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Aboriginal Curriculum Integration Project
All My Relations: Celebrating Canada's Indigenous Peoples: Music Alive Program Teacher Guide
Authentic First Peoples Resources for Grades 10 to 12 and Adult Learning
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.
B.C. First Nations Studies [Textbook]
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac: A Curriculum Guide
English First Peoples: Grade 10-12 Resource Guide
Explorations in Canadian History:; What Can We Learn about Local First Nations Families and Residential Schools from Canada’s History?
Lesson plan uses the books : Shi-Shi-Etko, Shin-Chi’s Canoe, and Stolen Words.
Fatty Legs Novel Study: Answer Key
Fatty Legs Novel Study: Figures of Speech / Imagery
Fatty Legs Novel Study: Student Questions
First Nations, Métis and Inuit Growth Chart Literacy Prompts: K-8
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.
FNESC/FNSA Teacher Resource Guides Units, Lessons, and Activities for Blended or Remote Learning Contexts
"Go Forward with Courage": K – 7: Entry Point Lesson Plans to Help Teachers Indigenize the Curriculum and Classroom
Six primary and eight intermediate lesson plans in subject areas of English language arts, science, and social studies.
Healing the Generations Residential School Curriculum
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide [Social Studies] 5
[An Introduction to Residential School Unit K-7]
A Journey towards Reconciliation: A Shared History
The Learning Circle: Classroom Activities on First Nations in Canada: Ages 12 to 14
Literature Circle Guide to: Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Literature Circle Questions
Little Butterfly Girl: An Indian Residential School Story
Living Voices Native Vision: Study Guide
Lost Innocence: The Teacher Guide
Mi'kmawe'l Tan Teli-kina'muemk: Teaching about the Mi'kmaq
[Model Teaching Unit for] Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac.
Model Teaching Unit - Language Arts - Grades 4-8 for Larry Loyie's As Long as the Rivers Flow
My Name is Seepeetza [by] Shirley Sterling: A Novel Study
My Name is Seepeetza [by] Shirley Sterling: A Novel Study
Recommended grade level 8 and up. Book is about a girl's life at residential school and her contrasting life at home before she was sent there.
On the Side of the Angels: A Memoir by Jose Amaujaq Kusugak: Teaching Guide
Designed for use with students in Grades 7 to 9.
Red Wolf
Lesson plan for use with the book Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance.
Reflections from Them Days: A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut As Told by Nellie Winters, Transcribed and Edited by Erica Obendorfer: Teaching Guide
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Resistance on the Giimooch: The Life of Mary Courchene: Teacher's Guide
Resource uses the medicine wheel as tool for exploring the life of a residential school survivor.
Resource Database
Secret Path: Lesson Planning Templates
Includes links to series of brief lesson plans highlighting themes of awareness, acknowledgement, atonement, action and understanding and accompanying power points, student workbook and residential schools project.
Designed for use with the graphic novel and movie about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966.
For use with junior high school students.
Shi-shi-etko
Shin-Chi's Canoe Written by Nicola I. Campbell, Illustrated by Kim LaFave
Children's book tells the story of two siblings' days at residential school. Lesson plan geared toward Kindergarten to Grade 2.
Social Justice Picture Books: Lesson Plans for the Junior-Intermediate Classroom
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
Stolen Words Written by Melanie Florence and Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard: Teaching Guide
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.
Teacher's Guide for 7 Generations Series
[Teacher's Guide]: No Time to Say Goodbye by Sylvia Olsen
Stories in book are based on accounts from Indigenous people who attended Kuper Island Residential School. Lesson plan is intended for use with Grades 9 and 10.
Teachers' Guide to Shi-Shi-Etko
Lesson plan for children's book about a young girl's last days at home before leaving for residential school. For use with reading ages 3 to 7.