Practical teaching strategies for the elementary classroom
Download these professionally developed teaching strategies, designed to help Ontario teachers bring Aboriginal perspectives into the classroom.
- Grade 1 Language – Circle Traditions – Talking Circle (PDF, 150 KB)
- Grade 1 Language – Respect (PDF, 150 KB)
- Grade 1 Language – Treaties (PDF, 154 KB)
- Grade 1 Social Studies – Responsibility (PDF, 200 KB)
- Grade 1 Social Studies – Respecting Mother Earth (PDF, 139 KB)
- Grade 1 Social Studies – The Things We Need (PDF, 202 KB)
- Grade 2 Social Studies – Naming Ceremony (PDF, 153 KB)
- Grade 2 Social Studies – Social Celebrations: Remembrance Day (PDF, 160 KB)
- Grade 2 Social Studies – Seasonal Traditions (PDF, 199 KB)
- Grade 3 Social Studies – 7th Generation Stewardship (PDF, 159 KB)
- Grade 3 Social Studies – Feasts of Thanksgiving (PDF, 197 KB)
- Grade 3 Social Studies – What Settlers Learned from Aboriginal People: Food preservation (PDF, 203 KB)
- Grade 3 Social Studies – What Settlers Learned from Aboriginal People: Technology (PDF, 200 KB)
- Grade 4 Language – Comparing Media Texts: Who Says? (PDF, 148 KB)
- Grade 4 Social Studies – Exchanges Between Communities (PDF, 164 KB)
- Grade 4 Social Studies – Walking in Someone Elses Shoes (PDF, 155 KB)
- Grade 5 Language – Aboriginal Heroes (PDF, 149 KB)
- Grade 5 Language – Creation Stories – Where We All Come From (PDF, 154 KB)
- Grade 5 Language – Stereotypes: Learning to Unlearn (PDF, 158 KB)
- Grade 5 Language – Talking Circle (PDF, 149 KB)
- Grade 5 Social Studies – Celebrating National Aboriginal Day (PDF, 159 KB)
- Grade 5 Social Studies – Using and Making Maps (PDF, 156 KB)
- Grade 6 Social Studies – Achievements of Aboriginal People in Canada (PDF, 158 KB)
- Grade 6 Social Studies – Current Aboriginal Perspectives (PDF, 131 KB)
- Grade 6 Social Studies – Different but Similar: Comparing Algonquian and Iroquoian Nations (PDF, 157 KB)
- Grade 6 Social Studies – Issues Concerning First Nations Today (PDF, 168 KB)
- Grade 7 Language – Aboriginal Poetry (PDF, 149 KB)
- Grade 7 Language – Gestures and Movements in Aboriginal Dances (PDF, 144 KB)
- Grade 7 Language – Viewpoints in Aboriginal and Mainstream Media (PDF, 161 KB)
- Grade 7 History – Cross-Cultural Perspectives (PDF, 145 KB)
- Grade 7 History – Exploring Cultural Differences (PDF, 159 KB)
- Grade 8 History – Important Aboriginal Women (PDF, 155 KB)
- Grade 8 History – Lives of Métis and First Nation Peoples in Western Canada in the 1890s (PDF, 155 KB)
- Grade 8 History – The Red River Rebellion (PDF, 158 KB)
- Grade 8 History – Treaties 1 to 8 (PDF, 151 KB)
- Grade 8 History – Treaties and Legislation – Transforming Lifestyles (PDF, 159 KB)
- Grade 8 Language – Perspectives in Aboriginal Media (PDF, 166 KB)
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/aboriginal/elemStrategies.html
