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.
  

• ANTH 235 Cross Cultural Medicine: Global Systems Collapse

  This is a parallel track to ANTH 235, Cross Cultural Medicine that focuses on the health impacts of climate disasters, including trauma, grief and anxiety. Students then have the opportunity to visualize a future when the earth recovers its health. What does that look like? How does it happen?
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Creating a digital map with multiple points

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

• 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.