Guide

Lesson Plan: Translating Research on Mercury into Ojibwe

Discover how we translated a whole video on the impact of mercury on fresh water into Ojibwe.

By Nancy Jones, Don Jones, Jason Jones, Bruce Townsend, Pauline Gerrard, Dilber Yunus on August 30, 2021

In this lesson plan, we take you through how we took a video about the impact of mercury on fresh water in English and transformed it into Ojibwe (below)—all with the goal of empowering Ojibwe-speaking people to better understand the threats to their freshwater supplies and to take action.

This lesson plan includes a full transcript of the video and then breaks down the sentences, explores the grammar, and explains how we created new words. The end of the video includes suggested learning activities.

Guide details

Topic
Water
Region
Canada
Project
IISD Experimental Lakes Area
Focus area
Resources
Publisher
IISD
Copyright
IISD, 2021