2nd Grade Science: Birch Bark Lesson
Includes instructions for making a model canoe and a basket.
Includes instructions for making a model canoe and a basket.
Discusses the importance of the Indigenous invention in the development of Canada.
Additional Material: The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World: 21st Century Curriculum Connections and Video Resource for Manitoba Teachers (Grades 5-9).
Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Six stories connected to the Northwest coast canoe in one volume: Look at What I Found!; Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe; Building of a Canoe; Carving of a Canoe; and Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey.
Accompanying Materials: Teacher's Guide; Learner's Text; Pacific Map; Navigation
Primarily designed for Kindergarten to Grade 5 students enrolled in Chinuk Wawa immersion programs.
What Do I Bail? student booklet in English. What Do I Bail? student booklet in Chinuk Wawa.
Covers three geographic regions: Washington coast, Puget Sound and the Plateau. Each topic is divided into pre-contact, contact and contemporary times.
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
Discusses the lifeways of Indigenous peoples of Montana just prior to contact and the impact that Europeans had on them.
Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.
Developed to address problems of youth suicide and substance abuse through a sense of cultural belonging and revitalization.
Recommended for Grades 4-8.
Recommended for Grade 11 Social Studies.
Additional material: The River People: Living and Working in Oona River student resource book.
For use with the article The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation! by Lisa Jane Smith found on page 24 of Remembering the Children.
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.
Contains links to lesson plans for various levels under the themes of Indigenous Knowledge, Historical Consciousness, Evidence, Cultural Expressions, Colonialism, Ancient Civilizations, Mapping, Oral Traditions, Origin Stories, Resources, and Primary Sources.
Educators' section of website that focusses on Fijian, Haida and Squamish canoe traditions and their importance in each culture.
Focuses on Tlingit language and culture. Lesson plan is for Grades 2-3.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.