Human Sustainability (Living Lightly Spring)
Human Sustainability (Living Lightly Spring)
Grade Level:
10
Scope & Sequence:
Human Sustainability
Goal:
Create an interactive model to illustrate the relationships among (management of) natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity(Seasonal Round)
Objective:
Students will understand that the sustainability of human societies (whole ecosystems) and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible (management of) natural resources.
Background Knowledge / Cultural Concept
Living Lightly
Honorable Harvest
Value of life, take only what is needed, use all of what is taken. Make sure to leave adequate amounts for the following year
Everything was shared, no one was left out
Caretaker
Reciprocity
Spokane Tribal Values
Land and environment
Respect
Relationships
Home
Community
Honor
Vocabulary
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Proverb/Wisdom
Spring –
Winter camps dispersed to gather food, hunt and fish, the first birds (robins and geese) of the year
Year round –
Toolmaking/repairs/maintenance, Moss, Trout, storytelling
Model
Symbiotic Relationships
Lesson Plan
SPRING –
Winter camps dispersed to gather food, hunt and fish, the first birds (robins and geese) of the year
DNR guest speaker about the impact of Elk – population studies, tribal management of the health of the herd.
When salmon came up the river the men let them go through for a few days before they started to harvest them in order to lessen the impacts of the harvest on the health of the fish for the following year.
Fort Colville story – Soldiers throwing old bones into the river and the salmon not coming back so the people cleaned out the bones and the salmon came back.
Blood in the water to hold back the salmon run in order to give the men time to process what they had harvested.
Returning of the birds – which order they come in and when do they leave.
Assessment:
- Choice Board – Model of Spring Seasonal Round Research Project – Migration patterns of birds and elk
Enrichment:
Field Trip to the Tribal Hatchery
Materials Needed:
Video about the loss of salmon
Activity:
SPRING –
Students will be given a choice board that will display a selection of different types of models. They can choose to create a web based model, paper model, ect. That will demonstrate their knowledge of the Spring Seasonal round.
Field trip to local area for an observational survey of the
Rejuvenation of the ecosystem after the winter.
Hatchery field trip
Research project on the migration of birds and elk
Lesson Assigned To:
ESS3-2
ESS3.A
ESS3-4
ESS3.C