The Interactive Media Commons Department at the Foothills School Division provides some interesting resources to teachers that help enhance learning in the classroom.

Coordinator Barbara Eagles says they have interesting things that the schools all shares.

"We have all kinds of things, we have novels, we have snowshoes, we have theatre lights," said Eagles.  "But right now we are building artifact kits so things like Blackfoot, Metis, Maker Spaces, Pioneers from the past and immigration things along that line and  that fit with the curriculum."   

The Pioneer box is very popular with students.

"We have brown sugar that comes in a cone and old type chocolate. It is see think and wonder. so they look at it and try to identify what it is and what it might be used for and what they might use it for nowadays.

One of the teachers says it is like getting the Glenbow Museum in a their classroom in a box.

The department  just got a special donation from Rob and Lorraine Irvine who spent three years up north.

Lorraine was a teacher at Big Rock School and her husband Rob was a principal at Okotoks Junior High School and they spent three years in the north.

"They came home with a number of different artifacts. So they gave us seal skin, harp seal, fox furs, harpoon equipment and fishing spears."

Also Lorraine's great step uncle Archibald Wishart was a missionary in the Morley area when he was presented this skin by the band. Now it will be used to educate students on truth and reconciliation.