Hurting First Nations Cultures

As as class we read the following three stories. Students have taken what they believe are the main events and important message of these stories and created videos that share what they have learned.

Group 1 Ben Hansen and Colin

Group 2 Sydney Hanna and Gwenn

Group 3 Rylea and Elizabeth

Group 4 Aricin, Jakob and Zach

Group 5 Nate, Luke, Damon and Aidan

Group 6 Cooper, Jason and Alex

Group 7 Anthony and Jordan

Group 8 Danica and Olivia

Our Video Retelling of How to Make a Dugout Canoe

Students were read the story, Jason's Dugout Canoe.  From this story we made notes and made 3 class scripts about dugout canoes and the canoe making process.  Below are their videos.

#1 Northwest Coast Canoes

by Sydney, Aricin and Nate

#2 Getting Wood for the Canoe

by Luke, Aidan and Jason

#3 Making a Canoe

by Hansen and Hannah

#1 Northwest Coast Canoes 

by Elizabeth, Gwenn and Alex

#2 Getting Wood for a Canoe

by Anthony, Jordan and Ronan

#3 Making a Canoe

Olivia, Zach and Damon

#2 Getting Wood for the Canoe

by Colin, Danica and Rylea

 

#3 Making a Canoe

by Cooper Jacob and Ben

More Learning About Dugout Canoes

In class students watched a few videos about dugout canoes.

A few videos come from the Aboriginal Tourism BC Website:

Dugout Canoes: A Master Carver
Dugout Canoes: A Family Affair

There is also this time lapse video of making a dug canoe. This example is not for a typical Northwest Coast Canoe made by the indigenous people of the area. It does however give a good idea of how big a task is to make a dugout canoe.

Northwest Coast Dugout Canoes

Today in library we read a story about the indigenous people on the Northwest Coast that build canoes. We took some notes during the story about the canoe making process. Here is what we recorded together on the Smart board.

Reflecting on Inuit Values

 Back in the classroom students reflected on what they have learned from our first two First Nations stories.  This is what was recorded on the classroom Smart-board. Click on the image if you need it to be larger to read clearly.

Our Video about Ice Fishing

Inuit Fishing

Like our last story, this is a modern story about how the Inuit fish. They use a combination of traditional skills and knowledge along with modern tools and vehicles.

We noticed that an important value among the first nations is sharing with others. In this story Grandma instructs her two grandchildren to share their catch with people in the village who can no longer get out on the frozen lakes to fish.

We are working on a video which will explain all the skills needed to ice fish safely.

Inuit Hunting

We read and discussed our first story during our library learning commons time. From each story we read we are trying to learn:

• Why are stories important to indigenous people?
• Why do Elders play an important part in the lives of First Peoples?

• What values were significant for local First Peoples?

After reading the story we experimented with retelling some of what we learned from the story with a program called Adobe Spark Video.  This is what we were able to come up with on our first try. We hope to get better as time goes on.

What we did before we started this project

We thought our readers might be interested in a project we worked on just before reading about the First Peoples of Canada. All of our posts after this one will only be about our reading about the First Peoples of Canada project.

We created a video to promote the nonfiction section of the library.  The students chose books that they felt most people in their class would like and that was at their reading level. Students videoed each other using iPads and all the videos were combined using a program called Adobe Spark Video. We hope to use this video tool in our Reading About the First Peoples project. We hope that this video advertisement about the Nonfiction section of our library will encourage other students to explore the nonfiction section in our library.





As a class we brainstormed what we did well and what we could do better next time. This is what we came up with:

• we used a good variety of books in our video
• we learned a lot about the nonfiction section of the library
• students should make themselves more familiar with their books before making their presentation
• we need to stand closer to those presenting so the sound is better
• we should speak louder and more clearly
• presenters should stay in their spot until the video camera is turned off
• presenters should stand up straight and not move too much during their presentation
• zooming in on a book can be useful
• we need to reduce the background noise while recording by only have presenters talking and spreading our groups out to quieter places in the school
• presenters should make sure they cover all the important points in their presentation (book title, what the book is about, why other students would like it, favorite page in the book,what section of the library the book is in).