Looking for meaningful Treaties Recognition Week activities to introduce your elementary students to treaties in Canada? This Treaty Recognition Week resource is designed to help students learn about Canadian treaties, explore treaty relationships, and understand why treaties continue to matter today.
Perfect for November’s Treaty Recognition Week (November 2–8), this resource includes a 7-page lesson, treaty reflection questions, a treaty map activity, a classroom treaty activity, and a bulletin board kit to support your teaching.
Whether you are introducing treaties for the first time or looking for ways to extend your students’ learning, these activities provide opportunities to explore, reflect, ask questions, and make connections to treaty relationships.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
This Treaty Recognition Week resource includes everything you need to introduce treaty learning in your classroom!
✦ 7-Page Treaty Lesson Introduce students to Treaty Recognition Week and learn about treaties in Canada. Use the lesson to build background knowledge, introduce important ideas, and encourage thoughtful conversations.
✦ Treaty Reflection Questions Give students opportunities to reflect on what they have learned about treaties, why they are important, and what questions they still have. These questions can be used for individual responses, partner discussions, or whole-class conversations.
✦ Treaty Map Activity Explore treaties in Canada with a map activity. Help students make connections between treaties, land, and the places where people live. This activity provides a starting point for learning about treaty relationships across Canada.
✦ Create a Classroom Treaty Invite students to work together to create a classroom treaty. Discuss shared responsibilities, commitments, and ways to honour agreements within your classroom community. This activity provides a familiar starting point for discussing relationships and responsibilities while recognizing that classroom agreements are different from treaties between Nations.
✦ Treaty Recognition Week Bulletin Board Kit Create a meaningful classroom display to recognize Treaty Recognition Week and keep treaty learning visible in your classroom.
TREATY BULLETIN BOARD DISPLAY
The bulletin board kit includes two important messages:
✦ “WE ARE ALL TREATY PEOPLE”
✦ “OUR CLASSROOM TREATY”
Use these display pieces to create a classroom bulletin board that encourages students to think about treaty relationships, shared responsibilities, and the importance of honouring commitments.
WHY USE THIS TREATY RECOGNITION WEEK RESOURCE?
Treaty Recognition Week is an opportunity to introduce students to the history and ongoing significance of treaties in Canada.
These Treaties Recognition Week activities provide different ways for students to engage with the topic through reading, mapping, discussion, reflection, and classroom participation.
Students will have opportunities to:
- Learn what treaties are and why they matter.
- Explore treaty relationships in Canada.
- Make connections between treaties, land, and community.
- Reflect on responsibilities and commitments.
- Participate in meaningful classroom discussions.
- Recognize that treaties are living agreements that continue to matter today.
PERFECT FOR:
- Treaty Recognition Week in November.
- Elementary social studies lessons.
- Indigenous education.
- Learning about Canadian treaties.
- Classroom discussions about relationships and responsibilities.
- Teachers looking for meaningful Treaty Recognition Week activities.
BRING TREATY LEARNING INTO YOUR CLASSROOM!
Use this resource during Treaty Recognition Week or throughout the school year as you introduce and revisit learning about treaties in Canada.
Treaty education is ongoing learning. Use this resource as a starting point for thoughtful conversations, and connect your teaching to local treaty information, Indigenous perspectives, and the Nations whose lands your students live and learn on.
Download your Treaty Recognition Week resource and bring meaningful treaty learning into your classroom! 💜
