Lesson Plans – Harvesting

These lesson plans relate to harvesting foods and medicines including medicine walks, using maple syrup, making tea, and understanding consent with the land when harvesting plants for medicine.

Sirop d'érable et changements climatiques

Cette activité permet d'enseigner aux élèves les fonctions des différentes composantes d'un érable, et la façon d'utiliser un diagramme de dispersion pour rendre compte de la relation entre la réco...

Biology, History, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Math, Social Studies

Science

1:50

Histoires de Premières Nations

Cette activité se concentre sur la reconnaissance et l’appréciation du rôle de l’histoire, du récit et de la tradition orale dans l’expression des perspectives, des valeurs, des croyances et des po...

English Language Arts, History, Social Studies

Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Grade: 4 [3, 5]

0:30

Explorer le passé

Cette activité vise l'enseignement de l'histoire autochtone locale et donne aux élèves des occasions d'explorer le passé de leurs familles.

Family and Parenting, History, Indigenous Language, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Archaeology, Civics, English Language Arts

Social Studies

5:00

Récit d’un aîné

Les élèves découvrent la chasse à l’orignal du point de vue d’un aîné, ainsi que la façon dont les cinq sens humains sont utilisés pour chasser. ...

English Language Arts, Health, Nutrition, Biology, History, Science, Physical Education, Indigenous Language, Social Studies

Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Grade: 4 [3, 5]

0:30

Making Spruce Gum Tea

This lesson includes two activites. The first is on how to harvest the spruce gum, and the second is on how to prepare the spruce gum to use as medicine tea. Within this teaching, students will lea...

Health, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, On-the-Land

Traditional Medicines

Grade: Youth (up to age 30) [Families / Parents, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Professional Development/Continuing Education, Post-Secondary, Early Childhood Education]

6:00

Consent from the Land with Spruce Boughs

This lesson plan focuses on how the Dene practice consent with the land when harvesting spruce boughs for their wall tents. This lesson was taught to students at a Dechinta land-based semester on M...

History, Traditional Medicines, On-the-Land

Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Grade: Youth (up to age 30) [Families / Parents, 3, 6, 9, 12, 1, 4, 7, 10, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, 2, 5, 8, 11, Post-Secondary, Professional Development/Continuing Education]

3:30

Ratios of Maple Syrup and Sweet Water

This lesson plan examines ratios of sweet water to maple syrup to determine how much sweet water is needed to produce litres, gallons, or massive volumes of maple syrup, e.g. Canada's annual maple ...

Commerce or Business, History, Science, Social Studies, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Math

1:35

Measuring Sweet Water and Maple Syrup

The focus for this lesson plan is the measurement and the amount of sweet water that is required to produce maple syrup or maple sugar. It is written as one lesson plan but it could easily be devel...

History, Science, Social Studies, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Nutrition, Biology, Indigenous Language

Math

1:35

Maple Syrup and Climate Change

This lesson plan allows students to explore functions of the different structures found within a tree and to use scatter plots to consider the relationship between sweet water harvesting and climat...

Math, Biology, History, Social Studies, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Science

1:50

Tree Tapping

This lesson plan explores how we know when a maple tree is mature enough for tapping to collect sweet water. Attention to a tree's indicators will be observed, such as circumference and texture of ...

Nutrition, Science, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, History, Social Studies, Biology, Indigenous Language

Math

1:35

The Seasons

This lesson looks at sugar maple trees throughout the seasons and is designed for young learners. It is written as one lesson plan but could easily be developed into multiple shorter lessons or uni...

Art, Science, Social Studies, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Biology, Indigenous Language

Math

Grade: Kindergarten [Early Childhood Education, 1]

1:35

First Nation Stories

This lesson plan focuses on recognizing and appreciating the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples' perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view. It will als...

English Language Arts, History, Social Studies

Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Grade: 4 [3, 5]

0:30

An Elder's Tale

Students will learn about moose hunting from an Elder's perspective, and how the five human senses are used to hunt.

English Language Arts, Health, Nutrition, History, Biology, Indigenous Language, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies

Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Grade: 4 [3, 5]

0:30

Food Resources in Nunatsiavut, Labrador

The lesson plan explores: i) how the Inuit maintained a healthy lifestyle in the past, without access to foods from each of the four food groups; and ii) the importance of animals and edible plants...

English Language Arts, Nutrition, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being

Health

5:00

Exploring the Past

This lesson plan teaches students about local Indigenous history and fosters opportunities for students to inquire about and to explore their family histories.

English Language Arts, Family and Parenting, History, Indigenous Language, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Civics, Archaeology

Social Studies

5:00

Medicine Walk

This lesson plan provides students with a hands-on experience of gathering local, traditional medicines of the Stó:lō people.

Indigenous Language, Science, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Health

Traditional Medicines

Grade: 2 [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Youth (up to age 30)]

1:00

Cedar Weaving

This lesson plan introduces the students to the Coast Salish cedar weaving.

Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Social Studies, Indigenous Language

Art

Grade: 4 [2, 3, 5, 6]

1:00