Everything is connected:

Essential Question: How is everything connected from the perspectives of indigenous peoples and Western scientists? What are the advantages to knowing both ways?

I feel that there is more of a connection of getting back to basics in today’s world.  We are looking to find new ways to do things but at what cost? In the traditional ways everyone and everything had a place and a purpose.  Nothing was wasted, while today advancements are being made, it seems a lot more people are trying to find out how to use knowledge from the past to better the thinking of tomorrow.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_science

Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

Objectives

• Learn about the interconnectivity between the air, water, land, fire, and spirit
• Examine the importance of "reading" the land, knowing the local language, learning from Elders, and living in harmony with nature
• Understand that Alaska Native ways of knowing is a systematic method of observing nature and passing on knowledge that is time-tested and successful
• Explain how Western science can complement Alaska Native ways of knowing

I really enjoyed the science fair QuickTime video.  This is something that I can show to my school so they can see other examples of how to do some projects. Since I teach in a small school ideas are sometimes really hard for the students to think about.

http://ankn.uaf.edu/media/videos/funquick.html

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ean08.sci.ess.earthsys.arcticppl/

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ean08_vid_spirit/

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ean08_vid_wind/

Traditional Native Knowledge

There are at least three main reasons for integrating video segments into your

lessons:

A) to introduce a new topic,

B) to provide an additional learning experience to reinforce your current lessons,

C) and to assess the extent to which your students have mastered the material.

http://vitalmedia.thirteen.org/vtlpd/frfofo.pdf

Western Scientific Ways

Elegant universe and electromagnetism will keep students interested. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/3012_q_04.html

Introduction to Google Earth

This was great site to get.  I have google earth as a program on the school computers and we were using this site as a reference to get it going.

It ws great to be able to see on You tube how to use google earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSuJq4UzkIA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0y-q-pI2pQ&NR=1&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7cM5Yvhz4&NR=1&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

2. Extend: How can/will you use this week’s resources and/or others in your community in your lessons?  

Using Google Earth is probably one of the biggest things I will take advantage of from this week’s modules.  We were limping around in it and now I have resources that will help me instruct my students  in a clear and concise way

3. Evaluate: How useful, insightful or relevant are this module’s information and resources for you?

Most of it was pretty cool.  Science fairs and google earth are by the far the best things I saw that I will use.  Of personal interest were some TD videos on people living in the villages.