First Peoples Curriculum Resources
At Great Bear Sea net you can a "inquiry-based, educational journey through the Great Bear Sea". It stresses the connection to the land of the many indigenous peoples living in BC's Great Bear Rainforest and Island. They offer a portfolio of units/lesson plan developed by First Nation teachers.
First Nation Education Steering Committee provides the most educational resources. The resource guide for science alone contains the following units:
The resource guide includes 8 engaging multi-grade thematic units:
- Unit 1 – Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Unit 2 – Plants and Connection to Place
- Unit 3 – Power from the Land
- Unit 4 – Bear and Body Systems
- Unit 5 – Climate Change
- Unit 6 – Shaking and Flooding
- Unit 7 – Interconnectedness of the Spheres
- Unit 8 – Ocean Connections
"Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science" is a free book from UVIC indigenous researchers and has motivated significantly the new BC science curriculum. Another great book for which I hope to find time to read...
This is graphic novel and music video about residential schools in Canada. Very touching and important history every Canadian should know. It is one of our activities we present next week under the competency "Social responsibility"
That was my recommendation about indigenous peoples in Amazonia. I am friend with a shaman from this area in Colombia and went with him on several vision quests with hallucinogenic plants there. Very complex story and a great way to know about the world from a different perspective: "The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant."