2nd Grade Science: Birch Bark Lesson
Includes instructions for making a model canoe and a basket.
Includes instructions for making a model canoe and a basket.
Children's book about the importance of sacred tobacco in Ojibwe culture; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Children's story about harvesting wild leek or ramps; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Colouring book with text in Ojibwe and English.
Discusses the importance of the Indigenous invention in the development of Canada.
Additional Material: The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World: 21st Century Curriculum Connections and Video Resource for Manitoba Teachers (Grades 5-9).
Can be adapted for students K-12. There are two activities: harvesting birch sap and making birch syrup.
Total sample for two polls was 2,106 non-Indigenous and 1,1112 Indigenous respondents. Questions were asked about 13 indicators: good understanding of past and present; acknowledgement of government, residential school and ongoing harm, engagement, mutually respectful and nation-to-nation relationships; personal and systemic equality; Indigenous thriving; Indigenous languages; respect for natural world; and apologies.
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.
Although designed for use with the STARLAB cylinder, contains script which can be adapted for use without it.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
General environmental education resource with some references to the Lake Superior watershed.
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Children's book retells a traditional story about how the beaver got his flat tail; In Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Children's story about how each fish has a unique "dance"; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Children's book retells a traditional story about the chickadee; in Ojibwe and English.
Related Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Six primary and eight intermediate lesson plans in subject areas of English language arts, science, and social studies.
Traditional stories include: The Seven Brothers (Big Dipper); Nya-Gwa-Ih, The Celestial Bear; The Seven Star Dancers; The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster (Pleiades), Ga-Do-Waas and His Star Belt (Milky Way); and The Man-Eating Wife, the Little Old Woman and the Morning Star.
Haudenosaunee refers to the six nations (Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), Onayotekaono (Oneida), Onandaga, Guyohkohnyoh (Cayuga), Onondowahgah (Seneca), and Skaruhreh (Tuscarora)) which comprise the Iroquois Confederacy.
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Teacher resource guide.
Discusses the history of Indigenous engagement with media and telecommunication policy and looks at how a consortium composed of academic researchers and First Nations technology organizations used hearings held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to bring three issues to the forefront: open access to transport networks; subsidy support for First Nations community networks; and the need for consultation with Indigenous communities about infrastructure development and service upgrades taking place in their territories.
Results of literature review of academic and other publicly available literature, including policy documents and program reports are discussed under five themes: Indigenous self-determination, health and well-being, environmental stewardship, reconciliation and climate justice and evaluation methodologies.
Includes discussion questions and activity ideas for each volume of the atlas.
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
Primarily list of resources and excerpts from other documents.
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.
Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.
Children's story about the relationship between the Ojibwe and the wolf; in English and Ojibwe.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Children's story about black bears in English and Ojibwe.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Children's story about harvesting wild rice; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Hands-on activity about how the Métis solved transportation issues, including the Red River cart and the York boat.
"An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem." Intended for use with ages 3 to 7.
Children's storybook about the snapping turtle; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Ojibwe language story book about autumn follows the adventures of Nigig (Otter) and Ininishib (Duck) as they go to harvest wild rice. Along the way they learn about lacrosse, hibernation and migration from bear and snapping turtle. Teacher Parent Edition includes translation, breakdown of nouns and verbs used in the story and answers to questions found in the activity book.
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.
Book about the nighttime activities of animals on the Pacific Northwest coast. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade Four.
Lesson plan designed for use with Grade 3 students.
Children's book retells a traditional story about the robin; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.