Miss M's Learning Space

We were asked in class to create a lesson plan exploring the cross-curricular opportunities in social studies. So, my group decided to create a lesson about residential schools taught through drama and role playing . The general concept of this lesson is to take on a role and then reenact in accordance with your role in response to a certain situation. In each group of four students there are two Martians and two Earthlings. The Martians are representative of euro-Canadians and the Earthlings represent FNMI people (the profiles and situations are at the end of the lesson plan document).

As a class, we were asked to find a truly innovative lesson plan to critique. While we all found wonderful lesson plans, they weren't necessarily that innovative. Innovation describes something that hasn't been done before. The lesson plan I found was about exploring what it means to be Canadian through metaphor was interesting, but not necessarily innovative. The idea is from Inquiry PACs and uses the following poem as a launch point. Does anyone know any really innovative lessons they can share?