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Connecting on Country: Closing the Digital Divide for First Nations Students in the Age of COVID-19
Engaging Indigenous Urban Youth in Environmental Learning: The Importance of Place Revisited
An Explorer's Guide to Treaties in Manitoba: An Exercise in Mapping Skills
Activities teach about types of maps, using a map grid, absolute and relative location, latitude and longitude, reading a key, determining directions, etc. Maps appear at end of document.
Geologic Oral Traditions
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
The Gifts Within: Carrying Each Other Forward in Aboriginal Education
Indigenous Knowledge and Our Connection to the Land
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Indigenous Knowledge & Pollinator Gardens: Workshop Series
Series of eight modules designed to teach Grade 6 students about the importance of biodiversity, local community and Indigenous knowledge by creating gardens. Each module should take place over the course of a week.
Indigenous Plant Guide
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
Indigenous Storytelling with Elder Hazel
Introduction to the Special Issue on Indigenous Science Education From Place: Best Practices on Turtle Island
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.
Learning & Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today
Lessons from the Earth and Beyond: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the Classroom: Educator Resources
Website includes curriculum connections, lesson plans and inquiry-based activities for primary, junior and intermediate grades for three topics: lessons from the earth, lessons from the water, and lessons from beyond.
Making Connections Through Experiential Education: Teachers and Students in Science 10
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Educator Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Student Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
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.
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh = This Is How I Know, Written by Brittany Luby, Illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, Translated by Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere
"An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem." Intended for use with ages 3 to 7.
Moon of the Crusted Snow: Reading Guide
To accompany book written by Waubgeshig Rice which tells the story of a small northern Anishinaabe community which finds itself completely isolated from the external world just as winter sets in. The key to survival is reconnecting with the land. Guide is arranged around the themes of land, colonialism, community, gender, language, traditions and culture, and real world events.o accompany story written by
Mother Earth, Grandfather Sun
A "two-eyed" seeing activity for teaching about solstices and equinoxes.
Muin: The Celestial Bear: A Hight Sky Story from the Mi'kmaw Nation
Story describes the movement of stars associated with the cycle of the seasons.
New Project Helps Build Home for Whitecap Family
Ojibway Nature Center Colouring Book
Each picture is introduced with a story which includes words in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language.
OLC Partners With Schools to Improve Math, Science
Pilimmaksarniq: Working Together for the Common Good in Science Curriculum Development and Delivery in Nunavut
Re-visioning the Future of Education for Native Youth
in Rural Schools and Communities
Respecting Tobacco: Traditional vs. Commercial Use
Educational animated short (8:26 min.).
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.
Social Justice Picture Books: Lesson Plans for the Junior-Intermediate Classroom
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
SWC Science Instructors Show Science Can Be Fun
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Land & Indigenous Worldviews through the Art of Norval Morrisseau
Includes biography, discussion of artist's style and techniques learning activities, and image file. Designed to complement Norval Morrisseau: Life and Work by Carmen Robertson.
Toward An Understanding of the Ecology of Indigenous Education
Discussess the challenges of implementing Indigenous education, from an Indigenous viewpoint.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change
Recommended for BC Science 10 and Science 7.
Traditional Harvesting Number 1: Wild Rose
Lesson plan for Grades 1-4 involves learning about growing and harvesting plants and their names in Michif.
Additional resources: Plant Harvesting Image Cards; Michif Terms Teacher Card.
Traditional Harvesting Number 2: Wild Rose
Lesson plan for Grades 4-7 goals include recognizing the importance of harvesting, and identifying and describing the uses of several plants using Michif and English terms.
Traditional Legends: Meanings on Many Levels
Discusses the Mi'kmaq traditional story of the Celestial Bear hunt (Ursa Major).
Traditional Plants
Photographs of 20 plants accompanied by a brief description of their medicinal uses.
Understanding Elementary Teachers' Use of Science Teaching Time: Lessons From the Big Sky Science Partnership
Wáhta Teachings
Educational resource about the sugar maple combines traditional Indigenous Knowledge and plant science.
Related Material: Ziizibaakwadgummig: The Sugar Bush.
Watching the Skies: An Overview of Indigenous Astronomy Curricula for Canadian K-12 Teachers
After review of existing literature authors conducted systematic survey of electronic curricular resources pertinent to the Ontario context and readily available to educators. Google, YouTube and university databases were searched. Eighty-two sources were identified, 60% of which were by an Indigenous author/partner/illustrator.