Costume

Learning Activities

Discovering Objects

Students learn to interpret objects that belonged to immigrants to Canada, and learn about immigrants who came to Canada between 1800 and 2000, by studying objects from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's database, completing a Discovering Objects Activity Sheet, and making a presentation of artifacts.

Grade: Grade 5-8; Quebec Elementary Cycle 3, Secondary Cycle 1

• Discovering Objects - Lesson Plan (PDF 285k)
• Discovering Objects - Activity Sheet (PDF 125k)

Selected Artifacts Information Packages:

• Chinese vase - (PDF 140k)
• Korean spinning top - (PDF 135k)
• Icelandic wedding costume - (PDF 200k)
• Tibetan costume - (PDF 110k)
• Touareg one string fiddle - (PDF 130k)
• Vietnamese long zither - (PDF 120k)
• Mossi talking drum - (PDF 125k)
• German fish trap - (PDF 130k)