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Activity: What Can a Basket Tell Us
Explore different features of Indigenous baskets to understand the lives of people from different times, places, and cultures.
Activity: Mi'kmaq Teenagers Today and Cultural Identity
Make a connection to contemporary Mi'kmaq culture through music and poetry.
Overview: Out of Many, One?
Americans have long created an identity based on distinct principles and values that define the country. This unit explores the tensions between being an individual and being part of a group or nation and provides insight into what it means to be an individual in America, today and centuries ago.
Overview: Prosperity for All?
America was founded on the principles of equality, freedom, liberty, and respect for individual rights. But these ideals have not always applied to everyone, and many Americans have fought since the founding of this country to broaden those values so that they apply to all Americans.
Everybody Collects
The kinds of objects, artifacts, and artworks that people collect communicate different ideas. They can be a record of events that happened in society.
Activity: Think like a Collector
Examine a museum collection for themes and commonalities and consider what the collection represents about a community.
Activity: Perspective Taking with Places and People in History
Use this activity to explore different points of view and perspectives depicted in historic artworks like The Burning of the Old South Church.