Primary school program

Undergraduate activities - 1st and 2nd year

The goal of the first cycle activities is to help students discover certain elements of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh culture, as well as the content of the exhibitions, among other things, through the use of the senses.

The Legend of the Summer Birds: Students will be able to discover the permanent exhibition through a legend and an adventure by moving through the territory and the seasons.

The importance of the senses in the territory: Students will be able to become aware of the multiple and subtle ways in which we use our senses when we are in the territory and even in Mashteuiatsh.

Drawing the Seasons (workshop): To encourage a re-appropriation of elements of the permanent exhibition, materials will be provided for students to create a scene appropriate to a selected season.

Introduction to archaeology workshop: This workshop offers an opportunity to learn about the basics of archaeology through a fun and hands-on experience of archaeological digs in a square set up specifically for the purposes of the workshop and the groups.

Second cycle activities - Grades 3 and 4

The activities developed for the second cycle of primary school are intended to make young people reflect on the particularities of the traditional way of life and the way they perceive their environment.

Making the order in the territory: Young people will learn to identify animal and plant resources, as well as the tools used to capture, gather or transform them, in order to discover the different ways of feeding themselves.

It’s different in the territory: As an objective, the young people will have to become aware of the differences that exist between the use of time in the territory and the forms that the basic daily activities take. To do this, they will have to take into account the impact of the seasons and the differences between the activities of boys and girls.

On the trails of Nitassinan (workshop): This workshop will allow participants to become aware of the importance of their senses in understanding their environment when they are in the middle of nature. By identifying visual, sound, tactile, gustatory and olfactory cues, young people will be able to tame the environment.

Introduction to archaeology workshop: This workshop offers the opportunity to increase one’s knowledge of archaeology in the field by using different tools and learning different working methods, such as gathering information and creating reference documents, as well as identification issues.

Making handcrafted souvenirs (workshop): This workshop will allow you to use your dexterity and to make a concrete manual experience of material transformation, while creating a souvenir of your visit to the Amerindian Museum of Mashteuiatsh.

Third Cycle Activities - Grades 5 and 6

The activities for the third cycle groups aim to make them aware of different concepts such as transmission, artistic sense or the relationship they have with their environment and the living beings that inhabit it.

The Ilnu Aitun curriculum: To highlight the particular educational context of the young Ilnuatsh who follow both the Quebec school program in the Mashteuiatsh schools and a traditional training to prepare for life in the territory, i.e. the learning of Ilnu Aitun.

The artistic sense of the Ilnuatsh: Beyond the skills intrinsic to the making of objects or artistic works, this workshop will make young people aware of the artistic sense of the Ilnuatsh and of the values communicated by the creation of crafts and works of art.

The recipes of our kukum (workshop): The objective of this workshop is to introduce the native gastronomy of the Ilnuatsh through the presentation of recipes and the highlighting of the ingredients required to make them. The workshop seeks to offer a concrete opportunity to “put your hand to the dough”; bannock dough of course.

Introduction to archaeology workshop: This workshop offers the opportunity to increase one’s knowledge of archaeology in the field by using different tools and learning different working methods, such as gathering information and creating reference documents, as well as identification issues.

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