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2013-2014 Summary of Research: Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN)
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.
Chances Are It's Aboriginal - A Conversation About Aboriginal Foods
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.
First Nations People, Métis and Inuit in Canada: Diverse and Growing Populations
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
Healthy Foods for Navajo Schools: Discoveries From the First Year of a Navajo Farm to School Program
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.
Hunger, Human Experimentation and the Legacy of Residential Schools
Impact of School Gardening on Cree Children's Knowledge and Attitudes toward Vegetables and Fruit
In Our Own Words: Bringing Authentic First Peoples Content to the K-3 Classroom
Increasing Indigenous Children's Access to Traditional Foods in Early Childhood Programs: Executive Summary
Independent Study Unit #1: Content Focus: Food Security in the North
Indigenous Innovation: Universalities and Peculiarities
Indigenous Knowledge and Our Connection to the Land
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Indigenous Perspectives on Education for Well-Being in Canada
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.
Integrating Aboriginal Philosophy into Canadian Home Economics Education: Applying Yatta Kanu's Five Layers of Integration
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.
"It's huge in First Nation culture for us, as a school, to be a role model": Facilitators and Barriers Affecting School Nutrition Policy Implementation in Alexander First Nation
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.
Mexican-American Food Items in the Tucson, Arizona, School Lunch Program
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.