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"Hands-on Heritage"

By doing pioneer work
themselves,
students could understand
the heritage
that they read about before.

A set of stories

The choice list is
at the end

You have found 5
So, who's steering this canoe?
One of the stories below will tell you.

Some excellent photos will still be added.
Hands-on Heritage
at Mattawa McElligott District School

Students, teachers and a great group of community volunteers
held a heritage celebration day at Samuel de Champlain
Provincial Park. It was a "kick off" for the activities that followed at
the school in preparation for the Canadian Heritage Interactive Team's
visit. We only wish Darren, Owen, Donna and Will, the four
cyclists of Team 1, had been able to join us in

MAKING BANNOCK

Bannock is the ideal camping bread, always fresh,
simple to make, cooked over a campfire, and delicious,
especially when breakfast wasn't enough.

One cup of flour, a full teaspoon of
baking powder and quarter teaspoon
salt just need a half cup of water
added to make basic bannock.

For variety, sugar, cinnamon, raisins,
blueberries or apple may be added
to the plastic bag. Here students mix
bannock ingredients carefully.

Students receive instructions on how
to put bannock on a stick for roasting.

With sticks ready, it is time to go to
the safe firepit on the beach.

Waiting for the fire to take hold,
students have their sticks ready to go.

It looks like a weenie roast but really,
students are roasting their bannock.

This is one of five heritage activities that teams of students
rotated through during the day. Primary students did different things.

HERITAGE ACTIVITIES

Bigger kids Grades 4 to 8
The little ones (K to 3)

VOYAGEUR BRIGADE
How to paddle a large canoe PIONEER STRUCTURES
How to use hand tools with wood

CLAY in the PINES
Making pinch pots THE ROCKS WE PAINTED
Petroglyph Stories

ARCHAEOLOGY
How to do a Dig for artifacts SENIOR KINDERGARTEN
What We Did on Heritage Day

The FUR TRADE
The Ontario Fur Harvesters'
Presentation
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START

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One cup of flour, a full teaspoon of baking powder and quarter teaspoon salt just need a half cup of water added to make basic bannock.	For variety, sugar, cinnamon, raisins, blueberries or apple may be added to the plastic bag. Here students mix bannock ingredients carefully.
Students receive instructions on how to put bannock on a stick for roasting.	With sticks ready, it is time to go to the safe firepit on the beach.

Waiting for the fire to take hold, students have their sticks ready to go.	It looks like a weenie roast but really, students are roasting their bannock.

	Bigger kids Grades 4 to 8		The little ones (K to 3)
	VOYAGEUR BRIGADE How to paddle a large canoe		PIONEER STRUCTURES How to use hand tools with wood
	CLAY in the PINES Making pinch pots		THE ROCKS WE PAINTED Petroglyph Stories
	ARCHAEOLOGY How to do a Dig for artifacts		SENIOR KINDERGARTEN What We Did on Heritage Day
	The FUR TRADE The Ontario Fur Harvesters' Presentation		Back to the START