USC4.1

Indicator:

USC4.1 a. Examine personal, past, and present knowledge about healthy eating and physical activity (e.g., exercise as important to health, trends such as jogging and home gyms, females and exercise/ sports).

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

Medicine Wheel

• Teachings of the Medicine Wheel - power point presentation - GSCS teachers contact your FNIME rep at your school or FNMIE Unit at Board Office
• Traditional First Nations Medicine Wheel - GSCS teachers contact FNMIE Unit at board office
• Traditional Teachings of the Medicine Wheel - Indian Head First Nations - this website gives concise information about the tradition and symbolism of the medicine wheel - http://www.indianheadfirstnations.com/wheel.htm
• Empowering the Spirit - Native Literacy Curriculum - Lesson Plan 3 - page 12 - this lesson plan introduces the medicine wheel - Author: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm - ISBN: 1-896832-05-9

Traditional Food

• Native Contributions: Food, Lifestyle, Medicine and Earth Wisdom - discusses major staple foods of the world that come from Aboriginal peoples - http://www.shannonthunderbird.com/native_contribtutions%20II%20Food.htm
• NativeTech.org - sharing and experimenting with First Nations recipes - http://www.nativetech.org/recipes/index.php

Traditional Games

• Living Traditions - Virtual Museum of Canada - http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Traditions/English/metis_games.html
• Native American Games and Stories - James Bruchac and Joseph Bruchac - Core Learning Resources - 604-540-2355
• Nehiyaw Ma Tow We Na - Games of the Plains Cree - Pat Atimoyoo - available through the SUNTEP Library - contact Cynthia Fey or Melanie McClean - 975-7095.  Also check with your librarian.

Dance

• Music, Dance and Culture of First Nations, Métis and Inuit People - a brief description of dance and music - excellent for teacher knowledge - http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=feature/abspirit/abback/ab_ceremony_program
• Métis Jigging - teach your class basic steps through online video - http://www.metismuseum.ca/search/results.php
• St.Mary's Song and Dance Troupe - invite local First Nations and Métis dancers to your school to perform and teach
• St.Mary Community School 659-7400 or 659-7783 / Contact Cecile Smith or Marlene Brisebois or contact FNMIE Unit for support.

Indicator:

USC4.1 b. Investigate personal, family, community, and cultural factors that influence healthy eating (e.g., time, serving size, cultural food practices and values, water consumption, access to healthy foods).

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

Health Eating Choices

• Healthy Food Guidelines for First Nations Communities - http://www.fnhc.ca/index.php/initiatives/community_health/nutrition/

Water Consumption

• Water: It's Many Uses - Unit 3, pg. 12 - The Learning Circle: Classroom Activities on First Nations in Canada - http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/R72-278-2001E.pdf - from INAC website @ www.inac.gc.ca

Traditional recipes

• Aboriginal / First Nations Food - traditional recipes - www.trutleisland.org - http://www.turtleisland.org/culture/culture-food.htm
• Chances are, it's Aboriginal - A Conversation about Aboriginal Foods - story about where foods come from - http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ach/lr/ks/rrds/fd-eng.pdf - http://www.inac.gc.ca

Indicator:

USC4.1 c. Discuss factors of healthy eating over which one has control (e.g., drinking more water).

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

• Healthy Food Guidelines for First Nations Communities - charts that divide each food group into 3 categories - 1) leave off the table 2) sometimes on the table and great on the table - pages 6-14 - http://www.fnhc.ca/index.php/initiatives/community_health/nutrition/

Indicator:

USC4.1 d. Explain the importance of particular eating practices, including drinking water as a thirst quencher and eating breakfast.

Indicator:

USC4.1 e. Demonstrate an understanding of healthy food choices (e.g., analyze nutritional values of particular foods) and serving sizes that support good health (see Canada's Food Guide).

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

• Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide - First Nations, Inuit, Métis - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/pubs/fnim-pnim/index-eng.php
• Look at the nutritional value and serving sizes of traditional foods compared to today's health daily choices and fast food and commercially produced products.

Indicator:

USC4.1 f. Investigate personal, family, community, and cultural factors that influence physical activity (e.g., time, cultural practices and values, access, safety).

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

• Traditional lifestyle - a day in the life - comparison to life today.

Indicator:

USC4.1 g.  Review the health benefits of regular physical activity and the health risks of inactivity for pre/adolescence.

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

• Strengthening the Circle - Aboriginal Health Strategy - deals with specific health challenges currently facing Aboriginal Communities - pages 24-27.
• Contact: Central Urban Métis Federation Inc - 306-975-9999.
• Contact: Kinistin Saulteaux Nation - 306-878-8188.
• Contact: Saskatoon Health Region Public Health Services - 306-655-4600.
• Healthy Food Guidelines for First Nations Communities - http://www.fnhc.ca/index.php/initiatives/community_health/nutrition/

Indicator:

USC4.1 h. Investigate peer norms and popular trends related to healthy eating and physical activity.

Indicator:

USC4.1 i. Explore the consequences (both positive and negative) of following or resisting peer norms and/or popular trends related to eating and physical activity.

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

• First Nations Success Stories - video - NHL player - http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ap/ss/kj/index-eng.asp - www.inac.gc.ca

Indicator:

USC4.1 j. Investigate the physical activity opportunities in the community that benefit and/or challenge mental, socio-emotional, and spiritual well-being for pre/adolescence (e.g., develop personal gifts, and potential).

First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Integration Resources:

• Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre - Youth Development Programs - here you will find programs available to youth in the Saskatoon community - http://www.simfc.com/programs_youthdepartment.html
• Teachings of the Medicine Wheel - power point presentation - GSCS teachers contact your FNIME rep at your school or Larry McCallum - lmccallum@gscs.sk.ca - using the Medicine Wheel, identify how physical activity fits into the Medicine Wheel and benefits mental, socio-emotional and spiritual well-being.
• City of Saskatoon - Youth Programs - look at the programs available to youth in your area at - http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/Community%20Services/Communitydevelopment/YouthMetawetan/Pages/YouthMetawetan.aspx

Indicator:

USC4.1 k. Investigate personal changes that need to be made for better nutrition (e.g., serving sizes, variety of foods) and appropriate amounts of physical activity (see Canada's Guide to Physical Activity).