With students, learn more about traditional ways of making birchbark canoes. View a few videos and explore why birchbark was used, what tools were needed, etc.
Native Art in Canada — “Building Birchbark Canoes: Step by Step Guide to Birchbark Canoes”: http://www.native-art-in-canada.com/birchbarkcanoes.html
“Building a birch-bark canoe”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPCJ5bamBE
“Birchbark Canoe: Creating a replica of an 1860’s Ojibwe canoe.” Produced by Lakeland PBS, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPvbKgxN1c4
