Date: March 12th, 2020

Name of Centre

Medicine Wheel Review and Medicine Bag

Rationale for Centre of Learning

-Students will learn about the differences between First Nations, Metis, and Inuit
people, and practice Metis dancing.

5.2 talk about events and retell, dramatize, or represent stories or experiences
that reflect their own heritage and cultural background and the heritage and
cultural backgrounds of others

26.2 understand that different groups/communities may have different ways of

being and working together

31.1 explore different elements of drama (e.g., character, setting, dramatic

structure) and dance (e.g., rhythm, space, shape)
Centre Description

 Have the students sit in a circle.

o Place the medicine wheel in the center of the circle.
o Review what the colors of the medicine wheel symbolize.
 Yellow, Red, Black, and White
 Show the students a medicine bag.
o Describe the contents and why they are important.
o Show the students the medicine bag handout.
 Draw inside the bag things that you would put inside your medicine
bag.
 The medicine bag handout is voluntary and will be placed at
the drawing station.
 Show students 2 steps (walking step and fancy step) without music
o Have students perform the 2 steps
o Place painters’ tape on the floor to give students a path to follow.
o Have music slower and transitions prompted verbally.
Accounting for Learner Diversity

Instruction is done in a verbal, visual, and kinesthetic manner.

Connections to religion and prior learning.

Dancing can be modified to different levels of ability.

Materials Questions
Needed/Provocations

 Smartboard What do the colours of the medicine wheel

 Tape symbolize?
 Red River Jig audio
What is inside your medicine bag?
o Slowed down Red River
Jig audio
 Medicine wheel
 Medicine bag
 Medicine bag handout

Expectations

Students will be able to recall the meaning of the colours of the medicine wheel,
understand the purpose of a medicine bag, and practice a traditional dance of the
Metis people.