Innovations from the Land
Students get an introduction to innovations and consider how they can help people, care for the land or make something safer/easier.
- Grades 1-3
- 3 activities
- 2 hours
Big idea
Learning from the land helps people design innovations that care for people and places.
Learning objectives
- Learning What Makes Innovations Helpful :
- Learning Ideas from the Land:
- Designing Innovations from the Land:
Activities
Learning What Makes Innovations Helpful
Exploring how everyday ideas and tools help people and the land.
BC curriculum fit
Learning What Makes Innovations Helpful
- Science 1-3
- Social Studies 1-3
Learning Ideas from the Land
- Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 1-3
- Science 1-3
Designing Innovations from the Land
- Science 1-3
- Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 1-3
- Social Studies 1-3
Assessments
Each activity includes suggestions on what to assess throughout the activities.
Background info
The three activities emphasize learning through careful observation of the land, highlighting Indigenous perspectives that view the land as a living teacher and stress respectful relationships among people, plants, animals, water, and place. Across the activities, learners are encouraged to notice how features of the land help living things stay safe, strong, cool, warm, or organized, and to connect these observations to the design of helpful innovations. The teacher notes consistently support student voice by valuing multiple forms of expression—such as drawing, speaking, gestures, and pointing—and by emphasizing that there can be many reasonable ideas rather than single “right” answers. Together, the activities guide learners from noticing and describing relationships in the land to using evidence-based thinking to design, reflect on, and revise simple innovations that care for people, community, and the land.
Adaptions/modifications
Each activity offers potential modifications and extensions suggestions.
