One with the Watershed: A Story-based Curriculum for Primary Environmental Education
Uses traditional stories about the Salmon people as a starting point to talk about environmental health and caretaking.
"A Salmon Homecoming Production."
Uses traditional stories about the Salmon people as a starting point to talk about environmental health and caretaking.
"A Salmon Homecoming Production."
Catalogue for exhibition held to mark the 67th anniversary of the lifting of the Potlatch ban.
Related material: Lesson Plan.
Lesson designed for use with elementary school students.
Taken from The Sk u k altx "To Teach in School" Project : First Nations Art and Language Course.
Lesson plan for use with the book Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance.
Based on the article Living Well Together by Aimée Craft and the special issue of Canada's History magazine Treaties and the Treaty Relationship Suitable for Grades 7 to 12.
Developed to accompany the exhibition Resilience which featured Indigenous women artists' works displayed on billboards in inner cities and on highways.
Related material: Project Templates; curatorial essay The Resilient Body by Lee-Ann Martin and her curator's talk.
Uses Cree/Nêhiyaw cultural teachings to support development of healthy relationships with peers, dating partners, family and community. Designed for Grade 9 students.
Lists approximately 150 works.
Topics include seven traditional teachings, explanation of the clan system, and the Wendigo story.
Geared toward Grades 10 to 12.
For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.
Series of nine short animated videos which tell traditional Ankara, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chipewyan, Ho-Chunk, Chippewa, Cree, Mohawk, and Paiute stories about how certain stars and constellations came to be.
Geared toward Grades 7 to 10. The three stories are: :Nuliajuk, Kaugjagjuk, and Nanurluk.
For use with the CBC website which tracks progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action in child welfare, education, language and culture, health, justice and reconciliation.
Stories in book are based on accounts from Indigenous people who attended Kuper Island Residential School. Lesson plan is intended for use with Grades 9 and 10.
Story about a young Inuit shaman who finds himself in the world of the spirits and must master all his powers to make his way home.
Lesson involves having students create a story using coloured illustrations from books as inspiration.
Discusses the characteristics and uses of Pacific coast dugout canoes.
General information on treaties in Canada.
The three books are The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Those Who Run in the Sky by Aviaq Johnston, and Will I See? by David Alexander Robertson.
Turtle Island Reads Teacher's Guide: Introduction & Pre-Reading Activity
Geared toward Grades 9 to 12.
Special themed issue of Canada's History's children's magazine Kayak (September 2018). Suitable for ages 7-12.