Kiviuq and the Bee Woman By Noel McDermott, Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas: Educator's Resource
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.
Students follow the adventures of an Inuit hunter who is swept out to sea in a storm and must find his way home. Geared toward Grades 10 to 12.
Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.
Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.
WSANEC (Saanich) great flood story. Text in a mixture of English and SENĆOŦEN.
Related material: Lesson Plan by Shauna White and Kathryn Godfrey appropriate for Grade 6 language arts/ social studies.
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.
Written for primary students.
Related Material: Story without text.
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.
Includes traditional stories about the girl who married a star, the bunched stars and scarface and associated activities.
Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.
Includes traditional stories about the sun and the moon, seven stars, and the twins and the hand star and associated activities for each.
Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.
Story describes the movement of stars associated with the cycle of the seasons.
Includes brief discussion of Mourning Dove, text of the traditional story and student exercises.
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Designed to introduce younger readers to Ojibwe history, culture and exercising rights and resource management.
5th edition
Geared toward Grades 3 and 4. Humorous story of Inukpak, a giant who adopts an Inuit hunter because he thinks he is a child.
Uses traditional stories about the Salmon people as a starting point to talk about environmental health and caretaking.
"A Salmon Homecoming Production."
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Looks at the central role of corn in the cultures of the Hopi, Pawnee and Seneca peoples.
Documentary about the unique relationship between the Inuit of Sanikiluaq, Nunavut and the Hudson Bay Common Eider and how changing sea ice and ocean currents caused by massive hydroelectric dams are threatening both the bird and the traditional way of life. Duration:
Related material: Educational Package by Global Environmental Justice Documentaries.
Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Fine Arts. Accompanies animated film of same name.