Medicine Wheel
Teacher Examples
The examples in this power point are from NESD teachers
Much gratitude for creating with your students and sharing
Let’s see how teachers are using
the medicine wheel in the classroom:
For too long, First Nation teachings were not invited to have a place in European
education. The time has come where we can see how balanced an educational
delivery can be with the understanding of the medicine wheel. It is a way to teach
global thinking!
After a Medicine Wheel teachings workshop the teachers then created
their own Medicine Wheels for use in their classrooms.
Science - Seasons
Science – Grade 2 Medicine Wheel booklet
Health – Traditional Medicine
Arborfield – grade 6 students
designed personal balance
wheels in the being of their:
Physical
Spiritual
Emotional
Mental
Science – The understanding of Medicine from First Nation oral tradition
Created by Karen Holowka – Carrot River High School
Science – After learning about Traditional Medicine plants the students did their own research
The four Sacred Plants by TES Grade 3
Science – Grade 3 TES
The four Sacred plants:
Tobacco / Kinikinick
Sage
Sweatgrass
Cedar
Animals
Legged Ones
Fish
Insects
Crawlers
Swimmers
Birds
Winged Ones
Science – Grade Kind – Gr. 3 –
hands on activity –
grouping the creatures in their quadrant
Hudson Bay Kindergarten students learned about the creatures of the Medicine Wheel
Art
Wagner students created
their names using the four
colors of the medicine wheel
By Kevin Steine
Leadership 10 class – Research study of First Nation leaders
FNMI Artist Study by LP Millar students – teacher Ren Lukoni
Porcupine Plain ELA students created their own legends
ELA 90 – Leanne Gruending
PhysEd – This Medicine Wheel remains in the gymnasium area to remind the students of
their responsibility for physical balance. Created by Brenda Bessette and Rodney White
Medicine Wheel Collage
TMSS – use this Medicine Wheel
as a school wide behavior matrix –
formatted by Stephanie Pipke-Painchaud