A touching portrait of a man’s family history and the legacy of Canada’s Inuit people in the early 1900s that lives on through him and the photos his grandfather produced during that time.
Grade levels: Upper Elementary (4-6)
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One River Many Relations
One River Many Relations explores the Athabasca Oil Sands from a marginalized and often silenced perspective: communities that live downstream. The film is a collaborative community effort featuring interviews with local Cree, Dene, and Métis members from Fort Chipewyan. It gets to the heart of their concerns for their families, traditional ways, and territories as the Oil Sands encroach closer and closer.
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Mémére Métisse
For over sixty years, loving grandmother Cecile St. Amant has been keeping a deep secret – she is Métis. Cecile’s granddaughter, Janelle, sets out to understand her Mémére’s denial and playfully plots her own mission to open her Mémére’s eyes to the richness of their heritage. As the two face-off in a battle of the wills, Janelle soon realizes that her Mémére will not be easily convinced that being Métis is something of which to be proud. In this heartwarming and extraordinary journey, Janelle’s mischievous and persistent prodding of her grandmother reveals a generation’s legacy of shame and the profound courage of the human spirit to overcome it.
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Choir Boy Lucky
Andrew Balfour’s story is an inspiring and triumphant one. Adoption at two months old to a loving family gave him a happy childhood. Then, after learning as a teenager that he was Métis, he struggled though years of rebellion, homelessness, and served a short prison sentence. Once released he turned his life around though song and continues to inspire and be inspired through a fusion of European and Aboriginal culture, the duality in himself, two strong bloodlines.
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Alice and Kevin
This indigenous Canadian film is about Alice, who is in a race against time to get basic human rights for her son Kevin, who suffers from Cerebral-Palsy. Alice became one of the first outspoken First Nations people in Canada to file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Her fight for her son may well end up bringing proper care to disabled people on reserves all over Canada, forever.
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Finding Focus: Framing Canadian Métis and First Nations on Film
Finding Focus is a resource guide and DVD designed to help high school educators utilize the wealth of creative short films made by talented independent filmmakers in Manitoba and across Canada that focus on Métis and First Nations issues and subject matters. It is our hope that this book and these films, which are about diverse subject matters and are made in a wide range of genres and styles, will assist both teachers and students. This book features 15 chapters, each focusing on a short film of 30 minutes or less, dealing with Métis and First Nations issues. Topics for discussion are included in Before Viewing, During Viewing, and After Viewing sections, with a focus on established curriculum connections. The films touch on a variety of subjects including: Métis and First Nations identity, the environment, Indigenous representation in popular culture, adoption and the Sixties Scoop, and the legacy of the residential school system
Programs included on the DVD:
- Mémére Métisse
- MeskaNahk: My Path
- I’m Métis
- Choir Boy Lucky
- Two Scoops
- Against the Grain
- Empty
- Thicket Portage
- Alice and Kevin
- Tashina
- Overburden: Aboriginal Voices on Life in the Oilsands
- A Good Indian
- Indian
- 504938C
- Ikwe
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The Human Body – Augmented Reality (AR) Book with 8 licenses
Book 1, is a complete gamified journey of the human body. Students can explore all their body organs and functions with an interactive augmented reality experience. Includes skeletal, nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory and urinary systems. The book is “hosted” by two friendly animated characters, Sarah and Adam whom interact with the reader to offer engaging insight.
Augmented Reality app included with each book
8 License activation
Grades 2-9
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Sounds Dreadful
Bang, crash, wallop! What is a sound? How do we hear? How do our ears work?
Inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell joins the team in the studio to talks telephones and… er… metal detectors?!
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Vicious Veg
Flesh-eating plants & dancing flowers are all packed into the show this week.
Mark and Lucy both bring in their favourite plant but, as always, Mark thinks his is the best… until it starts to die. It’s left to Ancient Greek plant expert Theophrastus to explain what is happening.
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The Human Body – Augmented Reality (AR) Book with 2 licenses
Book 1, is a complete gamified journey of the human body. Students can explore all their body organs and functions with an interactive augmented reality experience. Includes skeletal, nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory and urinary systems. The book is “hosted” by two friendly animated characters, Sarah and Adam whom interact with the reader to offer engaging insight.
Augmented Reality app included with each book
Grades 2-9