Aboriginal Elders: A Grade 12 Unit Lesson Plan
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Primary reading level storybook.
For use with the storybook Askî and Turtle Island.
Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Resource for teaching number, pattern and space/shapes by incorporating images and forms used in First Nations art. Includes black line masters.
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.
Comments on several programs and opportunities that the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC) provides to empower Native people to improve literacy rates.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.
Designed to accompany retelling of traditional Wasco story about how stars came to be arranged in the shapes of animals. Recommended for use with Grade 3 students.
Guide for book containing two humorous trickster stories.
For use with Grades 1 to 4.
Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.
Lesson plan focuses on what cultural appropriation is, how it affects Indigenous peoples and whether it should be regulated by law.
Accompanying Material: Student Version.
Developed in conjunction with the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources
Highlights the treaty talks between the First Nations people and the provincial government in British Columbia.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.