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.
Can be adapted for students K-12. There are two activities: harvesting birch sap and making birch syrup.
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.
Contains links to three modules: Sourcing Food, Learning European Methods, and Preventing Success.
Story and activities focus on the harvest of wild rice. English with some words translated into Ojibwe.
Text in English with some words translated into Ojibwe.
Topics include climate change, demographics, Indigenous governance, housing, human rights, Indigenous languages, migration, famous people, original place names, residential schools, seasonal cycles, symbols, timeline, trade routes, and treaties, land disputes, agreements and rights.
Although activities were created for the giant floor map, they can be adapted to the printable tile version.
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.
Primary-level storybook.
Lesson plan for use with Relatives with Roots written and illustrated by Leah Marie Dorion.