Growing our knowledge

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Joint Education Action Plan

YFN Joint Education Action Plan 2014-2024: A Blueprint to Strengthen Our Roots and to Close the Education Gap

Online resources

Local organizations and resources that may help with your planning are listed below. This list is not exhaustive.  Please use the form below to share suggestions! ​

Yukon

• Council of Yukon First Nations
• Department of Education EnviroWild program​
• Department of Environment wildlife viewing 
• Ethnographic, Cultural and Historical Overview of Yukon's First Peoples
• First Nation School Board learning tools
• Guide to Heritage Stewardship for Yukon First Nation Governments
• How We Walk with Land and Water
• Mapping the Way: Land Use and Special Management Areas
• ​Mapping the Way: Protecting & Managing Yukon's Natural Places
• ​Moccasin Trailblazers
• Our Journey: Yukon First Nations Land Claims and Self-Government
• Walking Our Path Together: A Journey of Reconciliation 
• ​Wilderness safety
• Yukon Avalanche Association 
• Yukon Conservation Society
• Yukon First Nation Education Directorate
• Yukon Geographical Place Names Board
• Yukon Hiking 
• Yukon Native Language Centre: teaching resources
• Yukon territorial parks and other conservation areas
• ​Yukon University-news: Indigenous knowledge

Northwest Territories 

• Dechinta: Indigenous Land-Based Learning in the Era of Covid-19 Webinar and Interview Series
• ​Evaluation for Land-Based Programming: A Literature Review 
• Intergenerational Programming: A Toolkit for the Northwest Territories
  
• NWT On The Land Collaborative

Other recommended resources

• Association for Experiential Education​
• Land Needs Guardians
• Leave No Trace Canada
• National Outdoor Leadership School Educator Notebooks
• National Outdoor Leadership School Learning Resources video playlist
• ​Reconciling Ways of Knowing: Bringing together Indigenous knowledge and western ways of knowing for the benefit of our shared lands and waters
• Risk Benefit Assessment for Outdoor Play: A Canadian Toolkit
  
• Taylor Institute: Indigenous ways of knowing
• The Journal of Experiential Education (JEE) ​

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Professional development 

Available upon request through Department of Education
​Contact curriculum@yukon.ca with questions

• Inquiry-based learning
• Spiral of inquiry - learning networks
• Experiential literacy
• Team building/initiative tasks
• Field trip planning & risk management​​

Available upon request through Department of Environment EnviroWild
​Contact envirowild@yukon.ca for more information

• Project Wild 
• Project Wet 
• Below Zero ​

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