Exploring barriers to incorporating Indigenous knowledge in outdoor classrooms

Enriching the curriculum to fight climate change

The dream of Riverside’s Knowledge Path became a reality during COVID-19.

Lessons on protecting nature from the first conservationists

Connecting STEM to Indigenous science

Helping student teachers make the connection between Indigenous and environmental education through inquiry-based learning

Bringing Western and Indigenous methods to the science classroom

How to develop a community-wide strategy to nurture environmental stewardship in children and teens

Transforming the mindsets of teens through a wildcrafting course

Use Aboriginal and historical knowledge to develop character and a sense of community among students of all ages

Introduce grade 4-7 students to Indigenous knowledge and local ecosystems by sustainably harvesting wild products

Two-Eyed Seeing (also known as integrative science, native science, and ecological metissage) is a term describing a way of understanding the world from two cultural perspectives – Western scientific knowledge and native science.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.

A description of how one school district is embracing the challenge of integrating Native and Western world views in environmental education programming.

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.

A “two-eyed seeing” activity for 10-15 year olds that integrates Western and Aboriginal world views while teaching about solstices and equinoxes

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

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

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

An introductory lesson for teenagers in astronomy, using an Indigenous legend as a guide for observing celestial changes through the seasons

An integrative science activity for 9-15 year olds which describes how to measure vitamin C levels in teas made from the needles of coniferous trees.

A summary of a unit on birds that presents questions one might ask high school students in order to learn about birds from both Western and Indigenous science perspectives.

An introduction to Integrative Science— science that integrates the best of Western and Indigenous sciences and helps young people appreciate the strengths of each.

Twenty five basic activities inspired by the writings of people who have lived close to the land. These activities aim to develop a deeper sense of place by going beyond Western science to observe and interact with nature qualitatively as well as quantitatively.