DATE: February 11, 2015
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TIME
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ACTIVITY
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EQUIPMENT NEEDED
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BADGE REQUIRMENTS MET
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3:45
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Gathering Activity:
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4:00
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Opening Ceremony
- Flag Ceremony
- Opening Prayer:
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- Grand Howl
-Attendance:
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4:05
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GAME:
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4:15
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4:20
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THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal Inventions
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• Matching Game
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Aboriginal Awareness #1
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4:40
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GAME:
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5:00
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THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal
contributions to Canada
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Aboriginal Awareness #6
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5:10
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BADGEWORK: Aboriginal
words we use today
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Aboriginal Awareness #2
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5:15
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SPIRITUAL FELLOWSHIP
-Spiritual Thought:
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5:20
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Closing Ceremony
-Cub Promise (review line
2)
-Closing Prayer
- Flag Lowering Ceremony
-Badge worksheets or other
information
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5:30
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Goodnight and Good hunting
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THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal Inventions
MATCHING GAME: Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions
Print the matching game from the following link: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud/foundation_gr2/blms/2-2-1c.pdf
THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal Contributions
Fur Traders
Shortly after Europeans began sailing to Canada to explore
and to fish, they found out that Canada was a land with many fur-bearing
animals. When explorers and fishers
began trading with Aboriginal Peoples for fresh food, they learned that the Aboriginal
Peoples had furs from the animals they hunted.
The fur trade in Canada began because many Europeans wanted these
furs. Both the French and the English
used furs, especially beaver fur, to make hats and to trim other clothing. They became partners in the fur trade with
the Aboriginal Peoples.
The Aboriginal Peoples of eastern Canada were the first to
meet explorers and traders from Europe.
The explorers returned to Europe with stories about the new people and
lands they had seen. They brought back
new food that Europeans had never eaten before.
Corn, beans, squash, and tobacco were plants from North America. The Aboriginal Peoples acted as guides for
the explorers. They taught the Europeans
what they knew about the land. They
showed them how to use canoes, moccasins, snowshoes, and toboggans.
Traders came to get furs from the new lands. They built trading posts where Aboriginal
Peoples could bring their furs. When the
fur trade began, it fit well into Aboriginal ways of life. The Aboriginal Peoples had always hunted and
traded for what they needed. The fur
trade brought them metal tools and weapons that replaced those of stone and
bone. Iron cooking pots and copper
kettles replaced those made of clay, skin, bark, or wood. Guns replaced bows and arrows. Hunting for food became quicker and easier.
Aboriginal women played an important role in the fur
trade. Without their skills and hard
work, the fur trade would not have been possible. Many of the fur traders married Aboriginal
women. These women did a lot of the work
at the posts. Aboriginal women often went on fur-trading trips with their
husbands. Many acted as guides. They worked with the men to paddle the canoes
and carried heavy loads across portages.
They set up camp when they stopped, and prepared meals. Aboriginal women
had many skills important to the fur traders.
They prepared food such as pemmican.
Pemmican is light to carry and keeps a long time without spoiling. Aboriginal women also knew how to make medicines
from plants. Women made or helped make many items of value. They made blankets and clothing, including
moccasins. They helped make
snowshoes. The men made the frames of
snowshoes and the women made the webbing for them. They gathered and split spruce roots used to
make birch bark canoes. They also
collected spruce gum, which was used to make the canoes waterproof. Sometimes
Aboriginal women trapped smaller animals for meat and fur. The women were skilled at cleaning and
preparing pelts and hides. The fur traders learned many skills from their
Aboriginal wives. They learned the
languages and customs of their wives’ people.
If a woman from an Aboriginal group married a trader, she often acted as
an interpreter and peacemaker among her people and the traders. The women helped their husbands communicate
with Aboriginal Peoples. This improved
their trading relationships.
BADGEWORK: Aboriginal Words
Athabasca River, Lake Athabasca, Athabasca Falls,
Mount Athabasca, Athabasca:
"Where there are reeds" in Cree
Kananaskis
Medicine Hat:
Translation of the Blackfoot word saamis, meaning "headdress of a medicine
man".
Lake Minnewanka: ""Water of the Spirits" in Sioux (Nakoda/Stoney
language)
Nikanassin Range: "First range" in Cree
Okotoks:
"Big Rock" in Blackfoot
Ponoka:
"Black Elk" in Cree
Wabasca:
from wapuskau, "grassy narrows" in Cree language
Wetaskiwin:
"Place of peace" or "hill of peace" in Cree
Wapiti River:
from the Cree word for "elk", waapiti (literally "white
rump").
Waputik Range:
Waputik means "white goat" in Stoney
