We are excited to share thirteen new lessons and activities meant to be taught in your schoolyard. These lessons are focused on uplifting Indigenous wisdom to help kids gain meaningful connection to the big climate topics of our time. They’re hands-on, each lesson pairing with a stewardship activity focused on giving back to your garden, trees, and entire ecological community.
The pivotal text inspiring these lessons is Lenapehoking: An Anthology edited by Joe Baker, Hadrien Coumans and Joel Whitney at Lenape Center and available at The Brooklyn Public Library. This beautiful book is full of Lenape poetry, art, and myth-correcting history. I recommend that every teacher interested in using these lessons checks out a copy to read first.
Read more about the origins of this project here:
Outside Lenapehoking? Check out this template which will guide you in adapting the lessons to other tribal lands and regions:
Before downloading these lessons, please let us know who you are and how you plan to use them! After you try them out, we’d also love any pics of the lessons in action. Please send questions or pictures to Tiffany(dot)Briery(at)tpl.org.
Lenapehoking Climate Curriculum and Supplemental Materials
*Each lesson includes clickable links to resources including the Lenape Language library and stewardship activities.
Click on each lesson title and supplemental resource below to download.
This chart links each lesson to the Next Generation Science Standards. We hope that all of these lesson are adaptable to standards of interest and your teaching goals: