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Birch Sap/Syrup: Activity and Lesson Plan
Can be adapted for students K-12. There are two activities: harvesting birch sap and making birch syrup.
Chapter One Study Guide: Aboriginal Societies
For use with chapter in the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis, contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
First Nations and Agriculture
Contains links to three modules: Sourcing Food, Learning European Methods, and Preventing Success.
Indigi-Genuis
Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.
Iskigamizigedaa: Let's Boil Maple Sugar
Colouring storybook features a grandparent and grandchildren engaging in conversations about traditional teachings, when to begin and end harvesting, the equipment used, and processing and use of maple sugar. Text in English with some Ojibwe words interspersed.
Lesson Plan: Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
Nenda-gikendamang ningo-biboonagak: Niibin
Ojibwe language story book about summer follows the adventures of Nigig (Otter) and Mikinaak (Snapping Turtle) as they harvest birch bark, meet bear picking blueberries and whitetail deer working in his garden. The animals discuss how to feed themselves over winter. Parent Teacher Edition contains translation, breakdown of nouns and verbs used in the story and answers to questions found in the activity book.
Tea Time
Lesson plan for use with Relatives with Roots written and illustrated by Leah Marie Dorion.
The Three Sisters: Renewing the World
Discusses the long history of Indigenous agriculture, how plants from the New World spread to the Old. and the need to return to traditional practices and regain food sovereignty. Educators share their experiences and lesson plans which use the story of the Three Sisters to teach a variety of subjects. Created to accompany the video.