Using Primary Source Materials – Heritage Fair +
Key Category: Student Focus
See how students can use Primary Source Materials as integral components of their inquiries for Heritage Fair projects. These materials can be found in your own communities (historical artifiacts, buildings, people).
Guiding Questions
What primary source materials in your community can you investigate? What are the issues, stories and events in your community?
Heritage Fair Chinese Immigration +
Key Category: Student Focus
In this Heritage Fair clip primary resources are analysed and evaluated looking for bias and perspectives of the time period (historical thinking). Inquiries like this based on primary source materials can lead to a deeper understanding of people, places and events and issues (immigration) in Canada.
Guiding Questions
What are the issues, stories and events related to the time period? How is bias reflected in primary source materials? What perspectives do primary sources portray? What voices are missing?
Heritage Fair Artifacts focusing on Immigration in Canada +
Key Category: Student Focus
Primary source materials can help us tell the story of people, places and events. This presenter explains the historical significance of each source in this engaging Heritage Fair project.