Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley: Aboriginal Peoples Unit

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Aboriginal Peoples Unit - Tipi Diorama

After studying the tipi in Rouge Park, my Grade 5 students were inspired to build their own in the form of dioramas. The tipis looked amazing in the end but were actually quite challenging to build. The bamboo skewers that the students used for poles kept shifting. Eventually we had to tape them down onto the foam board.

What are we doing?

Each week students walk through their local community to a meadow on the edge of the Rouge River Valley. These “place based” environment activities are integrated with curriculum areas and meet the Ministry’s environmental policy found in Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow.

Our philosophy is to engage students through experiential learning and to cover as wide a range of curriculum as possible. Using Walking Wednesdays as a jumping off point, we have covered Ministry curriculum expectations in Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language and the Arts.