Curriculum Year: 2023-2024
Origin Stories of Land Use
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12This lesson explores the meaning of land both environmentally and culturally, incorporating viewpoints of land from indigenous stakeholders, ecologists, government entities, historians and economists. How we ascribe value to land definitely impacts how that land is transformed or restored. Who has a voice in this process and why? Do all…
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Preserving Indigenous Culture & Tradition: Symbolism & Finding Identity through Beadwork
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12Students will learn about North Carolina Indigenous cultures, traditions, symbolism, and beadwork. They will have the opportunity to work with a guest artist to spark their creative minds. They will sketch a beadwork design incorporating a specific tribe, history, and an Identity Symbol. Students will sew their design as a…
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Preserving Indigenous Hawaiian Culture Through Aloha
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5As fifth-grade students begin to learn about the life of North America’s first peoples, the Age of Exploration, and colonization, they will be asked to analyze the effects that European exploration had on Native Hawaiian Peoples. Students will begin this lesson learning about Hawaiian history. Then they will explore Native…
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Researching Methods: Indigenous Genocide using the “Ten Stages of Genocide”
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12This lesson will provide students with an overview of the Ten Stages of Genocide, authored by Dr. George Stanton of Genocide Watch to determine how government policies have been utilized to eradicate communities throughout world history. Students will be assigned or select an Indigenous community to research and evaluate, using…
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Sea Ice Impacts on a Subsistence Lifestyle
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 6-8, 9-12Students will be introduced to the subsistence lifestyle through the interconnected lenses of changing climate, food insecurity, and decreasing sea ice. Students will become familiar with the location of Savoonga, Alaska, home to a Siberian Yupik community, within the Arctic region as a whole, as well as be able to…
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Songwriting as Story Telling: Celebrating Indigenous Cultures Through Poetry and Music
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5Students will demonstrate their understanding of what it means to be Indigenous and Native Peoples and that many of these cultures and First Nations continue to be vibrant and thriving communities to this day. They will be able to identify a variety of First Nations around the world by describing…
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Still Here: Listening to Native American Women’s Voices
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 6-8, 9-12This lesson is an opportunity for students to recognize that Native American women’s stories offer valuable insights on their life experiences and American history. Students will learn about Native American women, listen to their stories, and recognize that these voices offer contributions to enrich their understanding of US history and…
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The Impact of Indigenous Novels: A Book Club Unit
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12In this Literature Circles/ Book Club unit, students will select novels to read in groups that all focus on the experiences of Indigenous peoples. They will conduct group meetings to discuss their selected novel and explore the themes and ideas presented in their novel to help them understand its cultural…
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The Voices Ricochet: Dissecting Myths and Stereotypes By Establishing Awareness of Indigenous Groups Among Youth
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12The voices of Indigenous groups globally still ricochet amidst paradigm shifts. This lesson is designed to raise awareness of their existence among youth. To equip students with the skills needed to function effectively in the 21st century, this lesson is designed to help students understand the realities surrounding Indigenous groups…
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Themes in Indigenous Stories
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5Students will hear stories about Indigenous People and their connections to the earth and its resources. They will see how the areas lived in drive the stories that we are listening to by comparing and contrasting elements of folktales. Students will look at the central message, setting, character, and themes…
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