The Barren Grounds: A Novel Study Unit
Designed for Grade 6 students.
Designed for Grade 6 students.
The traditional story of how Wisakedjak caused the great flood and how, with the help of Muskrat, he was able to remake the world.
Extract from Native Voices edited by Freda Ahenakew, Breanda Gardipy, and Barbara Lafond.
Although designed for use with the STARLAB cylinder, contains script which can be adapted for use without it.
Contains links to three modules: Sourcing Food, Learning European Methods, and Preventing Success.
Contains links to three modules: Culture, Trade and Ways of Learning and Knowing.
Modules: First Peoples, Early European Colonization (1600 to 1763), Fur Trade, and From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867).
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.
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.
Topics include the medicine wheel, circle of life, the sacred tree, relationship with the land, oral traditions, examples of plants and their uses, and traditional tobacco usages.
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.
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.
Compilation of previously published material.
Read before the American Geographical Society, at Chickering Hall, December 29th, 1876.
Educational animated short (8:26 min.).
Uses Cree/Nêhiyaw cultural teachings to support development of healthy relationships with peers, dating partners, family and community. Designed for Grade 9 students.
2 volumes
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.
Nine modules: Origins and Connections to the Land; Pre-Contact Cultures; Early European Exploration and Colonization; Nouvelle-France and Cultural Integration; French-English Rivalry; Refugees, Warriors and Reformers; Negotiating Confederation; Furs, Farms and the Métis; and Treaties, War, and the Changing West.
Integrates Dene, Inuvialuit and Inuinnait perspectives on history.
"Territorial Pilot 2011-2012".
Films feature 40 Indigenous tribes and nations and give insights into spiritual practices, foods and medicines, art and music, shelter and land management associated with the natural environment.
Related Material: Videos.
Focuses on five themes: First Nations peoples' lives before contact, the impact of newcomers' arrival due to the fur trade, the importance of the buffalo, understanding what a treaty is, and the significance of the number four.
Discusses case study of traditional education and experiential learning in the Social Studies classroom. Activities would be suitable for Grades 9/10 and 11/12.
To accompany book about Josephine-ba Mandamim, an Ojibwe Grandmother, and her love for water; she has walked around the Great Lakes to raise awareness of the importance of protecting it for future generations.
Appropriate for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-3). English text with some Ojibwe vocabulary.
Series of five short videos: Stories; Collecting Maple Sap; Language; Maples Trees; and Maple Sugar.