Lesson Concept:
This lesson outlines how our environment effects our culture, customs, food, etc.

Learning Outcome:
It is expected that students will describe how peoples’ basic needs are met in a variety of cultures.

Lesson Plan:
Ask students to research and compare the lifestyles, customs, and food of a west coast of BC aboriginal group, and another from a different region of Canada (plains, east coast). Have them present their findings in a diptych collage – each side with a picture of the region and showing various aspects of the traditional culture and life of the First Nations who live there. If materials for a collage are limited, have the students present their findings in another way.

Discuss the differences discovered by the students and how the peoples’ environments would have been responsible for these differences.