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Grades
3-6
1
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2
Hours

Medicine Walk

Outdoors
Science
First Peoples Principles
This lesson plan provides students with a hands-on experience of gathering local, traditional medicines of the Sto:lo people in a respectful way.

Concepts at a Glance

  • Begin to understand that natural materials can be changed through physical and chemical processes.
  • Acknowledge local actions have global consequences and global actions have local consequences, and what humans do to the land affects us all. 
  • Identify three traditional medicines, gather and prepare them. 
  • Build relationships to the land, other cultures, and with famil, ancestors and the school and community.

Curriculum Connections

Grade 3 Science:

Biodiversity in the local environment 

Grade 4 Science:

Big Ideas: All living things sense and respond to their environment. 

Grade 5 Science:

First Peoples concepts of interconnectedness in the environment

Language Arts 3-6:

Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy

Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

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