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