Salish Sea Curriculum Repository

6 item sets

• Salish Activities
  
  Salish Sea Studies offers engaged and experiential learning opportunities. The activities here have been designed by educators for use in a variety of classes. You are welcome to adopt and adapt these activities to your learning environment.
• Salish Assessments
  
  Activities, lessons and other types of assessments. These assessments can be graded/ungraded optional or required.
• Salish Assignments
  
• Salish Resources
  
• Salish Sea Syllabi
  
• Suggestions for Salish Sea Core Resources
  

18 items

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Embodied Mapping
  
  Students will deepen their knowledge of Salish Sea geography by creating a collective embodied map of assigned places.
• 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.
• 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.
• Fish Farming in the Salish Sea: A Discussion of Five Perspectives
  
  This activity is designed to provide students with differing perspectives on the future of salmon within the Salish Sea using interview data with different stakeholders in the region.
• 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.
• Lummi Nation Aquaculture: A Community-Based History Lesson Plan
  
  The 45-page lesson plan, Lummi Nation Aquaculture: A Community-Based History, asks students to answer the historical question, “Why did the Lummi Nation build an aquaculture facility in the 1970s?” It includes a five-page background lecture, a PowerPoint presentation with limited text, a timeline, eight annotated primary sources, and guided reading and research questions that help students grapple with written evidence and formulate an interpretation. In most cases, the source is followed by "Notes from the Schelangen Division." Schelangen is a Lummi language word that refers to the Lummi “way of life"; the Schelangen Division is another name for the Lummi Nation Cultural Commission. The Lummi Nation Cultural Commission members created the "Notes from the Schelangen Division" during the Community-Based Participatory Research Project meetings, which were essential to this lesson plan. These Notes provide Lummi perspectives on the primary source documents and their significance. The research and design process, which began in the Summer of 2021, involved several applications and intensive rewriting to meet the standards and protocols of the Northwest Indian College’s Institutional Review Board.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Species Story
  
  A species story combines factual information about a species in the Salish Sea with storytelling skills. By using story, students move from a report- or research-mode to describe the natural world into a humanistic sharing of knowledge of a being in its place and context.
• 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.