key Category: Student Focus
This video demonstrates how archival materials can support student inquiry into land use. As well, the archivist explains how archival materials help to supplement information about museum artefacts and how they can tell a story of a community and how land was used.
Guiding Questions
How can you use primary source archival materials to introduce students to the concepts of disciplinary thinking? What primary source materials support student inquiry projects related to the People and Environments strand (Grades 1 to 6) or Geography (Grades 7 and 8)?
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – County Jail +
Key Category: Student Focus
This video demonstrates how primary source materials from local archives (personal recounts, photos, etc.) can be used to tell stories about local structures (in this case, the local jail).
Guiding Questions
How can students incorporate the use of primary source materials to tell the stories about local buildings? How can you integrate this type of research into social studies and other curriculum areas? How can the use of archival materials related to local structures support and develop an understanding of the concepts of disciplinary thinking?
Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives – Archive Shelves +
Key Category: Student Focus
In this video Diane Allengame, Regional Archivist, gives us a view of the archive shelves at the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives. We get a look at an example of one of their biggest and heaviest books – a “copy” book which is a recording of transfer of land sale/property title in Peel.
Guiding Questions
How can access to local town and city records support our social studies inquiries? What kinds of primary source materials do we need to be looking at/for?