Aboriginal Elders: A Grade 12 Unit Lesson Plan
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Children's book tells the story how a Cree boy escapes the cannibal spirit with the help of Wesakaychak.
Resource for teaching number, pattern and space/shapes by incorporating images and forms used in First Nations art. Includes black line masters.
Comments on several programs and opportunities that the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC) provides to empower Native people to improve literacy rates.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.
Recommended for Grades 9-10 social Studies.
Related: Volume 2.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
Story about a group of children who are pursued by a weetigo but escape with the help of Wesakaychak.
Stories collected from storytellers and writers from Fort Resolution, Hay River, Fort Smith, and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Text in Chipewyan and English.
Recommended for Grade 11 Social Studies.
Additional material: The River People: Living and Working in Oona River student resource book.
Describes the partnership of Atlantic Canada's First Nation Help Desk with Industry Canada's SchoolNet GrassRoots program. The goals are to bring First Nations schools in the Maritimes up to the same standard for connectivity as schools run by the province.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.25.
Fifty-three images relating to the fur trade.