- 1 – Showing appreciation is very important in the Anishnaabe and Iroquoian cultures. You can choose to make a JING (www.screencast.com) appreciation video that explains what they learned while completing the various activities. They will be asked to use details from activities a – e (show paintings drawn, rock totems that were designed, the most important teachings from the Medicine Wheel, etc.)
2 – Make a digital scrapbook. Similar to summative task 1, but instead, students can go out into nature and collect plant medicines, animal representations, beads, feathers, talking sticks or clams, etc. and take photographs to be scanned to a blog. Students can also research magazines, newspapers, web sites, regarding First Nations that live nearby. This task would synthesize new knowledge using already learned concepts.
3 – Creative writing Blog post answering the following questions; If you were an animal or plant, what would you be and why?; If you were one of the 4 elements (Fire, Earth, Water, Air), which would you be and why?; Think about the 4 stages of life (baby, child, adult, elder). Which would you prefer to be in and why?.
4 – Finally, you could choose to adopt a local “creature” such as a snake, butterfly, frog, raccoon, hawk, etc. They would have to describe it, explain its historical significance, cultural uses, legends associated with it, tracks, characteristics, and so on, in the context of First Nations relationships.