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Learning - Teachers

Bring your students face to face with history.

  • Explore themes of Canadian history, identity and portraiture through lesson plans that interpret the portrait collection.
  • Implement easy-to-use activities designed for classrooms across Canada with clear curriculum connections for use in Social Studies, Language Arts and Visual Arts.
  • Find lesson plans specifically created for your target grade range.

Free School Program: The Portrait Gallery of Canada is offering free, curriculum-based programming inspired by In Your Face: The People's Portrait Project.

Four Kings and One Queen: Explore the international journeys of four ambassadors of the Iroquois Confederacy, both in the 18th Century and in the present day. Activities for Grades 4-6.