Aboriginal Elders: A Grade 12 Unit Lesson Plan
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 uses excerpts from five documentaries: The Caribou Hunters, Kanata : Legacy of the Children of Aataentsic, You Are on Indian Land, Riel Country and Circle of the Sun.
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Study guide for the book about a young Inuit girl's day on the land with her grandmother.
Suitable for PreK to Grade 2.
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Student handout for use with Grade 7 Social Studies textbook chapter in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Related Material: "Competition for Trade" Workbook.
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.
Related Material: Competition for Trade Notes (Pt. 2) [Answer Key]
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.
Teacher's resource for the children's adaptation of humorous story which retells the story of Christopher Columbus from an Indigenous point of view.
Suitable for Grades K to 3.
Results of a survey conducted with 3,00 Canadian adults between June 4 and June 8, 2021.
Brief descriptions of the potlatch, first salmon ceremony and first root festival.
Resource for teaching about the impact of settlement and colonization.
Suitable for use with Grade 7 and 8 students.
Designed for Grades 4-9.
Designed to accompany videos featuring Inuit, First Nations, and Metis leaders.
Magazine-style publication features short articles about residential schools in general, as well as specific schools and highlights examples of reconciliation in action in the education system.
Related Material: Educator's Guide.
Developed to accompany the exhibition Resilience which featured Indigenous women artists' works displayed on billboards in inner cities and on highways.
Related material: Project Templates; curatorial essay The Resilient Body by Lee-Ann Martin and her curator's talk.
Three short features are discussed: Honour Thy Father by Gerald Auger; It Had To Be Done by Tessa Desnomie; and Deb-we-win Ge-kend-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle by Lorne Olson.
Focuses on the Mi'maq, Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinabe nations. Answer key.
For use with chapter from textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.
Young children's about the long fight for equal funding for First Nations' education before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Each month children take part in an activity which fosters cross-cultural understanding.
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.
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.
Lesson plan based on the article Black and Indigenous found on page 12 in Kayak children's magazine's special issue Black History in Canada. Suitable for Grades 5 to 8.
Discusses the importance of First Nations peoples' involvement in the conflict and the consequences for them once the war concluded.