Demonstrate awareness of humans' reliance on the natural environment to meet needs, and how location affects families in meeting needs and wants.
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Identify sources of food common in students' meals (e.g., plants, mammals, fish, birds, animal products like milk, cheese, and eggs). |
| (b) |
Investigate the process of getting food from source to students' tables. |
| (c) |
Trace the geographic origins of food products consumed by students. |
| (d) |
Explain the contribution of the natural environment to the satisfaction of basic human needs. |
| (e) |
Retell stories that explore the relationship between humans and nature. |
| (f) |
Identify ways in which use of resources to meet needs and wants of individuals affects the natural environment, and recognize individual and group responsibility towards responsible stewardship of the natural environment. |

- The Friendship
- The Handshake and the Pipe
- We Are All Treaty People
Included in the resource is a variety of formats to support resource-based learning. Instructional strategies are explained and differentiating instruction is included to assist teachers with the diversity within the classrooms. The "release of responsibility" model has students demonstrating and applying their knowledge in a variety of ways. A comprehensive approach is used to teach the cues and conventions and they are incorporated into the framework of the lesson plans. There are cross-curricular units that link to science and social studies.
The teacher's guide is detailed and comprehensive with formative and summative assessment tools. Teacher reflection is emphasized.
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Energy in the Environment
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Materials and Objects
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. My World
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. Seasons
- Nelson Literacy 1. Cross-Curricular Kit. The Needs of Living Things
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Energy in Our Lives
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Materials and Objects
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. My World
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. Seasons
- Nelson Literacy 1. Guided Reading Kit. The Needs of Living Things
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Energy in Our Lives
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Materials and Objects
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. My World
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. Seasons
- Nelson Literacy 1. Single Copy Set. The Needs of Living Things
Teachers may consider bringing an Elder into the classroom to discuss our relationships to the land.
This book was selected as a finalist for the 2009 Canadian Children's Book Centre - Best Books for Kids and Teens.
- Circle of Life Set 2. Berry Picking with Nokomis (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Corn Soup (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Frogs for Supper (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Getting Ready for the Feast (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Making Bannock (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. My Drum (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Nokomis and I Go to Town (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Sharing (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. Teacher eSupport DVD
- Circle of Life Set 2. The Gift of Water (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. The Sweat Lodge (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 2. To the Arena (6-pack)
There is one recipe from each country at the end of the book. The students will have fun smelling, touching, tasting and laughing as they try out the recipes.
Included are a table of contents, recipes and a glossary.
Children will realize that we depend upon the people who work together to grow and to share food for our sustenance, while protecting and respecting the land and animals.
- Circle of Life Set 1. At Home in the Bush (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Can You Give Me My Name? (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Four Colours, Four Hands (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Getting Ready for the Powwow (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. I Can Sing (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. In the Light of Grandmother Moon (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. My Bustle (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Teacher eSupport DVD
- Circle of Life Set 1. The Six Clans (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Where are Grandma and Grandpa? (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Where is My Moccasin? (6-pack)
- Circle of Life Set 1. Why Do You Smudge, Mishoomis? (6-pack)
- Askî and Turtle Island
- Askî's Family Scrapbook
- Kon and the Circle of Life
- Nipi and Mother Earth
- Tate and the Flyers
- Under One Sun Grade 1. At Home and at School
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Guided Reading Classroom Set
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Guided Reading Single Copy Set
- Under One Sun Grade 1. I Do Good Things
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Long Ago and Today
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Print Teacher's Resource
- Under One Sun Grade 1. Teacher Resource Set
- Under One Sun Grade 1. We Help Each Other
- Under One Sun Grade 1. What Do You Share?
- Under One Sun Grade 1. What Does Mother Earth Share?
- Grandfather, Tell Us About Wild Rice
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Eagle Feather
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Igloo
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Inukshuk
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Totem Pole
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Our Elders
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Regalia
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Four Sacred Medicines
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Star Blanket
- Grandfather, Tell Us About Sage
- Grandfather, Tell Us About Traditional Tobacco
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Birch Bark Canoe
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Bison
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Sacred Pipe
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Cedar
- Grandmother, Tell Us About Sweetgrass
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 1. Garlic Bulbs Go Off/ More Feathers
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 2. I Got You Covered/ Pets Rock
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 3. Fun with Flags/ How to Train Your Osky
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 4. Magnifying Trouble/ Squirrel Food
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 5. Pizza Mania/ Mrs. Charles' Treasure
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 6. Competing Ideas/ Don't Rain on Mrs. Charles Parade
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 7. Gourmet Cat/ Some Kind of Lake Monster
- Louis Says. Season 4, Episode 8. Giant Painting/ Going Around the Bushes
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Algonquin People of Long Ago
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Inuit People of Long Ago
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Iroquois People of Long Ago
- Grandfather, Tell Us About the Ojibwe People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Haida People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Mi'kmaq People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Métis People of Long Ago
- Grandmother, Tell Us About the Sioux People of Long Ago