Curriculum

The Real Thanksgiving

This lesson deconstructs the story of Thanksgiving and reframes it from a Native American perspective for upper division, high school classes. Students will learn the significance of annual times of harvest in the Wampanoag and Pilgrim cultures by comparing and contrasting the ways in which these holidays were observed.

The Three Sisters

This lesson for upper division, high school classes teaches students about Indigenous permaculture, an approach to agricultural design that includes whole systems thinking and considers the co-habitation of plant, animal and human beings. It also teaches students how to apply traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) when growing and living amongst corn, beans and squash, also known as “the three sisters.”