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Plant Bingo Portfolio and Lil'wat words for learning:
Have you ever walked and wondered about the plants you pass by. What are they called? How have indigenous people used them before settlers arrived? If the plants could communicate, what would they tell us? This plant bingo resource is a way to start to address these questions. A resource to help you connect to the natural world, to notice more. I believe the more we can connect with plants the more likelihood we are to act in way that addresses issues related to the climate and nature emergency (CNE). After all, plant biodiversity is invaluable because it balances ecosystems, protects watersheds, mitigates erosion, moderates climate, and provides shelter for animals. How do we understand and embrace that diversity?
This website has been divided into two sections. The first introduces the plant bingo portfolio (PBP) as a game and a resource for identifying plants. The second section refers to Lil'wat learning and teaching principles, captured by key Lil'wat words taught by Dr Lorna Williams when she led courses at UVic. These terms, based on a land-based language systems, can be used along with the Plant Bingo activity.
Section 1: The PBP notebook has been adapted from ideas online. This version is focused on considering how getting to know plants in your local area can help you connect with plants and connect to indigenous cultures that drew on the properties of these plants as part of their everyday lives. The intent of this resource is to explore how connecting to nature, naming and knowing plants, will help you feel more connected to the diversity and benefits of these plants. Becoming more aware of and appreciative of plants, is proposed as a climate education initiative for physical education towards addressing issues related to the climate and nature emergency (CNE). The second section focuses on how land-based languages such as Lil'Wat language, that connects us back to the land as a way of understanding how to be with each other as part of nature, learning how to be from the world around us.
Big idea to consider. What, in the curriculum, do we teach that could help address issues related to CNE?
The resource linked above refers to Plant Bingo booklet and cards, the template for notebook is posted to the left. Plant Bingo is a way of connecting students/players to the plants in their local area. The idea is to identify a plant in your bingo card, take a picture as evidence, and when you have a line completed show the instructor to score points for your team. Complete the whole card for big points. The Google slide notebook here is the template used to support a selected bingo card. The letters in the index refers to plants with images, descriptors and about information. This booklet can be customized for your local area. This one is designed for Mystic Vale at the University of Victoria.
The link above leads to a selection of Plant Bingo cards notebooks generated from the Google slide template shared here.
To play, select a card number and see if you can find the plants in your local area. PB
Section 2: The resources below refer to Lil'Wat learning and teaching principles that can be used along with the Plant Bingo activity. Used here with permission of the Lil'wat nation. The video takes a walk through Mystic vale and connects to the teachings of Dr Lorna Williams through her Lil'wat nation's words related to learning and teaching. Their language is called Ucwalmícwts.
Links to Dr Williams pronouncing the words are included below. In addition, an article discussing the the teaching of courses in the UVic teacher education program is included with a video outlining the process of one course called "Thunderbird".
Lil'wat Learning and Teaching principles in Mystic Vale
Lil'wat Learning and Teaching principles in Mystic Vale
Lexlixatkwa7 Nelson Maya explains on CBC how to use the Ucwalmícwts language. As she states, "once you learn to count from one to ten, then you can basically speak the language because you have all the sounds in our language, all the sound systems"
Lexlixatkwa7 Nelson is enrolled in the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program at UBC. She is determined to help revitalize the language of her ancestors, Ucwalmícwts.
Orientation walk through of Mystic Vale using selected Lil'wat words
Lil’Wat Learning Principle and Description
acknowledging the felt energy indicating group attunement and the emergence of a common group purpose
each person being responsible for their own and others learning, always seeking learning opportunities
seeking spaces of stillness and quietness amidst our busyness and quest for knowledge
valuing our own expertise and considering how it helps the entire community beyond ourselves
recognizing the need to sometimes be in a place of dissonance and uncertainty, heightened awareness, so as to be open to new learning
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encouraging each of us to do the best we can at each task given to us
Apps designed to translate English into Ucwalmicwts (Lil'wat Language) - First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council
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Insights on teaching at UVic using indigenous learning principles
Insights on teaching at UVic using indigenous learning principles
Science books: Knowing home braiding indigenous science with western science
Science books: Knowing home braiding indigenous science with western science
Knowing Home books attempts to capture the creative vision of Indigenous scientific knowledge and technology that is derived from an ecology of a home place. The traditional wisdom component of Indigenous Science—the values and ways of decision-making—assists humans in their relationship with each other, the land and water, and all of creation. Indigenous perspectives have the potential to give insight and guidance to the kind of environmental ethics and deep understanding that we must gain as we attempt to solve the increasingly complex problems of the 21st century.
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Pacific Northwest Plant Knowledge Cards
Pacific Northwest Plant Knowledge Cards
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