Delta Then and Now Education Kit

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Last updated on

Friday, September 19th, 2025

Experience type:

In-Person

Program Description

Using archival evidence, students will explore how Delta has changed over time to meet the needs and wants of the community. This interdisciplinary kit incorporates math and literacy skills into an exploration of life now and in the past and the changes that have shaped our community and environment.

Education Kits provide your students the opportunity to explore primary source materials in the classroom. Our kits include a teacher’s manual, lesson plans, student activity sheets, archival documents and artifacts, and program materials.

Big Ideas

Addition and subtraction with numbers to 10 can be modelled concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to develop computational fluency.

Numbers to 20 represent quantities that can be decomposed into 10s and 1s.

Repeating elements in patterns can be identified.

Development of computational fluency in addition and subtraction with numbers to 100 requires an understanding of place value.

Numbers to 100 represent quantities that can be decomposed into 10s and 1s.

The regular change in increasing patterns can be identified and used to make generalizations.

Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words.

Stories and other texts help us learn about ourselves and our families.

Stories and other texts connect us to ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Our rights, roles, and responsibilities are important for building strong communities.

We shape the local environment, and the local environment shapes who we are and how we live.