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Find information for creating your Fair project, from rules and criteria to resources.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Project Guidelines: Rules and Criteria
The administration of the Fairs Program is decentralized. While each Fair site is required to follow certain national guidelines, the flexibility of the Fairs model allows each volunteer committee to design its Fair to meet the particular needs of the school, community, region, province or territory.
The following guidelines apply
- The Fairs Program emphasizes the importance of the learning process, the exchange of stories, and the value of multiple perspectives.
- Projects can interpret aspects of Yukon heritage or on a Canada-wide topic.
- All presentations must avoid profanity, racial or sexist remarks, innuendo, negative stereotypes, or any other potentially offensive matter.
- Although it is recognized that teachers or other adult supervisors need to provide assistance and guidance, the project is to created and presented by the students.
- Any person or organization clearly identifiable in a presentation must have given permission to the presenter.
- As much as possible, teachers should ensure that projects are historically correct.
- Heritage Fairs encourages cooperative learning and the development of Group projects at the classroom, school, community, and regional levels.
- Student participants at the Regional Fair must be able to discuss their work.
- The project is to be completed as a class.
- The projects must be filmed or photographed (whichever method best showcases the style of the project) and submitted digitally. The projects can be between 3- 10 minutes in length. The title of the project must appear in the beginning of the presentation.
Where to find information for your class project
- It is expected that you will use a variety of sources to deepen your understanding of the topic. Use of various internet sites, books, newspapers, archives, photos, films, interviews with relevant individuals, guest presenters in the class, etc. are all great sources to help you find the information you need. Here is a list of suggested resources.
- Yukon Archives
- Government of Yukon heritage research and publications
- Searching For Our Heritage
- Yukon First Nation Education Directorate
- Explore North
- Yukon Nuggets
- History Hunter newspaper column
- Hidden Histories Society Yukon
- Yukon Register of Historic Places
- Canadian Register of Historic Places
- Yukon Heritage Planning
- Sights and Sites of the Yukon
- Heritage Yukon
- Your Local First Nation(s)