BC Curriculum

Heritage Fair is made for the new BC Curriculum. Creating a Heritage Fair project personalizes learning and builds core competencies. Heritage Fair projects are also cross-curricular and encompass Social Studies, English Language Arts and Arts Education curricula.
Personalized Learning
Integral to the Heritage Fair program is the idea that students choose and explore a topic of personal interest. Passion about a particular topic, idea or theme is an important motivator for students. 
Core Competencies
Communication
Students develop their ability to impart and exchange stories and ideas about Canada's past, moving towards increasingly sophisticated ways to communicate complex ideas.

Thinking
Students build important critical and creative thinking skills in crafting an inquiry question, finding sources to answer their inquiry question and presenting their research in a creative, 3-D display.

Personal and Social
Students acquire a positive and healthy awareness, understanding and appreciation of the diversity of Canada's pluralistic society while becoming confident in their ideas and what they can accomplish.

Cross-Curricular
English Language Arts - Big Ideas
Grade 4-5: Texts can be understood from different perspectives
Grade 6-7: Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.
Grades 8-9: Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed.

 Social Studies
Students use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to create their Heritage Fair projects: ask questions; gather, interpret and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions.

Heritage Fair Project Topic Lists

 Each list includes:
  • Big Idea from Social Studies curriculum
  • Suggested topics
  • Student-friendly book or website

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