These lesson plans relate to learning land-based learning including teachings about caribou, maple syrup, medicines, shelter, and understanding climate change. Lessons in this category explore past practices and consider contemporary ways of engaging in land-based learning through Elders stories and teachings and understanding of history and resistance to colonization.
This lesson plan involves the process of cooking bison brains. In Part 6 of the Buffalo Hide Tanning and Teachings Video series, the Buffalo Peoples Art Institute share how to brain a hide. This le...
Biology, History, Indigenous Language, On-the-Land, Social Studies, ScienceThis is about learning the art of tanning hide from Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway and Lorne Kequahtooway of the Buffalo People Arts Institute. They will walk us through the process with each video cr...
History, On-the-Land, Nutrition, Social Studies, Biology, Art, Chemistry, Health, Indigenous LanguageThis one-day workshop introduces newcomers to Canada to the foundational history of Indigenous Nations and their historical and contemporary contributions to the country's development. This explora...
Residential Schools and Reconciliation, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, CivicsGrade: Post-Secondary [Families / Parents, Professional Development/Continuing Education, Youth (up to age 30)]
6:00
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-LandGrade: 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
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-LandGrade: 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
This lesson plan is part of a series of four Gatherings shared with NCCIE from the book 'Spirit of the Island: Manitoulin's People ~ Stories of Indigenou...
Health, Art, Family and Parenting, History, Performing Arts or Drama, Civics, Indigenous Language, Social Studies, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & BeingGrade: 12 [Professional Development/Continuing Education, Youth (up to age 30), 10, 11, Post-Secondary]
0:50
This lesson plan is part of a series of four Gatherings shared with NCCIE from the book 'Spirit of the Island: Manitoulin's People ~...
History, Indigenous Language, Social Studies, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Careers, Literacy and LiteratureGrade: 12 [10, 11, Youth (up to age 30), Post-Secondary, Professional Development/Continuing Education]
0:50
This lesson plan is part of a series of four Gatherings shared with NCCIE from the book 'Spirit of the Island - Manitoulin's People ~ Stories of Indigenous-Settler Historical ...
Health, History, Civics, Indigenous Language, Social Studies, Nutrition, On-the-LandGrade: 12 [10, 11, Youth (up to age 30), Post-Secondary, Professional Development/Continuing Education]
0:50