5 Free Educational Interactive Websites with an Aboriginal Focus

Are you looking for innovative ways to connect your students to Aboriginal culture and history?

While creating On the Path of the Elders, we found a surprising lack of interactive online resources for educators trying to integrate Aboriginal content into the classroom.

While there are numerous excellent websites devoted to providing information about various issues relating to First Nations, few sites try to engage directly with Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal youths.

So, to save you from further frustration, here are 5 quality resources to get you started in your search:

Online History Games Pose a Challenge to Education

The benefits of integrating online games – particularly role-playing games – into the classroom are endless:

• Rather than passively absorbing content to be regurgitated at a later date, students are encouraged to take control of their own learning
• Creativity, critical thinking, decision making, and leadership skills are employed to achieve desired goals
• There is freedom from failure, so students can try out different solutions in unfamiliar situations and can feel comfortable relying on their own abilities

In other words, role-playing games shifts the power in the classroom: educators are able to act as facilitators, rather than directors.