Museum Visit

Activity: Museum Visit
Lesson description: 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.
Discipline: Social Sciences
Spatial coverage: This field trip was designed for the Whatcom Museum Exhibit of the Sea and Cedar, but can be adapted for any other museum context. If you cannot get to a museum in person (or if students are absent) there is a virtual make-up option.
Course modality: Face-to-face
Temporal coverage: Since Time Immemorial
Estimated time for students to complete activity: One hour
Creator: Jennifer Zovar
Institutional affiliation: Whatcom Community College
License: Creative Commons Attribution
Type: Activity (for example: field trip, lesson plan, lecture)