M.wass's posts

Do you have a favorite Indigenous resource that you will absolutely use in your K-6 classroom?
It can be a book, website, a game, anything that have come across that you would use in your classroom.

Does anyone have any local Southern Alberta Indigenous websites to get information or resources from?

I think that the sooner we can bring the information/history to our students about the Indigenous people of Canada the better as the longer we wait to introduce the topics the more time the students have to get false information and start to listen …

Call for any websites about Inuit Culture that could be brought into a K-6 classroom.

Do you know of any Indigenous resources that would be good to use in a grade 1 classroom?

It looks like this could be one in Alberta, they aren't just focused on Films though but a lot of different arts within the indigenous community.
https://dreamspeakers.org/rubaboo-arts-festival

I agree. It was eye opening and is a must watch! I think if more people were able to have the experiences these people did, it would help change how average Canadians think about Indigenous people.

I believe that if we as teachers do a good job of balancing acitivities out between the different cultures we will be able to have that student feel the sameness within the classroom as it will not be looked upon by the other students as something s…

Treaty Tales- The Handshake and the Pipe- Betty Lynxleg

I believe this is an important concept to learn about throughout the year. There is so much to learn within this topic that it takes more than just one day or one week to really allow students to start to realize what this day is about and why we we…