How can an everyday object like an egg engage students in conversations about history? How can students connect to the past using objects lying around the house?

Join Dr. Madeleine Mant (University of Toronto) as she shows an egg-cellent source and how it connects to the 1942 Canadian Food Guide. Dr. Mant uses the egg to show us how we can use everyday objects as an entry point to teach students about the past, their own positionality, and how health history is all around us.

Bring meaningful learning into your classroom using the “Anthropology of Health in 100 Objects” project, asking students to connect an object to a theme and answer the questions: What is the item, why was it selected, how does it relate to the theme, and how does it connect to a broader (re)examination of Canadian history?

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