Rethinking Lunchtime: Making Lunch an Integral Part of Education
How the Berkeley School Lunch Initivative enhanced lunchtime learning for 4th and 5th grade students at John Muir Elementary.
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Apr 30
Apr 30
Our Community Geoscape: Living Sustainably
Two sustainability education activity plans, including a role playing/scenario game and "green" design challenge. For students in grades 6 - 9.
Fashioning Flora to Fiber
In this unit, students learn about the importance of traditional technologies through basic mat-weaving techniques and loom construction.
Apr 30
Human by Nature: Reclaiming our Natural Human Heritage
Three hands-on activity plans to educate elementary students about traditional technologies and skills.
Two-Eyed Seeing in a School District
A description of how one school district is embracing the challenge of integrating Native and Western world views in environmental education programming.
Apr 30
Money From the Sea: A Cross-cultural Indigenous Science Activity
This activity introduces grades 5-12 students to the technical sophistication of west coast Native peoples. Students are asked to design a shell-harvesting device and then compare it with the design used by one First Nation/tribe more than a century ago to harvest a special shellfish that lives 70 feet below the surface.
Apr 30
Mother Earth, Grandfather Sun
A “two-eyed seeing” activity for 10-15 year olds that integrates Western and Aboriginal world views while teaching about solstices and equinoxes
Apr 30
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Science
A multidisciplinary outdoor habitat study for grades 3-6. Native elders help students develop new perspectives on nature, learn about medicine wheels, and use their new knowledge to create a habitat wheel
Apr 30
From Scared to Sacred: Changing our Relationship to Nature through Story
An examination of how the objectification of nature in Western storytelling can promote negative attitudes towards nature, and how Native people’s stories can provide a counterbalance
Apr 30
Earth Alive!
In this activity, students in grades 6-10 deify ecosystems based on their physical characteristics, and consider how adding subjectivity to our perceptions of ecosystems might affect our treatment of them
