BC Sikhs

This lesson encourages students to research prominent Sikhs from BC’s past and present.

 

BC Sikhs

This lesson encourages students to research prominent Sikhs from BC’s past and present.

By researching prominent Sikhs, students evaluate credibility of sources, practice note taking, assess significance, and explore cause and consequence relations. Then teachers have the option of using the final products to create a Sikh Heritage Month display or bulleting board in their school.

Focus Question.

  • Who are important Sikh figures in BC? What is their contribution to BC?

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BC Sikhs
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Social Studies

  • Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions

  • Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments at particular times and places (significance)

  • Assess the credibility of multiple sources and the adequacy of evidence used to justify conclusions

  • Assess how underlying conditions and the actions of individuals or groups influence events, decisions, or developments, and analyze multiple consequences (cause and consequence)

First People’s Principles of Learning

  • Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story

  • Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits and the ancestors

 

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