Hair Connections

This lesson explores the importance of hair and relationship with identity within the Sikh, Black and Indigenous Communities.

 

BC Sikhs

This lesson explores the importance of hair and relationship with identity within the Sikh, Black and Indigenous Communities.

This lesson uses three mentor texts, Hair Twins, Hair Love and Siha Tooskin Knows the Strength of His Hair to explore ways in which hair and identity are related. Further, it examines the role traditions play in our lives.

Focus Question.

  • How does hair connect various communities and build connections and inclusivity?

  • How do traditions connect families and friends?

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BC Sikhs
(Lesson Plan)

Courses + Big Ideas

Grade 3 & up

Social Studies

  • aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and cultures

English Language Arts

  • Make connections between ideas from a variety of sources and prior knowledge to build understanding

  • Show awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to family and community

First People’s Principles of Learning

  • Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story

  • Learning requires exploration of one’s identity

 

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