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Changemakers Lesson Plans: Remote Learning
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
Cross-Curricular Connect: The Last of the Buffalo
Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.
Digital Indigeneity: Digital Media's Uses for Identity Formation Education, and Activism by Indigenous People in the Northeastern United States
E.-A.: Freestyle Looming and Probability: Grade 12 Foundations of Math
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E-D.2: Quadrilateral Patterning through Indigenous Beading: Grade 5
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
Garden of Relatives Coloring Book
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Glimpsing Our Past: An Archival Photo Project
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists: Teacher's Guide
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Indigenous Arts & Stories
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography
Indigenous History: A Bibliography
Interpretive Guide & Hands-on Activities: Nitssaakita’paispinnaan: We Are Still in Control
Inuit Art and HBC: Lesson Plan
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
Learn about Western Canada in the Early 1900s through the Art of C.D. Hoy: Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 7-12
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.
Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast
Native Art, Native Voices: A Resource for K-12 Learners
Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015): Education Guide
Reconciliation through Revitalization
For use with the article The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation! by Lisa Jane Smith found on page 24 of Remembering the Children.
Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation
Resilience: Teaching Guide
Developed to accompany the exhibition Resilience which featured Indigenous women artists' works displayed on billboards in inner cities and on highways.
Related material: Project Templates; curatorial essay The Resilient Body by Lee-Ann Martin and her curator's talk.
Saskatchewan History - The First Peoples: Plains First Nations
Showing and Telling the Story of Nikis (My Little House): An Arts-Based Autoethnographic Journey of a Cree Adult Educator
Susan Point: Spindle Whorl: Teacher's Study Guide
Although designed to accompany class visit to an exhibition of the Musqueam artist's work, can be used alone.
Teacher Guide for K.C. Adam's Perception: A Photo Series
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Family and Intergenerational Knowledge through the Art of Annie Pootoogook
Includes artist biography, learning activities, explanation of her style and technique, image file, and link to book about the artist.
"These Paintings Have Spirit": Voices Found in Childhood Artwork from Indian Residential Schools
Through Our Eyes: Expressions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Cultures: Grade 9 NAC 10
Uses video clips by five Indigenous artists as a starting point for discussion, writing and research activities.
Traditional Alaska Transition Skills: Introduction to Dene Athabascan Beading
Designed to give teens and young adults with disabilities an improved quality of life, connection to culture and increased work-related skills.
Truthful Engagement: Making the Witness Blanket, an Ongoing Process of Reconciliation
Unsettling Exhibition Pedagogies: Troubling Stories of the Nation with Miss Chief
[Visual Arts: Woodland Style Artwork]
We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
Weaving Math
Uses techniques involved in creating a Coast Salish blanket to teach concepts of slope and equations in Grade 10 Mathematics Curriculum.