These lesson plans relate to health and wellness through life transitions and by hearing first-person accounts of the impacts of colonization. These lessons seek to integrate land-based, holistic approaches and culturally responsive frameworks and curricula to support Indigenous students using stories and other cultural practices.
Creation Stories is a community-based research project that focuses on personal interviews with Elders and Knowledge Keepers who share their life experience stories to help expectant and new parent...
Family and Parenting, Teacher TrainingGrade: Families / Parents [Early Childhood Education, Post-Secondary, Professional Development/Continuing Education]
20:00
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 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
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...
History, Civics, Indigenous Ways of Knowing & Being, Social Studies, Health, Indigenous LanguageGrade: 12 [10, 11, Youth (up to age 30), Post-Secondary, Professional Development/Continuing Education]
0:50