The three units
- Unit 1 · Shelter and survival on the parkland (Social Studies, Grade 7–8). What a study of seventy-two Alberta dugouts can and cannot tell us about how people lived in them: depth, frame, roof, chimney, and twelve people in twelve square metres. Students work from the measurements; there is no picture to lean on.
- Unit 2 · How do you find out where an object came from? (Canadian History, Grade 10). Nobody has published where the floral scarves worn on the Prairies were made or by what route they arrived. Students get the real open question and the places an answer would come from: museum accession records, general-store daybooks, mail-order catalogues, a textile curator.
- Unit 3 · A two-week ferment, measured (Science, Grade 9–11). The lacto-fermentation of beet kvas as a two-week process students can follow and measure: what changes in the jar day by day, and how the 1913 method describes the same steps. Students keep a log and compare it with the published text.
Every factual claim in these units traces to a source listed on our sources page. No unit teaches ceremony, and none describes Indigenous knowledge that its holders have not published themselves.