First Nations, Métis and Inuit Growth Chart Literacy Prompts: K-8
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.
Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.
Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.
Primary science unit also teaches associated words and phrases in Haida. Suitable for Grades K-1.
General environmental education resource with some references to the Lake Superior watershed.
Ethnobotany lesson plan also teaches associated Haida words and phrases. Suitable for Grades K-2.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story. Lesson plan for Grades 4-6.
Related Material: Teacher resource including Tlingit language wall cards, retelling materials, transformation story elements, reader's theatre script for The Woman Who Married a Bear, and calendar icons.
Lesson teaches the cultural significance of totems poles, how they're constructed and Haida vocabulary relating to them. Designed for Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Traditional stories include: The Seven Brothers (Big Dipper); Nya-Gwa-Ih, The Celestial Bear; The Seven Star Dancers; The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster (Pleiades), Ga-Do-Waas and His Star Belt (Milky Way); and The Man-Eating Wife, the Little Old Woman and the Morning Star.
Haudenosaunee refers to the six nations (Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), Onayotekaono (Oneida), Onandaga, Guyohkohnyoh (Cayuga), Onondowahgah (Seneca), and Skaruhreh (Tuscarora)) which comprise the Iroquois Confederacy.
Retelling of a traditional Tlingit story also known as Box of Daylight or How Raven Brought Light to the World. Lesson plan intended for Grades K-5.
Related Material: Teacher Resource.
To accompany film based on the book of the same name by Richard Wagamese.