STEM at Wap Sigatgyet!

Staff of school district 52 attended a curriculum implementation day workshop at Wap Sigatgyet, focused on STEM and incorporting indigenous perspectives. We were fortunate enough to welcome Nicole Robinson and Archie Bunker to discuss the guardian program from Hartley Bay. Topics of discussion were the connections between orca families and the Ts'msyen clas system, microplastics, and whale identification. Participants were also introduced to resources from Great Bear Sea, and Math in a Cultural Context, which are available at wap.libib.com. 

PRMS Students Weave with Cedar

Aboriginal Role Model Fanny Nelson came to work with grade 6/7 students at PRMS today and taught them how to weave with cedar. The students have been studying patterns in cedar weaving in math and were happy to try a little weaving with cedar themselves.

Cedar weaving practice with paper

Students at PRMS are excited about weaving with real cedar tomorrow. Today they're practicing their weaving technique with paper strips.

Orange shirt day at Roosevelt Elementary with Charlie Carlick/ walk.

CBC Article: Teaching math through cedar weaving, trade beads and oral history

Check out the CBC article about the workshop at the FNESC conference in Vancouver that Tannis Calder and Tina Demings presented in November.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ts-msyen-indigenous-math-curriculum-cedar-weaving-1.4922447

Ab. Ed. Learning harvest early this fall (kwilamaxs ada wooms.)

K’üül, Gup’l, K’wilii song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watfeFXOcno&feature=youtu.be