BC Orca Exhibit Museum Field Trip
Grade: 3
Content Focus: Relationships between a community and its environment
Competency: Recognize the causes and consequences of events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequences)
Learning Objective: To learn about the Salish Sea and our relationship to it. Before Museum Visit: Lecture from the GSA (Georgia Straight Alliance) to scaffold understanding about the Salish Sea.
At the Museum: Look at exhibit and note at least 3 provocations. Which populations are thriving? Which are at risk? How are orcas and humans inextricably connected?
After the Museum: Students create awareness posters about something that resonated with them in their learning.
I chose to include the Museum Field Trip activity to represent the learning objective: evaluate how participatory citizenship leads to deeper engagement with social justice issues. I think museum’s can be powerful agents of change especially when the content is being interacted with. I know for me, museums and art gallery’s have always felt like magical places of knowledge and inspired many questions and wonderings. I had a lot of fun planning this field trip! For a previous course I also examined the Orca exhibit and had students create a children’s book about orca awareness.
Photo Credit:
Photo by Chris Nguyen on Unsplash
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