Akilak's Adventure by Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Illustrated by Charlene Chau: Educator's Resource
Designed for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Designed for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Teachers' resource uses works by Michael Barber, Carl Beam, Monique (Aura) Bedard, Janice Brant, Deron Ahsén:nase Douglas, Lorrie Gallant, Kelly Greene , Summer Hill, Janus, Nancy King (Chief Lady Bird), Quinn Smallboy and Saul Williams.
Searchable website is an online portal giving educators access to Indigenous sky-knowledge resources.
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion program. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary.
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
Activities for the following titles: A Promise is a Promise; Awasis Bannock; Bowwow Powwow; Gifts from Raven; Go Show the World; How Raven Stole the Sun; I Like Who I Am; My Heart Fills with Happiness; Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak; Sweetest Kulu; Walk on the Shoreline; We Are Water Protectors; Windy Lake; and You Hold Me Up.
Simple activities and questions to help parents who are reading and discussing books with children.
Uses primary sources of information on the Kamloops, Shubenacadie, Beauval, and Blue Quills residential schools. Suitable for use with students in Grades 5-12.
Activities teach about types of maps, using a map grid, absolute and relative location, latitude and longitude, reading a key, determining directions, etc. Maps appear at end of document.
Suitable for primary grades.
Intended for Grade 4 Social Studies.
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Content focused on the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewiyik, and Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) peoples of New Brunswick.
Artwork designed by youth artists from the Six Nations, Grand River Territory.
For use with Grades 5-12.
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Series of eight modules designed to teach Grade 6 students about the importance of biodiversity, local community and Indigenous knowledge by creating gardens. Each module should take place over the course of a week.
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Elaine Alexie, Erik Lee, and Carmen Miller. Topics include First Nations groups of central Alberta and the Boreal forest, brief survey of Indigenous art in the twentieth century, abstract art, and First Nations traditional art forms and materials.
Power point and slide notes.
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
Lists illustrated bboks, novels, videos, DVDs & film, short story/creative writing, and non-fiction for primary, intermediate, secondary grades.
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.
Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.
Hoy was a photographer who worked in Quesnel, British Columbia at the start of the twentieth century, when the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Rushes were taking place, resulting in different cultural groups coming together in one location. Many of his portraits were of Indigenous people living in the area. Designed to complement the online exhibition Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy: How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community.
Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.
Website includes curriculum connections, lesson plans and inquiry-based activities for primary, junior and intermediate grades for three topics: lessons from the earth, lessons from the water, and lessons from beyond.
Colouring book teaches words in Northern and Heritage Michif and English.
Story is about a family throwing a party.
Designed for Grade 12 Social Studies classes. Focuses on the numbered treaties signed in Manitoba.
List of resources grouped by Grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12. Some are specific to Michigan, but most are general.
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.