Salish Sea Curriculum Repository

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• Environmentalism: Muir, Pinchot, COP 27

  Read excerpts from John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and articles on the latest COP meetings. Discuss views, issues, feelings about them.
  

• Archaeology Lesson Plan

  The lesson introduces students to archaeology as a way of knowing the “deep history” of the Salish Sea and presents a brief review of the archaeology of the region. We also discuss the importance of this history to modern peoples today, including the necessity for archaeologists to collaborate with Indigenous communities.
  

• Mapping the Archaeological Past of the Salish Sea (MAPSS)

  The exercise is aimed to help students explain the basic chronology of culture history in the Salish Sea and identify important local archaeological sites and/or traditional cultural places on both sides of the international border.
  

• Museum Visit

  A field trip to a local museum allows students to interact with and learn from material items from the Salish Sea and also encourages students to think about the ethics of museum representation and Indigenous collaboration.
  

• Embodied Mapping

  Students will deepen their knowledge of Salish Sea geography by creating a collective embodied map of assigned places.
  

• Map Library Visit

  Students will engage their Salish Sea learning from different disciplinary perspectives through engaging with maps at a series of stations at the Map Collection.
  

• SALI Lab Gameboard

  This (virtual) lab component for the Introduction to the Salish Sea course supports students' engagement in independent experiential learning using walks, reading, podcasts, recorded lectures, and tracing local ecology.
  

• Creating a digital map with multiple points

  Pin locations on a Google Map and share your research about the sites.
  

• Virtual Field Exploration of Beaches in the Salish Sea

  Students explore beaches in the Bellingham Bay virtually making observations and inferences and apply that to content they have learned.
  

• Creating a historical marker about a local history topic

  How do we connect stories of people to place? The objective of this three-part project is to make the connection between the forced removal of Bellingham’s Punjabi community in 1907 to the history of Bellingham’s contested waterfront.
  

• Find your watershed

  Students learn how to use Google Maps and Google Images to find their watershed and get a sense of its topography and geography.
  

• Settler colonial histories

  After going through a timeline that covers the arrival of newcomers in the past three centuries, students journal their reflections on how colonialism shapes the past, present, and future. In the second video, students learn about concepts such as moving into a place, arrivants, guests, and write a 3-5 sentence positionality biography.
  

• Coast & Straits Salish Homelands & Waters

  Students find their place in the timescale of human experience in the Salish Sea, learn about map resources including native land.ca, and use maps to identify the Indigenous nations that are connected to the watershed where they live.