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.
Defence Studies Research Paper (MDS) -- Canadian Forces College, 2010.
Traditional story about how coyote, with the help of other animals, stole fire from the Fire Protectors and gave it to humans so that they could stay warm during the winter months.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
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.
Highlights the life of a North West Company voyageur and his Indigenous wife that bore Métis children.
Story suitable for Grades K-3.
Includes brief discussion of Mourning Dove, text of the traditional story and student exercises.
Integrated Studies Project (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2010.
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Role playing game which involves John A. Macdonald asking students to become spies and send information back to the government. Suitable for Grades 5-11.
Education Thesis (MEd) -- University of Alberta, 1975
Fifty-three images relating to the fur trade.
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.