Teaching
& Learning
Strategies
• Activating Prior Knowledge: Guess Who?
• Modelled Reading and Documentation of Thinking: Mind Map
• Consolidating Thinking to Build New Knowledge: Journal Entry
• Consolidating the Learning Experience: Round-Robin Sharing
Background
Information
for Teachers
Before Lesson
• Post Learning Goals and Success Criteria for this lesson.
• Have a large space available for students to easily move around for the
Guess Who activity.
• Have photocopies of pictures of various contributors to Canadian society
ready to be taped on students’ backs.
• View lesson ideas for the book Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged in the
teacher resource Social Justice Begins with Me.
• Have the Mind Map (see BLM #4) enlarged on chart paper.
• Have the Anecdotal Observation Template (BLM #2) ready on a clipboard
to use while students are working collaboratively.
Step A:
Assessment
as Learning
Lesson Note: This lesson starts with a review of Lesson 2, What Are the
Qualities of a Contributor to Society? Please review that lesson to get some
background on and insights into the learning experiences that this lesson
will build upon.
ACTIVATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Guess Who: Attach a picture of a prominent Canadian contributor to society
to the back of each student. Have them mill around an open area. While
milling, they ask questions to try and identify the photo of the person on their
back. They cannot ask directly who the person is but rather critical thinking
questions to identify who they are and what their contribution to society has
been. Once they have guessed their photo, they move it from their back to
their front and continue to help others to identify their photo.
Facilitation Note: If students are having difficulty giving clues or knowing
who their person is, feel free to give clues to move the activity along and
allow students to feel successful. Stop the activity when most have their
photo on the front of them or when there is a lag in activity.
Teacher Talk: With an elbow partner, talk about what is common among all
the people that are in the photos.
Black Canadian Curriculum – Junior – ETFO – 2014