Grade 5 Language: Environmental Sustainability

Learning Activity 1

Why climate change in the Arctic affects us all, Global News, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t3ERx71ANA, Published 29/12/2019, Accessed 05/09/2024. Excerpt from The West Block S9E17.

Climate Impacts to Arctic Coasts, Benjamin Jones/U.S. Geological Survey, Government of the United States of America, URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgeologicalsurvey/32682616471/in/photostream/, Published 09/02/2017, Accessed 06/09/2024.

Learning Activity 2

The figures of Thunderbird Woman and a water-protecting woman, Christi Belcourt/Isaac Murdoch, URL: https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/christi-belcourt-and-isaac-murdoch-create-mural-for-macewans-kihew-waciston-indigenous-centre/, Published 2018/2019, Accessed 06/09/2024.

Artists Christi Belcourt, left, and Isaac Murdoch, Ed Kaiser, Edmonton Journal/Postmedia Network Inc, URL: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/artists-create-mural-focused-on-water-protection-for-macewan-indigenous-centre, Published 30/10/2018, Accessed 06/09/2024.

The Mad Crab of Kochi, Elena Odareeva/iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images

Skyscraper or The Bruges Whale - whale rising up from the Canal installation, f9photos/iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images

Christi Belcourt, Hyungchoel Park, New Sun Conference, URL: https://carleton.ca/trickstershift/new-sun-conference/2010-photos-9th-annual-new-sun-conference-on-aboriginal-arts-something-else-again/, Published 27/02/2010, Accessed 09/09/2024.

Christi Belcourt, quoted in "The painter raising awareness of our connection with nature," Alison Tedford Seaweed, Rewilding Magazine, URL: https://www.rewildingmag.com/christi-belcourt-essential-nature-art/, Published 01/11/2022, Accessed 10/09/2024.

Bomgiizhik (Isaac Murdoch), Unknown Photographer, URL: https://isaacmurdoch.com/biography/, Published undefined, Accessed 09/09/2024.

Isaac Murdoch, quoted in "Ojibwe storyteller Isaac Murdoch says language is the foundation of nationhood," Dennis Ward/Face to Face, APTN News, URL: https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/ojibwe-storyteller-isaac-murdoch-says-language-is-the-foundation-of-nationhood/, Published 18/04/2023, Accessed 20/11/2024.

New Beginnings, Christi Belcourt/Isaac Murdoch, URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/uprising-christi-belcourt-1.4728327, Published 2014, Accessed 10/09/2024. Photograph of artwork by Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

Offerings and Prayers for Genebek Ziibiing, Christi Belcourt, URL: https://bioneers.org/interview-christi-belcourt-zmbz1910/, Published 2014, Accessed 10/09/2024.

For the Love of Water, Isaac Murdoch, URL: https://isaacmurdoch.com/product/for-the-love-of-water/, Published undefined, Accessed 10/09/2024.

Learning Activity 3

Last Fish First Boat, Jenn Thornhill Verma (writer) / Kat Frick Miller (artist), Canadian Geographic/McIntyre Media, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHGiOXUXoU, Published 17/02/2021, Accessed 10/09/2024.

Visitors Enjoy The Wildlife At The Farne Islands, Dan Kitwood / Staff/Getty Images News/Getty Images

Queenslanders Adjust To Life Under Tough New Coronavirus Measures, Lisa Maree Williams / Stringer/Getty Images News/Getty Images

Duncan's Way, Ian Wallace, Groundwood Books, Published in 2000.

Learning Activity 4

Ariana Roundpoint, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Whose.land, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwADXv7Zy90, Published 08/12/2017, Accessed 10/09/2024. Granted under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Map of Historic and Current Haudenosaunee Territory, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, URL: http://honorthe.wwwmi3-ss62.a2hosted.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Historical-and-Current-Haudenosaunee-Territory.jpg, Published undefined, Accessed 04/06/2024. Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign.

First Nations and Treaties, Ministry of Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation, Queen's Printer for Ontario, URL: https://files.ontario.ca/treaties_map_english.pdf, Published 2017, Accessed 10/09/2024. © King's Printer for Ontario, 2017. This map is a reproduction of the version available at the given URL.

Treaty Words cover page, Aimée Craft, Annick Press Ltd, Published C. 01/03/2021, Accessed 20/01/2025. Written by: Aimée Craft. Illustrated by: Luke Swinson.

Excerpt from "Treaty Words Author Aimée Craft on Why She Wants Her Young Readers to Know They are 'Part of Something Bigger Than Them'", Open Book, URL: https://open-book.ca/News/Treaty-Words-Author-Aimee-Craft-on-Why-She-Wants-Her-Young-Readers-to-Know-They-are-Part-of-Something-Bigger-Than-Them, Published 10/02/2021, Accessed 11/12/2024.

Learning Activity 5

Making Canadian Music More Diverse. Copyright © The Agenda with Steve Paikin/The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO). All rights reserved.

Sandra and Kathy: why the land is important, First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Association of Ontario (FNMIEAO), URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKIrEb0rXhY, Published undefined, Accessed 10/09/2024.

Have You Heard?, Celinda J. Rice, Published in Tea and Bannock Stories: First Nations Community of Poetic Voices, Vancouver: Simon Fraser University, First Nations Studies, 2007, page 85.

TRIPPING – The French River, Good Earth Productions Inc, URL: https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/tripping-the-french-river, Published undefined, Accessed 10/09/2024.

Learning Activity 6

Can you help the Earth by eating your leftovers? Kids say yes, CBC Kids News, CBC/Radio-Canada, URL: https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/can-you-help-the-earth-by-eating-your-leftovers-kids-and-pro-chef-say-yes, Published 29/05/2023, Accessed 10/09/2024.

Green Squad – Vikram, Apartment 11 Productions Inc, URL: https://www.tvokids.com/school-age/green-squad/videos/vikram, Published 10/10/2023, Accessed 11/09/2024.

Green Squad – Malik, Apartment 11 Productions Inc, URL: https://www.tvokids.com/school-age/green-squad/videos/malik, Published 17/10/2023, Accessed 11/09/2024.