Math in Indigenous Weaving
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/
" Approximately twenty educators gathered at the Sitka Campus of the University
of Alaska Southeast (UAS) in August 1999 for an Indigenous Curriculum Development
in Science Institute. Dr. Claudette Engblom Bradley (UAF), Dr. Tom Thornton
(UAS), Michael Travis, Dr. Richard and Mrs.Nora Dauenhauer (Sealaska Heritage
Foundation)
served as the Institute instructors."
Excerpt: "Language has a profound influence on culture and world view,
and it is a tragedy of our age that Native American languages are in peril.
Tlingit is no exception. Like other Native languages, Tlingit was traditionally
an oral language, but it is one that will not survive unless it becomes
a written language which is read."
KEET
By Claribel and Henry Davis
Teaching Unit for Primary Grades K-3
http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/curriculum/Keet/Keet_TOC.htm
Alaskool
http://www.Alaskool.org/
The Alaska Native
Curriculum and Teacher Development Project (ANCTD)
brings together teams of teachers, elders, and community members in
various parts of Alaska with university-based specialists to develop
curricula on Alaska Native studies and language that is available to all
schools through the internet or on CD. The project is supported by a
grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
One Reel, based in Seattle, Washington, has sponsored a number of wild
salmon education projects since 1994. Andy Hope, Nora and Richard Dauenhauer
were members of the team that One Reel organized in 1999 that developed
the I Am Salmon curriculum project. A number of Alaskan classroom teachers
and educators have participated in the I Am Salmon project over the last
three and one half years.
Juneau's Floyd Dryden Middle School Wolf Team Plant Project
Excerpt:
"The students on the 7th grade Wolf Team at Floyd Dryden Middle
School spent the fall quarter of 1999-2000 studying local plants. They
studied characteristics of plants, how plants are classified, and the
structure and function of plants. Students learned about the traditional
uses of plants from many books and from a very knowledgeable Tlingit elder,
Marie Olsen. Each students collected plant specimens, pressed them, and
made a plant book."
Living in a Fish Camp, Curriculum Guide Grades K - 5
by Juneau Indian Studies Program
http://ankn.uaf.edu/FishCamp/index.html
The Juneau Indian Studies Elementary Guide is designed for teacher use
and is primarily based on the culture and environment unique to Southeast
Alaska.
Teacher and student created material from the Juneau School District.
|