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the four seasons of the ojibwe

GARDENING

What kinds of vegetables do you think the Ojibwe people cultivated?
Play the video to check your predictions

Does your family plant a garden?
Play video to see gardening process
North House Folk School. Birch Bark Berry Basket: Builder’s Workshop (2009)

Planting a garden.  
​How do the three different plants help each other?

The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb, eliminating the need for poles. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants use.  The squash spreads along the ground, blocking the sunlight, helping prevent establishment of weeds.
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Page Jump
1  
Essential Question
2  Learning goal
3  New Vocabulary words
4  Summer Season – “Today you will learn about”…
5  Video – Summer Village – Migration 
6  Summer Wigwam
7  Video – Getting Seeds
8  Gardening  - Tools
9  Slide Show – Ojibwe Cultivated Foods & Video – Planting the Garden
10  After the Harvest
11  Video – Refilling the Cache
12  Gathering
13  Slide Show – Gathering
14  Where Do You Get Your Food?
15  Summer Sports and Games
16  Games of Chance 
17  Ojibwe Games
18  Ojibwe Toys
19  The Little Snapping Turtles – Maude Kegg Personal Story in Ojibwe & The Little Snapping Turtles – in English
20  Animated Story – The Little Snapping Turtles
21  Turtle Story Questions
22  Pow-Wows
23  Summer Season Review
24  Essential Question Review
25  Learning Goal Review
​26  Extension of Learning & Maude Kegg writing activities ​