Level 2 – Exploratory Learning (Upper Elementary/Middle School) | Social Studies | High-Tech Approach, Project-Based, Inquiry-Based

Digital Stories of Tlingit Life Yesterday and Today Tlingit Educational Significance: “Out of shared telling and remembering grow identity, connection, and pride, binding people to a place and to one another.” — Tom Rankin, Folklorist This unit invites youth to explore their cultural past through the examination of pictures, artifacts, and oral histories, and to make inferences like ethnohistorians. By looking at the lives of Tlingit one hundred years ago in Juneau and comparing life yesterday to life today, it is the intention of this unit for youth to better understand their connections to this place, grow in knowledge of their past, and create a story that binds the past with their present. Tlingit Elder Role: Unit participants will interview Tlingit Elders as part of the research of the past. Students working in collaborative groups will devise interview questions for the Elders in preparation for the creation of a digital…