Curriculum Unit
Welcome to Turtle Island
Connecting with Indigenous Wisdom through Photographic Participatory Science
David Ostheimer
Title Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
Students will understand how to use photography and citizen science to help us be good stewards to our land just as the indigenous cultures of our region were before us.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
How can we use photograph ad citizen science to help us connect with nature?
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C
Citizen Science
Climate Indigenous Cultures
Photography
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C
What can we do to create positive change in our environment?
How do we see our world? How did/do Native Americans?
How do we take pictures? How can our photos be useful?
VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C
Habitat loss, native species
Indigenous, Lenni Lenape, Nanticoke
Frame, subject, rule of thirds
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES
Rule of Thirds in Photography." Digital Photography School. December 01, 2020. Accessed December 07, 2020. https://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds/ .
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Books, 2013.
Messinger, Carla Kanietakeron, Susan Kanietakeron Katz, and David Kanietakeron Fadden. When the Shadbush Blooms. New York, NY: Lee and Low Books, 2020.