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Reconciliation Activities for Young Children

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Plaintalk 7 - First Nations Historical Timelines and Maps

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Plaintalk 9 - First Nations Holistic Lifelong Learning Model

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Plaintalk 10 - First Nations Performance Indicators Checklist

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Plaintalk 11 - First Nations Control Over First Nations Education

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Plaintalk 17 - First Nations Quality of Life

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Plaintalk 18 - Ending Violence Against Women

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Plaintalk 19 - Employment and Unconventional Jobs of the Future

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Plaintalk 19 - First Nations Economic Growth and Employment

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Plaintalk 20 - First Nations Accountability

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Plaintalk 21 - Practical Guidelines for Writing Proposals

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Plaintalk 22 - An Overview of The Assembly of First Nations

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This Is Emily Yeung Making A Medicine Wheel

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March 7 - Robert Ogilvie Elementary School hosts blanket exercise

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Residential School

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Residential School

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Treaties: Making Promises

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Empowering the Spirit.        This website provides support for all levels within school jurisdictions to increase awareness, understanding and application of First Nations, Métis and Inuit histories, perspectives and ways of knowing for the purpose of implementing treaty and residential schools education and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action for education.  

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Empowering the Spirit.        This website provides support for all levels within school jurisdictions to increase awareness, understanding and application of First Nations, Métis and Inuit histories, perspectives and ways of knowing for the purpose of implementing treaty and residential schools education and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action for education.  

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Link the Seven Sacred Teachings to "big ideas" of character and citizenship education, such as character, community, cooperation, courage, fairness, friendship, honour, respect, interdependence, justice, loyalty, commitment, responsibility, sharing and love.

Provide a space in the school or classroom that highlights "Everyday Teachings" and celebrates everyday actions and stories that students experience or observe in the school and community.

Encourage students to transfer the Seven Sacred Teachings to their learning experiences across different subject areas.

Create opportunities to interact and be good citizens: cooperative learning, peer leadership, supportive clubs, student council, social justice projects, service learning and ceremonies.

Ideas for partnering between grade levels

Assign specific Teachings to different grade levels in your school. Encourage students in grade levels to share stories, experiences, questions and inquiries around their value and with each other. For example, Grade 1 students may focus on kindness all year and Grade 6 students may focus on a more sophisticated value such as leadership.

Build a literature collection with varied reading levels that exemplifies each of the Teachings. Have students in specific grade levels select and share examples of the values illustrated in a piece of literature as well as what this value would "look like" in different types of situations.

Invite students in one grade level to interview students in another grade level. Encourage students develop interview questions about experiences that relate to the Seven Sacred Teachings.

Have students partner up with students from another level to co-create an illustrated story about a particular value from the Seven Sacred Teachings.

Ideas for developing school-wide themes

Develop a schedule of monthly themes for a single school year, or sets of core values that are highlighted over a three- or four-year cycle.

Break down a core value into four related values that can be introduced weekly to support and build on an overall monthly theme. For example, an overarching monthly theme on kindness might incorporate a weekly focus on related values such as helpfulness, patience, thankfulness and tolerance.

Develop an annual theme, centered on the Seven Sacred Teachings, such as the Year of the Beaver or the Year of Courage. Reinforce all values inherent in the Seven Sacred Teachings, but focus on the value of the year.

Focusing on desired student behaviours

Identify the behaviours and choices that might be associated with each of the Seven Teachings.

Find examples of behaviours and actions that support the Seven Sacred Teachings in stories about the school or the community.

Share and celebrate positive behaviours and actions and provide opportunities for students to look at the rippling effects that positive behaviours can have on self and others.

Deepen understanding of the Seven Sacred Teachings by exploring specific behaviours that demonstrate and support the relevant core value. For example, enhance students' understanding of respect by discussing and practicing behaviours, such as using respectful language, demonstrating kindness, supporting others, inviting others to contribute and showing appreciation.

Hold class meetings to share and explore ways that values and associated behaviours can be exemplified in the classroom and the school. Use the class meetings to tackle dilemmas or challenges that can be resolved with positive behaviours, modeled on the Seven Sacred Teachings.

Invite students to maintain a journal; a space for reflection on their personal values, behaviours and actions. Provide reflection questions that focus on the link between core values and students' behaviours or actions.

Reward or recognize students who exemplify desired behaviours.

Ideas for teaching

Focus on, discuss and explore the meanings and experiences reflected in each of the Seven Sacred Teachings.

Plan to integrate the Seven Sacred Teachings into a variety of teaching and learning activities.

Encourage students to reflect on personal meanings and connections inherent within each of the Seven Teachings.

Encourage students to transfer the Seven Sacred Teachings to their learning experiences across different subject areas.

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Seven Grandfather Teachings First Nations Métis Inuit Student Education Resources Alberta Educators

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Link the Seven Sacred Teachings to "big ideas" of character and citizenship education, such as character, community, cooperation, courage, fairness, friendship, honour, respect, interdependence, justice, loyalty, commitment, responsibility, sharing and love. Provide a space in the school or classroom that highlights "Everyday Teachings" and celebrates everyday actions and stories that students experience or observe in the school and community.

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First Nations Child and Family Caring Society

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Using Shannen's Dream in the Classroom (Grades 3-6) - 5 minutes

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Reconciliation Activities for Children. copy

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Treaty 7 Land Acknowledgment | Indigenous Services | Calgary Public Library

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Digital Story classroom learning resources have been developed to use in classrooms; each story is accompanied by a digital story, transcript, print and digital teaching resources. Our goal is to honour Métis culture and the authentic voices and stories of the Métis people, while also introducing teachers to community-created and authentic Métis resources.

Rupertsland AR APP Tools

Classroom Learning Tools

Rupertsland Centre for Teaching & Learning (RCTL) has developed learning tools for you to use as immediate implements in your classroom. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are unsure as how to best utilize these resources: education@rupertsland.org. Virtual Bookshelf Links: Adult Books Chapter Books Colouring Books DVD's and Music CD's Graphic Novels Picture Books Plays Poetry Books Research and Reference Series

Lesson Plans

We have developed engaging lesson plans based on our Five Foundational Knowledge Themes:

These lesson plans are designed to support and build Alberta educator's competencies to meet the new Teaching Quality Standard. Educators have the opportunity to build their foundational knowledge while delivering Métis content through lessons that reflect their best practices. Click the button below to access our K-12 lesson plans. Please note, additional lesson plans will be uploaded periodically so please keep visiting to check out new ones! If there is something you are looking for that is not here yet, please contact: education@rupertsland.org

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Contacts

We are here to support you. Please email us at education@rupertsland.org for more information. We can also put you in touch with reliable, experienced Métis community resource people to support you with culturally appropriate in-class and/or school presentations.

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Digital Story classroom learning resources have been developed to use in classrooms; each story is accompanied by a digital story, transcript, print and digital teaching resources. Our goal is to honour Métis culture and the authentic voices and stories of the Métis people, while also introducing teachers to community-created and authentic Métis resources.

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First Nations Métis and Inuit Archives - Alberta Regional Professional Development Resources

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