Aba Wathtech Ina Makoche: It is a Good Day, Mother Earth
by Sheri Shotclose
Description:
Publisher's description (Calgary Library, Durville and UpRoute Books, 2019): This tale is about a young girl greeting the day and acknowledging her Stoney Nakoda family and the beautiful natural world in which she lives.
Watch a video of the author reading their book in both languages.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: grades K- 6
Keywords: morning, rituals, prayer, Treaty 7, Stoney Nakoda, traditional knowledge, culture, language revitalization
Year of publication: 2019
Publisher information: Calgary Library, Durville and UpRoute Books
Teaching and Learning Ideas
Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. We offer our sincere thanks to the dozens of new teachers who gifted us with these creative ideas!
Aba Wathtech Ina Makoche: It is a Good Day, Mother Earth Grade 5 Lesson Plan
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