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Engaging with the Periodic Table: �Indigenous Perspectives

Link to the accompanying Ways to Engage with the Periodic Table

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Creation Story/Story/History:

This approach can help students. Story formatting the elements would take on sense-making as a way of relation. While students and teachers everywhere are creating everything from musical notes to memorization to supplement learning, dissemination in story format will offer an alternative that is familiar.

This could also include the creation of their own story, fabricated from research results. This can be a traditional story they already know, found on the internet, created or a historical story.

Connection:

Since time immemorial, dissemination of teachings were strengthened by the power of resonation.

The ability to make a connection to elements can strengthen the resonation to memory in a way that can help students develop a comfort with the information. This strategy will help by creating emergent memories with the periodic table so that when they are required to do so, they will have the confidence to engage with materials that will not be so foreign as they continue their educational journey in STEM classes. Connections made should be something of interest that the student felt best captured their understanding of the element.

Language Ties:

Foster positive relationships by encouraging students to connect with their elders is more an effort to try bridge the divide created by past educational efforts that worked in dismantling relationships.

Benefits:

- supporting language

- not- so- foreign resource

- more of a TRC initiative

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Connection(s):

Traditional Medicine: Eating dirt was associated with building up immunity.

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