Gyáa'aang: Totem Poles
Lesson teaches the cultural significance of totems poles, how they're constructed and Haida vocabulary relating to them. Designed for Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Lesson teaches the cultural significance of totems poles, how they're constructed and Haida vocabulary relating to them. Designed for Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Traditional stories include: A Man Entertained by The Thunderers; The Horned Serpent Runs Away With A Girl Who Is Rescued By The Thunderer; Niagara Falls and the Thunderbeings; and The Thunder Beings and the Hunter.
Discusses how to combine Indigenous ways of knowing and traditional teaching methods with Western methodologies to produce a two-eyed seeing approach to science education. Designed for the Alaska context but can be adapted to other regions.
Developed to address problems of youth suicide and substance abuse through a sense of cultural belonging and revitalization.
Discusses program linking a farm with a Navajo community-based charter elementary school and looks at general issues which should be considered when forming such a partnership.
Developed for Grades 7 and 8. Students compare and contrast the two leaders' responses to the events of the late nineteenth century; one confrontational, the other conciliatory. Designed to supplement material found in Chapter 7 of Montana: Stories of the Land.
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Looks at the lack of research in identifying Indigenous students aptitude for math.
Lesson plan for use with picture book by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Krykorka which is the story of a little Inuit girl who is lured into a cave by an Ijiraq who refuses to take her home. She outwits him and finds her way back using an inuksugaq as a landmark. Recommended for Grades Kindergarten to 2.