Research Project (Primary)

How could theses resources be used in a classroom?

To enhance this learning experience, it is important to collaborate with the Indigenous advocates at your school. This will allow the students to gain a more authentic and profound understanding of the resources available. In my own classroom, I have utilized these resources by taking my students to the Kelowna Heritage Museum, where they can visually explore the winter homes, tools, and sustainable hunting practices of the Syilx Okanagan Peoples in caring for the land around them. Following this experience, the children could then select a research topic from the available options to delve deeper into. They were then given an opportunity to present their findings to the class in a circle, teaching us all about the knowledge they had gained from their chosen topic. 

Though this content and these resources can assist in the integration of Indigenous knowledge into the classroom, it is important to seek out and build relationships with the Indigenous advocates in each school if possible, or Indigenous community members, knowledge keepers, or educators. We must remember that learning and educating on Indigenous perspectives should be done with and from local Indigenous community members.