In this lesson, students will investigate their own family’s traditions and connections to the outdoors while considering steps they might take to ensure these traditions continue.

Curriculum connections

Social Studies (2023), Grade 2

A1.1 compare ways in which some traditions have been celebrated over multiple generations in their family and identify some of the main reasons for changes in these traditions
A2.1 formulate questions to guide investigations into some of the past and present traditions and celebrations in their own family and the communities to which they belong
A2.6 communicate the results of their inquiries, using appropriate vocabulary (e.g., holiday, tradition, culture, language, celebrations, generations) and formats
B1.3 demonstrate an understanding of the importance of sustainability in people’s interrelationship with their natural environment and of some of the consequences of sustainable and/or non-sustainable actions