Salish Sea Curriculum Repository

Items

• Letter to a Leader

  Students write a one-to-two-page letter to apply their knowledge and analysis to a contemporary issue and develop a position that reflects their research on the issue. Resources for locating a leader in a trans-border region with multiple jurisdictions on the Canadian and U.S. sides of the border is provided in the weeks leading up to this letter-writing assignment.
  

• Salish Sea Reflection Journal

  A compendium of maps, resources, syllabus information, and reflection prompts, the Reflection Journal offers students and instructors a guide for sharing learning, questions, and ideas about Salish Sea Studies.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.