Lesson Plan: Fur Trade Timeline
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in the script.
Designed to teach mathematics through the lens of Squamish Lil'Wat Nations. Lesson themes include building a canoe, weaving, beadwork, drums and drumming, and making masks.
Includes three case studies: Namgis First Nation and the Orca Sand and Gravel Project, Tahltan Iskut First Nation and the Galore Creek Project, and Union of New Brunswick Indians and the Emera Pipeline.
Students participate in game involving the events leading up to and following the Red River Resistance, with special attention to Louis Riel.
A "two-eyed" seeing activity for teaching about solstices and equinoxes.
Story describes the movement of stars associated with the cycle of the seasons.
Includes brief discussion of Mourning Dove, text of the traditional story and student exercises.
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.
Five stories intended for use with Kindergarten students.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide.
Designed for early Cree readers of the Plains Cree dialect. Available in Standard Roman Orthography (no English or syllabics), syllabics, Cree and English, and syllabics only.
Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Fine Arts. Accompanies animated film of same name.
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.