Students from Carlton High School working with Trent Armitage on the resource project for Indigenous Youth in April, 2020. (National Science Laboratory Video Lessons for Aboriginal Youth/Facebook)

By paNOW Staff

National Science Laboratory Video Lessons

FNUniv launch new teaching resource with help from Carlton students

Dec 8, 2022 | 10:00 AM

High School students from Prince Albert had a helping hand in developing a new teaching resource with the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv).

On Wednesday, the FNUniv announced the launch of the National Science Laboratory Video Lessons for Indigenous Youth.

“What really sets this project apart is the coming together of Indigenous ways of knowing with modern science and the collective effort put behind creating these resources,” said Dr. Arzu Sardarli, who led the project. “We were also very deliberate about engaging and training Indigenous high school students to perform the lab experiments. For us, it was about giving Indigenous students and their teachers across the country the opportunity to learn from their peers and to send the message that they can successfully conduct these experiments at their home schools using relatively simple equipment.”

Laboratory experiments were conducted by students of Carlton Comprehensive High School in Prince Albert and recorded for online publication and hardcopy distribution to First Nation high schools across Canada to promote science among Indigenous youth.

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The project started in 2017 with work continuing through the pandemic and wrapping up in November.

After consulting First Nations high schools in the country, five topics were chosen for each subject— Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

The high school students conducted the experiments with help from Trent Armitage, the Educational Consultant on the project, and Dr. Sardarli.

University students from FNUniv and the University of Saskatchewan’s SUNTEP program were also involved as research assistants.

“We aimed to create educational materials that are culturally appropriate and that Indigenous youth can relate to — ones that present a different perspective and help to decolonize their learning experience,” said Jana Sasakamoose, a research assistant on the project. “Having these resources for Indigenous youth to review and study, on topics that they may already have some knowledge of or interest in learning about, will help students to further their education and support more Indigenous youth to enter the field of science.”

The project was supported by the FNUniv and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

The laboratory videos and accompanying manuals are publicly available at indigenousyouthscience.ca. You can also learn more on the project’s Facebook page.

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