Aboriginal Curriculum Integration Project
Aboriginal Peoples: Resources Pertaining to First Nations, Inuit and Métis. 2011 Supplement.
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Birch Sap/Syrup: Activity and Lesson Plan
Can be adapted for students K-12. There are two activities: harvesting birch sap and making birch syrup.
Chapter One Study Guide: Aboriginal Societies
For use with chapter in the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis, contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Chíin: Salmon
Science unit also teaches Haida vocabulary. Intended for use with Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Connecting Traditions: Secsepemc Pre-contact Village Life [Summer Map]
Connecting Traditions: Secsepemc Pre-contact Village Life [Winter Map]
Content and Activities for Teaching about Indians of Washington State: Grades K-6
Covers three geographic regions: Washington coast, Puget Sound and the Plateau. Each topic is divided into pre-contact, contact and contemporary times.
Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum
Finding Our Roots: Indigenous Foods and the Food Sovereignty Movement in the United States
First Nations Agriculture in Saskatchewan
First Nations and Agriculture
Contains links to three modules: Sourcing Food, Learning European Methods, and Preventing Success.
Gáan: Berries
Primary science unit also teaches associated words and phrases in Haida. Suitable for Grades K-1.
Going Wild!: Teaching about Wild Products from BC's Coastal Rainforests: A Guidebook for Educators for Grades 4-7
In Our Own Words: Bringing Authentic First Peoples Content to the K-3 Classroom
Independent Study Unit #1: Content Focus: Food Security in the North
Indigenous Knowledge and Our Connection to the Land
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Indigi-Genuis
Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.
Inuit Cultural Online Resource
Iskigamizigedaa: Let's Boil Maple Sugar
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.
Learning from the Land: Resources and Stories from K-12 Schools to Support Engagement with Indigenous Plants and Pedagogy
Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.
Lesson Plan: Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
Métis Agriculture in Saskatchewan
Métis Traditional Food Number 1
Lesson plan for Grades 1-4 involves students learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, making bannock, and Michif words associated with cooking and food.
Métis Traditional Food Number 2
Lesson plan for Grades 4-7 involves students learning and speaking Michef words associated with food and cooking, learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, and making bannock.
Mino-Te-Mah-Ti-Zee-Win = A Good Way of Life: Colouring Book
My Seasonal Round: An Integrated Unit for Elementary Social Studies and Science
Seasonal round refers to First Nations groups' cycle of moving from one resource-gathering area to another throughout the year. This resource looks patterns in four geographic regions in British Columbia and explores topics such habitat, natural resources, and stability and change. Revised version.
Related material: Blackline masters.
Native American Indian Art
Native North Americans in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12
Native Peoples of North America
Nenda-gikendamang ningo-biboonagak: Niibin
Ojibwe language story book about summer follows the adventures of Nigig (Otter) and Mikinaak (Snapping Turtle) as they harvest birch bark, meet bear picking blueberries and whitetail deer working in his garden. The animals discuss how to feed themselves over winter. Parent Teacher Edition contains translation, breakdown of nouns and verbs used in the story and answers to questions found in the activity book.
nitawi-atāwētān mīciwin = Let's Go Buy Food
[North American Indians: A Collection of Bibliographies, Resource Lists, Questions and Answers, and Other Leaflets]
Pakitahwâwin
Plants & Connection to Place
Teacher's guide.
Qaqamiigux "to hunt for food and collect plants; subsistence": Head Start Traditional Foods Preschool Curriculum
A Sacred Journey: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Aboriginal Students
Secwepemc-kuc: We are the Secwepemc
SEED: A Ktunaxa Nation Resource
Setting the Table: Traditional First Nations Foods Lesson Plans K-8: Foundational Knowledge
Lesson Plans: Food Is a Gift suitable for K-2; Gifts of the Season suitable for Grades 3-5; Gifts of the People suitable for Grades 6-8.
Tea Time
Lesson plan for use with Relatives with Roots written and illustrated by Leah Marie Dorion.
Teaching with Indian Givers
The Three Sisters: Renewing the World
Discusses the long history of Indigenous agriculture, how plants from the New World spread to the Old. and the need to return to traditional practices and regain food sovereignty. Educators share their experiences and lesson plans which use the story of the Three Sisters to teach a variety of subjects. Created to accompany the video.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change
Recommended for BC Science 10 and Science 7.
Traditional Foods Are Healthy Foods
Includes colouring pages, nutritional information, tips for preparation and recipes using plants and animals found in the Northwest Territories.
Traditional Plant Knowledge of the Tsimshian: Unit Plan for Secondary Sciences, Social Studies, and Applied Skills
Recommended for: Science Grades 9-12; Resource Science (forests) Grades 11 and 12; Science and Technology Grade 11; Social Studies Grades 11-12; and Home Economics Grades 11-12.
Traditions, Arts & Trades: Teacher Manual
Although created for the Old Crow Experiential Educational Project, some activities can be adapted for other contexts. Lessons are grouped by Grades 7-9, Grades 4-6, and Grades 1-3.