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.
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.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
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.
Lesson plan discusses construction and use of canoes, York boats, and the Red River cart, as well as the role of snowshoes, dogs, and horses.
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.
Recommended for Grade 10-11 Social Studies and First Nations Studies.
Includes explanation of the main features of the two knowledge systems and three brief case studies: Indigenous plant classification and nomenclature; pine mushroom industry in Northwestern BC; smallpox epidemic of 1862; and AIDS and its impact on Indigenous populations.
Recommended for Grade 8 Biology.