The Earliest Americans: Reader
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources
Website developed to provide support for educators by increasing "awareness, understanding, application of First Nations, Métis and Inuit histories, perspectives and ways of knowing for the purpose of implementing treaty and residential schools education and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action for education".
Lesson plan uses the books : Shi-Shi-Etko, Shin-Chi’s Canoe, and Stolen Words.
Designed for Grade 4.
Book is Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's memoir about attending residential school for two years. This lesson plan uses Grade 6 Program Learning Outcome (PLO)s.
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.
For use with the article The Business That Created a Country found on p. 6 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades1 to 5.
General environmental education resource with some references to the Lake Superior watershed.
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary of terms.
"Field Validation Version."
Content focused on the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewiyik, and Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) peoples of New Brunswick.
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Special digital edition of Canada's History's magazine for children Kayak. Suitable for ages 7-12
Language arts activities in Inuktitut and English for students in Grades 2 and 3.
Salish artist retells the traditional story while drawing step-by-step visual interpretation.
Duration: 1:30:23.
Script adapted from one of the short stories in Indian Shoes. Through students reading parts in script activity is meant to develop reading fluency.
Topics include climate change, demographics, Indigenous governance, housing, human rights, Indigenous languages, migration, famous people, original place names, residential schools, seasonal cycles, symbols, timeline, trade routes, and treaties, land disputes, agreements and rights.
Although activities were created for the giant floor map, they can be adapted to the printable tile version.
Involves students researching leaders Nicolle Gonzalez, Roxanne White, Madonna Thunderhawk, and Auntie Pua Case and their work using ancestral knowledge to protect the sacred.
Colouring storybook features a grandparent and grandchildren engaging in conversations about traditional teachings, when to begin and end harvesting, the equipment used, and processing and use of maple sugar. Text in English with some Ojibwe words interspersed.