ELEMENTARY Science
- Traditional uses of local animals and clothing (scroll down)...great visuals for younger students!
- Spirit Map on clothing and more on Secwepemc clothing and tanning hides (left sidebar)
- Secwepemc Archeology and tools (left sidebar) made from bones, stone, various and specific wood and plants
- CBC: Ed Jensen is Getting Global Attention For His Traditional Techniques and Stone Tools
- Background information on Shuswap hunting, fishing and gathering
- Secwepemc hunting
- Traditional Secwepemc village life - students love this - both Winter and Summer graphics
- Fishing practices/net construction - specific wood and fibre was required to make nets (“Indian Fishing” by Hilary Stewart – a great resource), dipnet available through Noreen at HGEC
- NEW Secwepemc Fishing Kit available for teachers to sign out with resources, lesson plans and fun classroom activities, HGEC Library
- Great local information on Fishing Tools, as well as many on-line videos describing how both past and present day fishing tools were/are made
- Secwepemc Fishing - left side bar
- Fishing, tools - KIB Museum has a mobile tool/artifact presentation
- Seasons - seasonal activities of the Secwepemc “We are the Shuswap” textbook: a great resource for all (in most book rooms in SD73)
- Spirit Map - Seasonal Activities
- Secwepemc - Seasonal Rounds
- Seasonal Cycle of the Metis: food gathering
- Ethnobotany - how a culture uses plants (food and medicine, tools)
- Plants of the Southern Interior a great resource found in many school libraries
- Secwepemc Ethnobotany Gardens - a local resource -student accessible
- Traditional Uses of Tranquille River Plants - more ethnobotany with great photos
- Some plants and their traditional uses
- What is TEK?
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia
- Indigenous Environmental Studies/ Ecological Sustainability
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The Inuit and Climate Change
- The Tree Book - with Aboriginal uses of trees
- Some Coastal Plants
- "The Healing Power of Plants" website
- The technology of Secwepemc cooking and preservation of foods (left sidebar)
- Skeetchestn Basketry also has on-line videos of pine needle basket making
- Secwepemc Basketry (left sidebar)
- HGEC Kit: Appreciation of First Nations Basketry
- Food preservation practices (Appreciation of First Nations Food Traditions); drying, smoking of meat –the science of this fish was only wind-dried up until a certain date in the Fraser Canyon, moisture content was extremely important or food would spoil
- Caches lined with specific plants for optimum food preservation
- Rocks as Tools -stone artifacts
- Aboriginal Astronomy HGEC Kit -science of the constellations
- Coyote Places the Stars - online PPT lesson plan
- The Amerindian Sky
- Native American Sky Legends - Legends and some useful teaching ideas
- Sky Stories: A First Nations Journey - Teacher's Resource
- Canada Under the Stars -Sky Stories of Aboriginal People
- Star Finder
- Starlore
- The Inuit Sky
- Ojibway, Cree, and Mohawk Unit: 13 Moons: a calendar and season guide
- An interactive site on the Solar System!
- Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge and Weather
- Indigenous Weather Knowledge
- Secwepemc Legend: Coyote & Grizzy Make the Seasons and Night and Day
- Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change - a documentary and More Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
- Treaties and Tuberculosis
- Oral traditions and science - natural disasters explained through traditional stories
- Some interesting resources and links associated to Culturally Responsive Science
- Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions - a 'memory' card game with interesting facts!
- Water: The Sacred Relationship - a collection of video clips which describe the Aboriginal connection to the environment
- Ocean Networks Canada- an amazing website which monitors underwater observatories collecting a bounty of data on physical, chemical, biological, and geological aspects of the ocean. Ocean Network Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans are available online. Ocean Networks has worked closely with coastal BC Aboriginal communities to preserve and protect Indigenous food systems.
- NEW: FNESC Science Guide -provides educators with resources to support increased integration of the rich body of First Peoples (unappropriated) knowledge and perspectives into classrooms and schools in BC