Indigenous Cultures Education Kit: the Drum

Open the doors of your classroom to Indigenous voices with the Objects tell their stories digital education kit. The learning resource relies on an interactive and participative approach to support students as they explore different aspects of Indigenous societies and hear how community members view their thriving traditions, values and cultures!

The Museum is now offering the educational kit facilitated by the Museum’s mediators in your classrooms!

Through action research focused on an object from the McCord Stewart Museum’s collection, students are encouraged to embrace Indigenous voices. Each testimonial sheds new light on the past, present and future of Indigenous nations from across Québec.

By taking part in this integrated project, cycles two and three elementary students, as well as first cycle secondary students will develop cross-curricular competencies in social sciences, science and technology and French.

To access the Education Kit of your choosing, please click below and complete the form.

Teaching Scenario

Time: 2 times 60-minute periods per object
Materials available for each object:

• 3 video testimonials
• Documentary directed by an Indigenous person for a Wapikoni Mobile workshop
• Student kit
• Community sheet and map of the nation
• Photo of the object in the McCord collection
• Record of the object in the McCord collection

Teacher’s guide
Teacher’s guide annexes
Student kit
Community sheet and map of the nation
The drum: Photo of the object
The drum: Record of the object

Using the Kit

With the Indigenous Cultures Education kit, teachers can broaden their social sciences, science and technology and French curriculums by using the content to spark reflection and consolidate learnings.

For each object from the McCord Stewart Museum, two types of video resources explore different points of view: three firsthand testimonials and a video by a young Indigenous woman or man created as part of the Wapikoni Mobile workshops. The videos each reveal facets of historical objects from the McCord collection in the current context.

The series includes an information sheet on the community to which the object belongs, an object record and an image of the object.