Indigenous Peoples Activity | Orange Shirt Day Art Project
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Description
This Truth and Reconciliation activity (about the residential schools and Canada's First Nations) parallels perfectly with Orange Shirt Day. Teach students about the Witness Blanket through texts, comprehension and cloze activities. Actual photos of the Witness Blanket are included. You might opt to display them digitally or use as 8 x 11 posters. Learning about residential schools is a sensitive topic. Therefore, I have included Mindful Minute activities (most with music as an option) for each nonfiction text with a photo. The experience culminates with creating a bulletin board about the Witness Blanket (a collaborative art activity) that results in a thought-provoking display.
Your students will enjoy creating this poster as the collaborative effort unfolds.
Creating the art piece is very easy to do. Each student is given one page/piece of a large mosaic collaboration poster to colour. Once all sheets are coloured and cut out, they are then assembled to reveal a large multi-coloured mosaic/poster/mural that says, "The Witness Blanket". I've even included a blank Witness Blanket template so students could create their own artwork!
What's Included:
- Notes and Helpful Tips for Teachers
ACTIVITIES
- What Is Empathy?
- Showing Empathy
- The Story of The Witness Blanket Text (cloze and comprehension activity)
- Creating The Witness Blanket (cloze and comprehension activity)
- Bearing Witness (cloze and comprehension activity)
- Answer Keys
- 15 photos of items in The Witness Blanket with information on each one
- Mindful Minute for each photo with information (10 with mindful music)
- Resources for Teachers (videos, websites, books)
- Collaborative Puzzle (2 options: with and without images)
- Labels to display around the artwork to inspire student engagement
Poster Details
• 25 pages
• 5 x 5 grid
• Final poster: Approximately 110 cm x 82.5 cm (or 43 in. x 32.5 in.) - depending on your printer settings.
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