The Echo Project

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General Steps :

“Echo” refers to both a demographic cohort (the students I teach) and the act of calling across an expanse expecting a reply. I designed this project in order for students see what they could learn about Canadian Identity by reaching back at least two generations for interview subjects and primary sources. In addition to developing thinking and research skills, the aim is to help students understand the personal challenges and significances for Canadians of events before during, and after WWII.

Suggested Resources: Students are referred to a Heritage Inquiry website and also the Echo Project website in order to orient their research and identify resources and primary sources.

I’ve posted additional thoughts about this project via this link. 

Take some time to read through the student guide to the Echo Project.

Heritage Inquiry website

Echo Project website

The project is very open-ended in terms of sources and inquiry frameworks. Whole sections of our school’s library can be put into service for this project, as can a gamut of websites. I do not compile specific lists of books or websites to use in advance, although once students have committed to a topic I work with them to identify particularly important references and primary sources. Do due the nature of the project (emphasis on interviews and making personal connections), the students supply many of the needed resources themselves.

LESSON RESOURCES:

Student handout
Teacher notes
Student examples
Rubric