The Seven Grandfather Teachings Totem Pole Writing Crafts and Activities

❤️Looking for culturally appropriate activities to celebrate Native American Heritage or Indigenous Peoples' Day in your classroom?

❤️Your students will love learning about The Seven Grandfather Teachings (The 7 Sacred Teachings) while creating beautiful totem pole writing crafts! (With tons of fun extension activities!)

⭐️What are The Seven Grandfather Teachings?

It is believed that this wisdom came from the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people, but has been adapted and used by many Indigenous cultures. Each teaching is a special lesson that helps us be better to ourselves, others, and the world around us. (Note: The animals and teachings can vary based on location or Indigenous group.)

⭐️ Learn about:

love (eagle), respect (buffalo), courage (bear), honesty (raven), wisdom (beaver), humility (wolf), and truth (turtle).

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✏️Use the cultural guide and reading passages to teach about The Seven Sacred Teachings and their significance in Indigenous cultures.

✏️Students can choose from 7 animals to create their totem pole or create all 7!

✏️These teachings can be incorporated into social-emotional learning (SEL) or character education.

✏️Crafts are differentiated! Students can choose a 2D or 3D craft, and craft pieces for beginner or advanced cutting skills. They can also choose from a variety of writing projects and writing sheet options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)

✏️Dive deeper with a mini reader, reading comprehension, real-life connection activities, true or false, vocabulary, sentence-fixing activities, and more!

✏️Use the craft projects to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' creativity!

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⭐️ Great for any elementary grade!

⭐️ Use for Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Aboriginal education, Canadian First Peoples education, First Nations education, character education, social-emotional learning (SEL), social studies centers, small groups, morning work, partner work, indoor recess, early finishers, art centers, rewards, coloring book gifts, sub tub, intervention programs and more!

⭐️Clipartist describes clipart as being "inspired by Native American, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Haida, and Pacific Northwest Coast."

⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!

⭐️Check out the preview for more details!

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✅ What You Get: (82 pages)

✏️Teaching Materials: (9 pages)

☑ Cultural information guide (2 pages)

☑ Information on each teaching (7 pages)

✏️Craft Project: (33 pages)

☑ Craft directions (3 pages)

☑ Craft examples (1 page)

☑ Craft pieces - 3 printing options (29 pages)

✏️Writing Projects: (18 pages)

☑ Brainstorming templates (4 pages)

Dotted lines:

☑ Animal name tracing (2 pages)

☑ Animal name - blank (2 pages)

☑ "My Totem Pole" - full page (1 page)

☑ "All About Totem Poles" - full page (1 page)

☑ "The Seven Grandfather Teachings" - full page (1 page)

☑ Blank full page (1 page)

Solid lines:

☑ Animal name - blank (2 pages)

☑ "My Totem Pole" - full page (1 page)

☑ "All About Totem Poles" - full page (1 page)

☑ "The Seven Grandfather Teachings" - full page (1 page)

☑ Blank full page (1 page)

✏️Student Activities: (22 pages)

☑ Mini booklet (1 page)

☑ Real-life connections (7 pages)

☑ Seven Teachings vocabulary matching (1 page)

☑ Seven Teachings word search (1 page)

☑ Reading comprehension (3 pages)

☑ True or False (3 pages)

☑ Vocabulary words (3 pages)

☑ Fix the sentences (3 pages)

✅ Bonus: (108 pages)

☑ Table of contents (4 pages)

☑ Black and white set (82 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Answer key (21 pages)

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If you have any questions, please contact me: 

kimberly@kimberlysclassroom.com

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Wishing you a wonderful school year!

❤️Kimberly