The Blanket Exercise by Dr. Daniel Sims was a great way to give students a great base line for teaching about the history First Nations people of Canada. One of the things in education is trying to have a foundation to the topic or subject you are learning about that then you will expand on. This allows use to build knowledge without having to back track every time. A new concept in a subject is rarely completely untethered to all previous knowledge, someone in grade 10 should not be learning what addition is for the first time in their lives, a fourth year chemistry class if not were you learn what a covalent bond it. The Blanket Exercise is build with the idea that you a have not learned a lot about the history of the First Nations people of Canada and will give you a base line to build from as well as giving students a tangible memory to relate back to. When I being up the 60’s Scoop, they will remember them or their classmates leaving the blankets, when I talk about the diseases they can recall how empty the blanket felt. It is also a way to decentralize the classroom and change how a classroom can be used and how anyone can teach. By having their own classmates read not only to events but also the testimonials of Residential school survivors as well as the Victims of many of Canada’s policies to erase First Nations people. It becomes easier to present people with the numbers with they are represented in real life and not just read in a textbook.