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Essential Insights on Heritage Fairs: Boost Creativity and Learning in Students

Heritage Fairs offer unique benefits for students, including fostering creativity and initiative through hands-on experiential learning. By engaging in cross-curricular projects, students enhance their literacy and build confidence while addressing key curriculum outcomes. These fairs promote critical thinking and encourage connections to community and cultural history. Projects can focus on diverse themes of Canadian history and should be creatively unique without being costly. Guidelines encourage multisensory elements that reflect historical significance.

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Essential Insights on Heritage Fairs: Boost Creativity and Learning in Students

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  1. HERITAGE FAIR IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW

  2. Benefits of Heritage Fairs for Students • Builds student creativity and initiative • Hands-on experiential learning • Cross-curricular learning • Can enhance student literacy • Builds student confidence and self-esteem • Address key curriculum outcomes • Promotes critical thinking • Builds citizenship and connections to community, family or cultural history

  3. Project Guidelines • Be focused on a theme in Canadian history. Local, provincial, regional, national or international history or heritage can be researched • Projects are to be completed individually • NOT be expensive to produce • Creative and unique projects are encouraged. Projects in a wide variety of formats are acceptable • Includes title, credits, written summary and/or research journal and bibliography: Photographs must be properly credited.

  4. Project Guidelines Cont’d • A commercially produced display board is the correct size format • The project board should not exceed 80cm deep, 150cm wide and 100cm high.

  5. Creative Component In addition to the required elements, projects should include at least one additional component that is appropriate to the topic. The best projects will be multisensory. Archival photographs Artistic displays – original visual artwork of the presenter Audio tapes- on standard audiocassette Cartoons- black and white or colour Collections- Historic or modern, with some historical relevance Computer displays- designed and created by students Drama and Skits- live or taped performance, maximum length 15 minutes Maps Models and crafts Monologues and public speaking- maximum length 15 minutes Music and dance- live performance, maximum length 15 minutes Oral histories- interviewing and recording the stories of people connected to your Subject Photographs- original photographic work of the presenter Poetry- original written work of the presenter, minimum 14 lines Short stories and fictional diary entries – 2-11 pages long, typed or handwritten TV or movie scripts – 2-6 pages for grades 4-7 Video tapes- written and directed by students, maximum length 15 minutes

  6. Is The Topic Historically Significant? • Does the topic have consequences for many people in British Columbia? • Is your topic important to people in the past and today? Does the topic have a connection to a larger story in the past? • Is your topic interesting and relevant to you? Will the topic keep you interested for the duration of the project?

  7. Criteria for a “Powerful” Inquiry Question for a Heritage Fair Project: • Are not easy to answer • Are not open ended and require research • Require judgment between one or more possible options. • Are historically significant: they matter to people today, including students, teachers, historians or others interested in history.

  8. Information taken from Heritage Fairs and Project Based Learning Presentation by School District 23, Kelowna Museums and BC Heritage Fairs.

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