Students consider the global climate issue. In this Northwest Passage instructional activity, students examine who has sovereignty of the passage and discuss the importance of the Law of the Seas and its impact on the global climate...

Ninth graders research Aboriginal role models. In this native studies lesson plan, 9th graders select leaders of the First Nations and Metis Nations of the Saskatchewan and research their contributions to society. Students create...

Students explore Inuit culture. For this cultural diversity lesson, students collaborate to learn Inuit games and teach them to their classmates.

Students examine Shamanism and explore the Inuktitut language. For this Inuit culture lesson, students role play and 'interview' a shaman. Students encounter native Inuktitut words and then use a dictionary to find their English meanings.

Fourth graders examine the use of possessives when describing family members. In this ESL family description lesson plan, 4th graders examine the role of family in their native language before looking at pictures of families assigning...

Students investigate Inuit customs. In this cultural traditions lesson, students read about religious customs of the Inuit including Shamanism. Students discuss the role of Shaman and create Inuktitut-English dictionaries with terms...

Students research the art, dance or a game from the Pacific Northwest Coast Aborigines.  In this Canadian Cultures lesson plan, students view a PowerPoint about the Inuits.  Students choose a game , type of artwork or dance to...

Students watch a Nova program examining the earliest in habitants of the Americas. In groups. they take notes on various topics covered in the program. Among the topics covered are: the Clovis people, Solutrean culture, migration...

Middle schoolers use Internet, video and text resources to gather information about the Amundsen/Scott race for the South Pole in 1911-12, dog sledding, and the ethical treatment of animals for science. They set up a debate to determine...

Fourth graders analyze statistics of Native Americans by creating graphs.  In this data analysis activity, 4th graders define different statistical terms and practice finding those statistics from groups of numerical information...

Fifth graders gain an appreciation for the central role that religion and spirituality holds in Native cultures. After researching Totems, 5th graders create their own Totems out of construction paper based on their lives and beliefs.

Twelfth graders discover the plight of Aboriginal people in Canada in trying to gain human rights. In this self-governance lesson, 12th graders participate in talking circles that require them to compare and contrast the visions of Prime...

In this video segment from Nature, learn about the role of dogs in the Inuit culture.

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Inuit. (Note: Content is not the most current.)

With the use of Inuit Art, photograph, and audio accounts (in the languages of the Inuit Peoples), the suffering, culture, and perseverance of Aboriginal settlements in the Canadian North is explored in an in-depth manner.

Test your knowledge of world mythology by playing Mythology Hangman, a Java applet and website that features images, maps, and descriptions for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. It is a great resource to supplement mythology...

Enhance your study of world mythology with these articles from Encyclopedia Mythica. Learn about mythic locations, creature, deities, and phenomena from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

A four page document in PDF format that describes the sacrifices made by Canadian soldiers during the D-Day invasion of World War II and the role the Metis peoples played in the Canadian war effort.