Tea and Bannock Instructions

This lesson will be visited over two days. The first day will be an exploration of the history of bannock. The second day will see us making our own bannock.

Lesson 1:

Bannock History:

Listen to the CBC radio's unreserved audio clip on bannock. While you are listening think about: why bannock became such a popular food item for Indigenous people and European settlers and why is it still popular today?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/bannock-wild-meat-and-indigenous-food-sovereignty-1.3424436/bannock-a-brief-history-1.3425549 (Listen to the 5:46 audio clip)

Explore these sites and Complete the Worksheet:

Spend some time looking through the links placed below. If it is a longer article try hitting "ctrl+f" and type in what you are looking for in the search bar that pops up. It will then search the article for the word you are trying to find.

http://fooddaycanada.ca/featured-article/bannock-canadas-first-peoples/ (read to find out where the word Bannock comes from and what ingredients other than flour bannock might have been made of)

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/nutrition/if-nfs-baked-bannock.pdf (read to find out some nutrition facts information on bannock)

https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/rsi/fnb/bannockawareness.pdf (skim to find information on Indigenous food sources, nutrition information, and many different bannock recipes).

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Lesson #2

Mrs. Serviss will be joining us on the morning of April 5th to make bannock with us.