Explorations in Haida Formline Design: Abstract Paintings
Four lessons designed for Grades 8-12.
Four lessons designed for Grades 8-12.
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Artwork designed by youth artists from the Six Nations, Grand River Territory.
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Salish artist retells the traditional story while drawing step-by-step visual interpretation.
Duration: 1:30:23.
Guide to accompany film, I Can Make Art ... Like Andrew Qappik. Target ages 9-12. Contains previewing and post viewing activities, follow up discussion and activity ideas.
Links to pages for Sylix, Salteaux, Anishinabemowin (Algonquin), Cree, and Inuktitut languages, and Every Child Matters.
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Elaine Alexie, Erik Lee, and Carmen Miller. Topics include First Nations groups of central Alberta and the Boreal forest, brief survey of Indigenous art in the twentieth century, abstract art, and First Nations traditional art forms and materials.
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
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.
Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.
Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.
Hoy was a photographer who worked in Quesnel, British Columbia at the start of the twentieth century, when the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Rushes were taking place, resulting in different cultural groups coming together in one location. Many of his portraits were of Indigenous people living in the area. Designed to complement the online exhibition Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy: How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community.
Aimed at educators in Grades 9-12 and college-level instructors. For use with book of the same name.
Lesson plan for elementary school students which looks at Native American dolls, how they are made and the cultures they represent.