Content Type: Culminating Activity

After communicating with local Indigenous and non-Indigenous leadership, students propose a plan for how to deal with a local climate change issue. Students are provided with different options for how they will demonstrate their understanding.

Students pick an invasive species to research and report on. Research must touch on the impact the species has on Indigenous land-based practices and how management practices are informed by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing.

Students take on the role of different people/animals affected by a water issue and have a town hall meeting to discuss its impacts.

A culminating activity for students to research a current Canadian environmental issue and design a social justice campaign for their school.

Students learn about the two-row wampum and how it can be used as a metaphor for using Indigenous land-based knowledge and Western science together. Students design wampum inspired beadwork to consolidate their learning.

Students explore pollinator gardens and how they can give back to them.

Students will explore and share the importance of Indigenous leadership in protecting biodiversity.

Taking inspiration from Ra’nikonhrí:io Lazare and Katsenhaién:ton Lazare, students will create their own videos that capture our relationships with a specific plant. Duration: Over multiple work periods