The Minister of Culture and Heritage presents the community with the curriculum guide at the ceremony commemorating the Hayes River as a Canadian Heritage River, photo: K. Schykulski
Hayes River: Highway to the Interior Curriculum Guide was researched and written by historian Ruth Swan. Manitoba Conservation brought S. Dangerfield Interpretive Planning into the project to prepare the guide for distribution to teachers.
The guide targets Grade 5 Social Studies, focusing on the Fur Trade Curriculum Unit. It tells the story of the fur trade along the historic Hayes River, a Canadian Heritage River.
Our role in production of the guide was to write an introduction for teachers, provide additional activities for the students, and develop a teacher resource chapter. In the editing stage we worked with graphic designers to provide illustrations, charts, maps, activity pages and a number of other resources for the guide.
Once the curriculum guide was completed we worked with Manitoba Conservation to produce an Edu-kit for the guide. The Edu-kit included many supplemental materials such as classroom maps, resource books, video/DVD on the Hayes River and more, all bundled up in an old-fashioned packing crate.
