First Peoples Worldviews (TouchChat)

About this Resource

These vocabulary pages are intended to support students with communication difficulties participate in lessons about First Peoples worldviews. Curriculum connections and competencies listed below are only suggested.  The resource does not preclude students continuing to build their expertise with Core language on their AAC device. Page sets may need to be customized so that they are geared to the student’s specific goals for comprehension and vocabulary. 

Topics: English Language Arts, First Peoples, Identity, Medicine Wheel

Grades: Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox – K-3, All Creation Represented: 3-8

Curriculum Connections

Big Ideas: 
-Exploring text and story helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and the world. 
-Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking. 
-Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story. 
-Learning requires exploration of one’s identity. 

Curricular Competencies:  I can…
-Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view.
-Construct meaning personal connections between self, text, and world. 
-Describe/express my individual characteristics and strengths.

Created by: Lorena Duran and Jessy To