SECONDARY 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)
- Background information on Shuswap hunting, fishing and gathering *
- Secwepemc hunting and more on hunting
- Traditional Secwepemc village life - 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 sidebar)
- Fishing, tools - KIB Museum has a mobile tool/artifact presentation
- Secwepemc Archeology and tools (left sidebar) made from bones, stone, various and specific wood and plants-mechanical energy
- CBC: Ed Jensen is Getting Global Attention For His Traditional Techniques and Stone Tools
- Seasons - seasonal activities of the Secwepemc “We are the Shuswap” (great visuals in this book)
- Spirit Map seasonal activities
- Secwepemc Seasonal Rounds
- Ethnobotany - how a culture uses plants (food and medicine, tools)
- Secwepemc Ethnobotany Gardens - a local resource -student accessible
- Traditional Uses of Tranquille River Plants - more ethnobotany with great photos
- Chemistry Rooted in Cultural Knowledge: Unearthing the Links Between Antimicrobial Properties in Food and Medicinal Plant Resources of the Secwepemc...
- Some plants and their traditional uses
- What is TEK?
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia
- Traditional Knowledge for Health - Nłeʔkepmx Traditional Food Relationships
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing
- What about the Berries? Managing for Understorey Species
- Indigenous Environmental Studies/ Ecological Sustainability
- Plant use in the local Skeetchestn area (including detailed maps)*
- Excellent local plant identification sites, more, and still more!*
- The Tree Book - with Aboriginal uses of trees
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The Inuit and Climate Change
- Some Coastal Plants
- Stó:lō Traditional Food ‘Talk’ as Metaphor for Cross-cultural Relations
- "The Healing Power of Plants" website
- ”Plants of the Southern Interior” a fantastic resource - check your school library
- The technology of Secwepemc cooking and preservation of foods (left sidebar)
- A Management Strategy For Species at Risk in a Semi-urban Landscape on the Shuswap Reserve Lands at Invermere, B.C.
- 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
- Aboriginal Astronomy HGEC Kit -science of the constellations
- The Amerindian Sky
- Native American Sky Legends - Legends and some useful teaching ideas
- Sky Stories - A First Nations Journey Teachers Resource
- Canada Under the Stars -Sky Stories of Aboriginal People
- Star Finder
- The Night Sky
- Starlore
- Ojibway, Cree, and Mohawk Unit: 13 Moons: a calendar and season guide
- Cree Mythology Written in the Stars -with audio
- An interactive site on the Solar System!
- The Inuit Sky
- Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge and Weather
- Indigenous Weather Knowledge
- Secwepemc Legend: Coyote & Grizzy Make the Seasons and Night and Day
- Science and technology of the natural world
- Great explanation of mechanical energy in the bow & arrow
- More about stored mechanical energy of the bow & arrow
- Rocks as Tools - stone artifacts with some great PPTS -mechanical energy
- Traditional points, arrowheads, and mauls are also great examples of mechanical energy. Invite a guest local Aboriginal toolmaker or archaeologist in to speak. Many tools on display at the Secwepemc Museum
- The Physics of a Dead-fall Trap, Energy & work in a Dead-fall Trap, Video explanation on Dead-fall Traps -mechanical energy
- Sound energy -great lessons on Aboriginal Drumming on Native Drumming website
- Several Aboriginal Drum Kits in the HGEC!
- Oral traditions and science - natural disasters explained through traditional stories
- Some interesting resources and links associated to Culturally Responsive Science
- Correlations Between Catastrophic Paleoenvironmental Events and Native Oral Traditions of the Pacific Northwest
- British Columbia First Nations and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19
- How science and First Nations oral tradition are converging -CBC
- A Time Transect of Exomes From a Native American Population Before and After European Contact
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Mid-Holocene Individuals from the Northwest Coast of North America Reveals Different Evolutionary Paths for Mitogenomes
- The Genetic Prehistory of the New World Arctic
- Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change - a documentary and More Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
- The Effects of Climate Change on First Nations in Canada
- Indigenous connection to the land and Climate Change -some interesting insight
- Aboriginal Contributions & Inventions - a 'memory' card game with interesting facts!
- Vitamin C in Saskatoon Berries
- Metis Soap Making
- 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