How Fisher Went to the Skyland: The Origin of the Big Dipper An Ojibwe Story from the Great Lakes Region
Retelling of a traditional story.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Special digital edition of Canada's History's magazine for children Kayak. Suitable for ages 7-12
Geared toward Kindergarten to Grade 3. Story is about a Inuit girl who learns about traditional naming practices.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
Story about a group of children who are pursued by a weetigo but escape with the help of Wesakaychak.
Teacher resource guide.
Website includes links to three modules on treaties and five on the Indian Act and the reserve system.
Student worksheet for Indian Act and Treaties.
Lesson plans for use with the stories The Little Duck Sikihpsis, The Good Luck Cat, Jingle Dancer, The Moccasins, and Red Parka Mary.
To be used in conjunction with book by Thomas King. Compilation includes information about the author, interviews, book reviews and discussion questions, as well as general article on Understanding and Navigating Privilege While Travelling.
For use with Grades 5-12.
Includes discussion questions and activity ideas for each volume of the atlas.
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.
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
Focuses on Indigenous vs. non-Indigenous representations of Indigenous peoples and their stories in film.
Additional material:
Links to pages for Sylix, Salteaux, Anishinabemowin (Algonquin), Cree, and Inuktitut languages, and Every Child Matters.
Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.
Historical background information and instructions for various ball games, lacrosse, target games, and wrestling.
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.
Primarily list of resources and excerpts from other documents.
Power point and slide notes.
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
Includes instructions for 13 traditional games. Recommended for Grade Five.
Student handout.
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.
Individual games for teaching Dakota, Cree, Ojibwe, Oji-Cree and Dene.
Lesson plan to accompany the book Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. Designed for use with Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Children's storybook in Mi'kmaq and English. Contains links to audio of individual words or the entire page.
Website contains links to educational material for Kindergarten to Grade 12, including summary of housing topics, lessons plans, E-learning games and guides, and activity booklets. Content is arranged around 4 themes: traditional teaching of the community, First Nations housing topics, home maintenance and home safety.
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain 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 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.
Lesson plans for math, literacy and French as a second language using themes from the books The Water Walker, Sharing Our Stories, When We Are Kind, and Let's Play Waltes.
Uses the characters of turtle, wolf and beaver to educate the audience about treaties and the treaty relationship. Suitable for all ages.
Related Material: Student Workbook.
Primary reading level storybook.
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.
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.
Written for primary students.
Related Material: Story without text.
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"
Book recommended for Grade 5 and up.
Colouring book teaches words in Northern and Heritage Michif and English.
2nd edition.
Children's story about the relationship between the Ojibwe and the wolf; in English and Ojibwe.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
List of resources grouped by Grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12. Some are specific to Michigan, but most are general.
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.
Designed for Grades 4-9.