Category: Science

• Making the Shift to Inquiry Based Instruction

    Currently I am re-examining my instructional practice, and trying to understand how I can effectively teach students to nurture a sense of wonder about the Natural world around us. With my current focus, on integrating FNMI strategies into the Science Curriculum, I have decided that Inquiry Based Learning is a strategy worthy of researching […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 1, 2012

  Best Practices, First Nations, Ideas for Learning Strategies, Inquiry Based Learning, Science

  Inquiry Based Learning, Science

• 7 Reasons to Integrate Indigenous Knowledge into Science Curriculum

    According to the ‘Seven Grandfather Teachings’ what we teach our children now, will have an effect for the next 7 generations. What can Educators teach this generation of students right now, that will help our planet and environment for the next seven generations? The Science Curriculum is an excellent place to integrate Indigenous Knowledge […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 10, 2012

  Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, Science

  Aboriginal, Australian Aboriginal, education, Education Ministry, Indigenous Knowledge, Natural resource, Science Curriculum, Teacher, Traditional knowledge