Turtle Island Conservation of the Toronto Zoois pleased to share aNEW FREE ONLINEeducational resource!
The Aboriginal Resource Curriculum-based Educational Bundle
Aanii//Boozhoo, She:kon and Hello!
Welcome to Turtle Island Conservation’s Ontario Curriculum- based Educational Bundle!
Turtle Island Conservation (TIC) is a conservation programme that utilizes a First Nations cultural lens in the commitment to preserve water, and the biodiversity ofwetlands creatures that inhabit these sacred spaces and places. In honouring the Traditional Teachings of First Nation ancestors TIC has partnered with First Nation communities who still inhabit their traditional territories around the Great Lakes of Ontario to encourage environmental stewardship, awareness and action.
Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Traditional Knowledge, reflected through worldviews, beliefs, and stories that speak to the fundamental principle of ensuring sustainable relationships with the land has shaped the multi-layered components of this Educational Bundle. Written for grades 4-6 and easily adaptable to primary, intermediate & secondary grades, each component of this bundle can be used individually or as a complete unit. All components can be downloaded FREE from the TIC website under the resources link at:
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- Free teacher support & training
- Free Curriculum resource download
- Links provided for authentic voice web-based sites
- Free classroom visits by Turtle Island Programme Coordinator
- effective replacement of non-cultural lensed curriculum resources currently in use
- Free access to online google-based cultural mapping programme
- Free certification for all participants
- Free 5 x 6 ft perpetual calendar for all First Nation Schools
Ontario Curriculum Correlations:
- Supports teachers with the integration of Aboriginal culture, history, language and perspectives in the classroom - a goal of the Ontario government’s Ontario First Nation, Metís, and Inuit Education Policy Framework.
- Meets Ontario Curriculum expectations in the arts, native languages, science and technology, health and physical education, mathematics, social studies and language curriculum.
- Meets the Ontario government's education commitment to environmental education as defined in Shaping Our Schools, Shaping Our Future.
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For further information please contact:
Kim Wheatley, Programme Coordinator, Turtle Island Conservation - Toronto Zoo, 361A Old Finch Avenue, Toronto, ON,M1B 5K7 Ph. 416-393-6362
Miigwech/Nia:wen Kowa/Thank you!
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