Kid's Educational Theatre Workshops

Aboriginals - Let's Listen^TM

Grade 1 & 2 class counting rings to determine age of tree

Grades 1 & 2 Social Studies - Canadian History and Citizenship

"Describe what the North American colonists learned from the aboriginal people and how they helped them adapt to their new environment (e.g. food, transportation, medicines, etc"

Workshop description

Using theatre techniques and exercises, the kids will have a chance to learn and experience through movement and role playing what the new colonists learned from the First Nations Peoples, the Aboriginals, and how they helped them adapt and survive in the new world.

Working in groups, by the end of the workshop the kids will have created a theatre tableau depicting one story which teaches a lesson (e.g. how to hunt in a group, how to make food grow faster, etc..) and they will have made a take away book of their learnings.

Some curricular links may include:

- Where (countries) did the colonists come from?

- Why did they leave?

- A review of some of the east coast and eastern tribes

- Aboriginal teachings: generosity, confidence, housing, food, communication

- Aboriginal methods of learning: oral traditional (story telling), circular, learning of life lessons vs. dates and events, from nature and animals, roles in tribe (leaders, elders, medicine men/women)

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