What is the Moose Hide Campaign? The Moose Hide Campaign is a movement to put an end to violence against women and children.
You may have heard of the Moose Hide Campaign but not sure how to introduce to your classroom community? Below I will indicate how I created a lesson on the Moose Hide Campaign and how you can adapt for classroom use.
Set up your classroom: We formed a large circle with our chairs in the centre of the classroom.
1) Visit The Moose Hide Campaign Webpage- https://moosehidecampaign.ca/ to gain more knowledge yourself prior to your lesson and instructions on how to order Moose Hide for your classroom. (You can also check in with your Aboriginal Child Care worker, who may connect you to a class set of Moose Hide).
2) Build an essential question. The one I used was: "How would you feel if your mother, aunt or sister was taken away from you? (Classroom discussion) Our classroom discussion led into rich discussions. (Depending on your classroom community this could be a sensitive topic for students who may have lost a loved one). -- Something neat happened in our classroom students were making connections to Residential School.
3) Using the projector show students the homepage of the "Moose Hide Campaign Project" to tell students what this project is about. Read over a few highlights together. A big highlight in our class was going over "Why Use Moose Hide" https://moosehidecampaign.ca/index.php/events/why-use-moosehide
Investigate---Another option is asking students to type in the website on an Ipad and record 2-4 new things they learned by visiting the website themselves before bringing it to a classroom wide discussion.
4) Think, pair, share --Why do you think this campaign is important? What is the purpose/message?
5) We engaged in a video "The Moose Hide Campaign" 5:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8a5JOd8Bs off YouTube.
6) Every single student in my classroom received a Moose Hide with pride. Wearing the Moose Hide you are committing to honour, respect and protect the women and children in your life against violence.
This lesson led us into talking more about "Grassroots" projects. We brainstormed how we could commit to spread the message!
A few Quick Facts ..
Thank you Lise (Royal Heights Aboriginal Child Care Worker) for showing me the Moose Hide Campaign.
You may have heard of the Moose Hide Campaign but not sure how to introduce to your classroom community? Below I will indicate how I created a lesson on the Moose Hide Campaign and how you can adapt for classroom use.
Set up your classroom: We formed a large circle with our chairs in the centre of the classroom.
1) Visit The Moose Hide Campaign Webpage- https://moosehidecampaign.ca/ to gain more knowledge yourself prior to your lesson and instructions on how to order Moose Hide for your classroom. (You can also check in with your Aboriginal Child Care worker, who may connect you to a class set of Moose Hide).
2) Build an essential question. The one I used was: "How would you feel if your mother, aunt or sister was taken away from you? (Classroom discussion) Our classroom discussion led into rich discussions. (Depending on your classroom community this could be a sensitive topic for students who may have lost a loved one). -- Something neat happened in our classroom students were making connections to Residential School.
3) Using the projector show students the homepage of the "Moose Hide Campaign Project" to tell students what this project is about. Read over a few highlights together. A big highlight in our class was going over "Why Use Moose Hide" https://moosehidecampaign.ca/index.php/events/why-use-moosehide
Investigate---Another option is asking students to type in the website on an Ipad and record 2-4 new things they learned by visiting the website themselves before bringing it to a classroom wide discussion.
4) Think, pair, share --Why do you think this campaign is important? What is the purpose/message?
5) We engaged in a video "The Moose Hide Campaign" 5:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8a5JOd8Bs off YouTube.
6) Every single student in my classroom received a Moose Hide with pride. Wearing the Moose Hide you are committing to honour, respect and protect the women and children in your life against violence.
This lesson led us into talking more about "Grassroots" projects. We brainstormed how we could commit to spread the message!
A few Quick Facts ..
- According to Statistics Canada, on average, a woman in Canada is killed in a domestic homicide every five days, and on any given day, over 6,000 women and children are living in emergency shelters to escape abuse. ‡
- Recognizing that Aboriginal women are three times more likely to experience violence and be assaulted by their partner than non-Aboriginal women, B.C. is investing $2 million to help Aboriginal communities and organizations develop and deliver local programs as part of the three year Provincial Domestic Violence Plan. ‡
- In February 2016, the Province co-hosted the B.C. Family Gathering event for over 350 family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The Province shared their feedback with the federal government and participants of the National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. ‡
- B.C. invests $70 million each year on prevention and intervention services and programs to protect vulnerable women and victims of crime. ‡ Over the last two years an additional $7 million in civil forfeiture grants has been targeted to action on violence against women. ‡
- B.C. now has 58 projects that focus on supporting Aboriginal communities in anti- violence and prevention initiatives supported by civil forfeiture grant funding. ‡
- B.C. is improving transportation and cell service coverage to increase public safety on highways in the north.
- B.C. has committed $5 million to the Highway 16 Transportation Action Plan which will improve access to transportation services along the Highway 16 corridor and enable residents of First Nations communities and municipalities to travel safely to and from rural towns and villages along Highway 16.
- Under B.C. s 10 year Connecting British Columbia ͟Agreement with Telus, more than 1,600 km of new cellular highway coverage has been completed, which includes more than 500 km of expanded cell phone service along Highway 16.
Thank you Lise (Royal Heights Aboriginal Child Care Worker) for showing me the Moose Hide Campaign.
Photos from our classroom lesson on the Moose Hide Project- September 22nd