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This article is appropriate to the unit as the students will be debating who gets to keep artifacts and why. This gives the students a different perspective and ties into other units of grade four social, as the First Nations are learned about as well. A different perspective is shown because this article talks about how artefacts were stolen and how this can be dealt with in today’s society. Today this is quite a common issue between the First Nation people and museums. This article demonstrates how the First Nations people are not happy about what the museums are doing; however, the First Nations and the museums have come to a compromise. This relates to the skills and processes of the Program of Studies 4.S.5 where demonstration of the ability to deal constructively with diversity and disagreement are looked at and considering the needs and points of view of others are looked at as well. Not only is this demonstrated in the news article, it is an expectation that students will learn how to do this in their debate.

This article could be used as an extra extension activity for students later in social studies when the First Nations are learned about. Students could research and find items from the First Nations people that have been stolen and placed in museums and give the history behind it.

Fontaine, T. (2014, July 14). Hereditary chief demands Ottawa museum return artifacts or show bill of sale. APTN National News. Retrieved October 25, 2014, from http://aptn.ca/news/2014/07/29/hereditary-chief-demands-ottawa-museum-return-artifacts-show-bill-sale/