by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
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”:...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
Become a bee ambassador! Let’s do our part to make sure bees never become extinct like they did in How to Bee. One way to do this is by visiting or volunteering with an apiary, charity, learning centre or beekeeper’s association near you to learn more about how to...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
After you’ve finished reading How to Bee, celebrate by baking a passionfruit cake (just like the one that Peony bakes in the book) and have a picnic outside. If completing this activity as a class, bake the cake together if a kitchen is available, or combine the...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
Good for Nothing is set in southwestern Quebec, in what is now La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve. Have students research their area and explore what the historical connection is to Indigenous history. Next, they should research and locate where the closest First Nations,...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
In the story, Nipishish is made to attend residential school and is told and made to feel that he is good for nothing. Ask students: Have you heard of any other residential school survivor stories that relate to this experience? Explain.
