Middle School Earth Sciences Cultural Activities
The Orca Whale - Cultural Significance and Drawing Activity
By West Coast Indigenous Teacher
Learn all about the ORCA WHALE (killer whale) with this 3-page handout and art activity! Whale pods, lifecycle, Indigenous significance, and more! Complete a orca directed drawing activity.
Page 1: Lesson plan
Page 2: Handout 1
Page 3: Handout 2
Page 4: Indigenous significance of the orca whale
Page 5: 10 step directed drawing activity
Page 6: Bonus activity: colouring page
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Natural Disasters Activities to Learn About the Environment for Earth Day
By A World to Explore Store - A Heritage Month Depot
Do you want to motivate your students to learn about the environment? Do you struggle to find engaging activities on natural disasters? Do you want students to learn about volcanoes, earthquakes, solar flares, tsunamis, floods, lightning, and more? Then download this Natural Disasters Activities to Learn About the Environment resource!
Students will enjoy answering multiple-choice questions with these three unique trivia games for small groups or the whole class. Great for an attention-getter, brain break, engaging opener, or built into your lesson plans!
➟A handout of questions is included to use as quiet seat work!
➟This resource includes:
- 50+ unique trivia questions
- A handout of the questions (for quiet seat work)
- Instructions for 3 different games.
- Answer Key
- Terms of Use
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Salmon Life Cycle, First Nations Culture - Indigenous Education
By West Coast Indigenous Teacher
This 7 page salmon lesson includes the salmon life cycle, ocean conservation and salmon in First Nations culture. Salmon life cycle diagram and activity included. 3 salmon activities within this salmon life cycle and salmon lesson.
Page 1: Lesson plan
Page 2: The Deep Connection to Salmon (handout)
Page 3: The Importance of Salmon (handout)
Page 4: Traditional Fishing Techniques (handout)
Page 5: The Arrival of the Europeans, Salmon Today (handout)
Page 6: Indigenous Conservation, Salmon Interconnectedness (handout)
Page 7: Salmon Life Cycle (handout)
Page 8: Salmon Life Cycle diagram (handout)
Page 9: Salmon Life Cycle (activity)
Page 10: Salmon Crossword Puzzle
Page 11: Salmon Crossword Puzzle - answer key)
Page 12: Salmon Creative Writing activity
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Bundle Natural Disasters Environmental Activities and a Research WebQuest
By A World to Explore Store - A Heritage Month Depot
Do you need an engaging current event activity about the environment? Do you want to motivate your students to learn? Then download this Bundle Natural Disasters Environmental Activities and a Research WebQuest! Your students will learn about volcanoes, hurricanes, solar flares, hail, storms, lightning, floods, and a variety of other naturally occurring events.
WEBQUEST
When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more with this high-quality, no-prep resource!
3 TRIVIA GAMES
Students will enjoy answering multiple-choice questions with these three unique trivia games for small groups or the whole class. Students will learn about the causes, facts, and figures of various natural disasters. Great for an attention-getter, brain break, engaging opener, or built into your lesson plans!
➟ A handout of questions is included to use as quiet seat work!
This resource includes:
- Multi-part question WebQuest/scavenger hunt The URLs provided in this WebQuest are not 'live.' They are kept very simple so that students can easily type the URLs in the search bar to hunt for their answers). Text boxes are all set, and ready to go! Live links are provided on the last page of the resource
- 40 unique trivia questions
- HANDOUT of the questions (for quiet seat work)
- Instructions & Answer Key
- Website evaluation form
- Terms of Use
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Indigenous Hunting and Fishing Traditions in Canada - Indigenous Education
By West Coast Indigenous Teacher
Discover Canada's Indigenous hunting and fishing traditions with this social studies resource. Learn about 10 animals and their habitats and how they were hunted for and fished for. Students will gain insight into ecology and Indigenous culture.
Page 1-2: Lesson Plan
Page 3: Indigenous Hunting and Fishing handout
Page 4: Importance of Hunting and Fishing to Indigenous peoples
Page 5-9: Animal cards (caribou, bison, moose, seal, salmon, trout, beaver, duck, rabbit, ptarmigan)
Page 10: Mapping activity
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7 Sacred Teachings Animal BUNDLE - Indigenous Culture, Life Cycles, Lessons
By West Coast Indigenous Teacher
This bundle expands on the 7 Sacred Teachings, students dive in and learn ALL about the animals that Indigenous communities traditionally admire and love, The 7 Sacred animals + a bonus animal (the orca!) Students will discover the cultural significance behind each animal & creature & complete multiple activities. Looking for an intro to the teachings? I have lessons for both primary lessons and anintermediate lesson, both introduce the 7 Sacred Teachings.
The Bear:
Learn all about black bears, their lifecycle, diet, habitat, bear safety and the Indigenous importance. Students will complete two fun activities; a maze and a colouring page.
The Eagle:
Learn all about the bald eagle, an Indigenous icon. This lesson will cover lifecycle, bald eagle appearance, diet, eagle feathers and a Indigenous art colouring sheet.
The Wolf:
Learn about the wolves that live in Canada! Wolf packs, lifecycle, their diet, wolf populations, the types of wolves who reside in Canada and the Indigenous significance to the wolf.
Indigenous Story of Sasquatch:
Learn about the Indigenous legend of Sasquatch / Bigfoot, understand its cultural significance, and engage in a creative activity to imagine and depict their own version of Sasquatch.
The Buffalo:
Learn about the buffalo (and bison), the cultural significance, conservation efforts, appearance, diet, and much more. Students will complete an activity on respect.
The Beaver:
Learn all about beavers, their dams, diet, appearance, life cycle, building skills and about the Indigenous meaning (wisdom)
The Turtle:
Learn about freshwater turtles, species found in Canada, diet, turtle conservation, turtle habitat and the Indigenous significance of the turtle.
The Orca Whale: (Bonus - not part of the 7 Sacred Teachings)
Learn all about the orca whale (killer whale) with this 3-page handout and art activity! Whale pods, lifecycle, Indigenous significance, and more! Complete a orca directed drawing activity.
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Indigenous Education Massive Growing Bundle
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