EDUT 5334 Beyond the Book-Braiding Sweetgrass
Beyond the Book: Creating a Comprehensive Unit for Braiding Sweetgrass
Young Reader’s Editions provide an incredible opportunity to teach students new ideas in developmentally appropriate ways. However, designing a unit is no small feat. Teachers rarely have time to innovate their lessons, let alone an entire unit of study...until now! This course in the Beyond the Book Series allows you to design an instructional unit for Braiding Sweetgrass. Identify key themes and quotes and explore multimedia resources to build background and content-area knowledge. Then, using best practices in Backwards Design and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), develop a variety of learning activities and a final project to create a dynamic, engaging unit! By the end of this course, you will have a complete unit of study, and feel energized, confident, and ready to teach Braiding Sweetgrass.