Taking Your Students Outside: Learning on Indigenous Land

I know many of you might be thinking about how to facilitate learning outside, where the risk of Covid-19 transmission is lower.

I'm asking myself:

• How do we move forward in a way where all learners can build healthier relationships with the land and each other?

• Can we learn from Indigenous ways of knowing on the land without engaging in appropriation?

 
Many of us are thinking "how can I teach outside?" But what if we collectively dug deeper. The land holds wisdom, language, medicines, and so much more. What if we were to approach this work with respect, humility, and by centering Indigenous Nations and their sovereignty on the land.

In this spirit, Dr. Jean-Paul Restoule and I have a number of free webinars available to for you to view. Below are direct links to the recordings on Youtube. You can also find and their related resources all posted on my website.

1) In March 2020, we met with the team from Natural Curiosity, who specialize in inquiry with the natural world. The second edition of the teacher guide includes incorporating Indigenous lenses of this work, which was a main focus of the webinar we recorded. 

2) In November 2019, we met with author and illustrator Joanne Robertson and teacher Peter Cameron to learn about Nokomis Josephine Mandamin and her journey walking for water. They shared about the ongoing work of the Junior Water Walkers A ReconcilACTION project which encourages you and your students to build a relationship with a nearby body of water and to engage in advocacy for the health of that water. 

3) In April 2020, Dkhale Hayle Gallup joined us to speak about her work bringing Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Place-based learning into the STEM classroom. She provided many free resources to aid in your learning, all of which I posted at www.angelanardozi.com/webinars.