Treaty Education Lesson Plan Template
K – 12 Goals For Treaty Education:
Kindergarten:
Grade One:
Grade Two:
Grade Three:
Grade Four:
Grade Five:
Grade Six:
Grade Seven:
Grade Eight:
Grade Nine:
Grade Ten:
Grade Eleven:
Grade Twelve:
Getting to Know My Community
Learning That We Are All Treaty People
Creating a Strong Foundation Through Treaties
Exploring Challenges and Opportunities in Treaty Making
Assessing the Journey in Honouring Treaties
Understanding the Impacts of Unfulfilled Treaties
Moving Towards Fulfillment of Treaties
Understanding Treaties in a Contemporary Context
Exploring Treaty Impacts and Alternatives
Understanding Treaties from Around the World
Examining the Canadian Context for Treaties
Assessing Treaty Making from a Global Perspective
Applying Treaty Understandings to One’s Life
This lesson is for Grade: __11___
Estimated Time for Instruction/Learning: ___2 x 60 Minutes
Treaty Education Learning Outcome:
Code: __SI11
Descriptor:
Create a new symbol in Treaty Making that captures the spirit of renewal.
Treaty Education Learning Indicator(s) for this Outcome:
Review the symbols used in the process of Treaty and evaluate the merits of an additional
act of symbolism (e.g. treaty medals, Chif Pasqua’s pictograph, commemorative coin or
stamp)
- Explore how technology may be used to strengthen the creation of symbols related to
Treaty
Key Planning Question: What learning experiences, strategies and content will engage students,
causing them to ask questions relevant to this learning outcome?
Student Assessment:
(What do I need to find out about regarding students’ prior knowledge, interests or mode of learning?)
-We need to determine what the students understand about the nature of symbols and what
makes them significant.
-We need to determine what symbols the students can identify that relate to the Treaty process
as well as to see if the students understand the significance of symbols to the First Nations
people.
-We need to identify what the students understand about the Treaty process itself from the
negotiations to the signing of the Treaties.
Motivational Set/Setting the Context:
- Show the students a series of pictures of significant objects and people then have the students
try to identify as many of the pictures/items through a class competition.
Procedures/Instructional Strategies/Learning Experiences/Differentiated
Instruction/Closure/Student Assessment/Evaluation:
1. Divide the class into teams of about 4 members per team.
2. Show the students a series of pictures of significant objects/people and have the teams try
to identify as many of the pictures/items as possible by direct competition in a Family Feud
format where points are awarded as follows: 1 point for identifying the symbol/picture and 2
points for each explanation of what the symbol means.
3. The students will research the symbols which they have missed in the remainder of the
period.
4. To start period 2 of the lesson the students will be shown 3-5 logos/symbols that represent
the same product/team such as the Pepsi symbols or a sports team’s series of jerseys. The
students will be asked what the product/team is that is represented by the images and then
asked why they think the logos have gone through changes.
5. Solicit further examples from the students and have the students explain why they think that
their examples show a type of renewal in that product.
6. To bring the focus onto treaties the following questions will be asked of the students:
a. If treaties are considered an eternal covenant is there a need to renew the
relationship within our Treaties?
b. With the need for renewal is there then a need for renewed symbols?
7. The students are then to develop what they think would be an appropriate symbol for the
renewed relationship that is the focus of #6a above.
Resources:
-Smartboard if class is so equipped
-series of pictures collected from the internet
-internet and Treaty instructional materials
Student Reflection:
(Students reflect on their learning, and on any skills that need improvement)
Teacher Reflection:
(Teacher reflects on What worked? What didn’t? What needs changing/revision?)
This lesson was created by Chad Hofmann (Meunster School), Kelly Schermann (Lake Lenore School) and Larry Mikulcik (William Derby
School, Strasbourg)