How the First Nations Live in Harmony with Nature

The class read the book, Salmon Boy. This legend teaches how every season produces different foods and how each season is suited to different activities.  The students have taken notes from the book and then shared what they learned through a Spark Video presentation. 

Please watch some of the videos and leave some comments in the Google form connected with each video.

Group 1: Jack, Lotus and Ben

Group 2: Elise, Amme and Evan

Group 3: Lauren, Caitlin and Ben

Group 4: Meghan, Mahammat and Roenz

Group 5: Oceania, Arthur and Casey

Group 6: Ryleigh and Brinley

Learning More About Dugout Canoes

In addition to reading about dugout canoes students were given the opportunity to watch a few videos about dugout canoes.

A few videos came 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.

Canoe Making on the Northwest Coast

In our library class we read Jason's New Dugout Canoe. It is a story that describes how some Northwest Coast indigenous peoples make canoes.

After reviewing all the main points of the book, students were given three scripts based on the contents of this book.   They worked in groups using Chromebooks and created the following summary videos.

Video 1: Background Information About Northwest Coast Canoes

Video 2: How to Get Wood for a Dugout Canoe

Video 3: How to Make a Dugout Canoe

Video 1: Background Information About Northwest Coast Canoes

Video 2: How to Get Wood for a Dugout Canoe

Video 3: How to Make a Dugout Canoe

Inuit Fishing

This is our class summary of a story of a modern Inuit family going ice fishing.

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?

This is our first attempt at making a summary of what we learned using a program called Adobe Spark Video.