The Christmas Wind Story Project “Trading Cards”

One part of the Christmas Wind Story Project that evolved, because it was too good to pass up, was an initiative to fuel communication between the 13 classes across the country. School/Province “Trading Cards” were produced which they mailed to each other so they could learn about the vastness and beauty of our country. (See all trading cards in the gallery below)

There’s a wonderful quote on the first image from the CBC Radio Quebec interview which illustrates why these trading cards were such a powerful tool:

“We talk about our little area, and in their brains, they’re still so egocentric. They don’t realize how big Canada really is.” “It’s the idea that it’s children talking to children, so it’s a children’s eye view of where you live. [In Quebec] what seemed to come up most was the letter they got from Nunavut, because they learned that it was -20oC there in the spring time and I think that really made sense to them, like, wow, it’s really cold. Here’s a group of students chewing over this fact: “It told us that there were no trees. It says, ‘tree … no possible tree’”. It’s like they have this big, blank internal map, and now they have one idea to put in there: ‘No possible tree.’”