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Hecla Island School Teacher's Guide

Table of Contents (1.32 Mb PDF file)

Part 1: An Introduction

• Schooling on Hecla Island (4.08 Mb PDF file)

Part 2: Activity Topics and Lesson Ideas

• Unit 1:  Hecla Island Geology:  a Visit to a Quarry  (2.41 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 2:  Nature's Delicate Balance:  a Visit to Grassy Narrows Marsh  (2.07 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 3:  Aboriginal History on Hecla Island  (2.18 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 4:  From Iceland to Hecla Island  (4.59 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 5:  Hecla Island's Viking Names  (1.58 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 6:  A Visit to Hecla Church and Pioneer Cemetery (1.46 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 7:  Hecla Island Place Names (2.70 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 8:  Land Surveying and Homesteading on Hecla Island  (2.56 Mb PDF file)

• Unit 9:  Hecla Island Legends  (2.70 Mb PDF file)

Selected Bibliography  (.3 Mb PDF file)

Evaluation Form    (.2 Mb PDF file)

Appendices  (full download 14.7 Mb PDF file)

• Nature Revisited  (.9 Mb PDF file)

• The Water Cycle  (1.2 Mb PDF file)

• Grassy Narrows Marsh Hiking Trails  (1.1 Mb PDF file)

• Aquatic Insects and Other Invertebrates  (3.1 Mb PDF file)

• The Treaties of Canada with the Indians (2.3 Mb PDF file)

• Flame Lee, Miser, Pot Belly and Gusher  (.7 Mb PDF file)

• Pioneers and Place Names of New Iceland  (.8 Mb PDF file)

• Pioneers and Place Names  (.8 Mb PDF file)

• Survey in Mikley (Hecla Island) 1878  (.7 Mb PDF file)

• Settlers in Mikley (Hecla Island) 1878 (1.5 Mb PDF file)

• Manitoba's Geographical Names  (1.4 Mb PDF file)

• Capt. Sygtryggur Jonasson  (.4 Mb PDF file)