The following curricula were written by teachers who attended the "Indigenous Peoples of the Americas" summer institutes for high school teachers held at Yale University. The first curriculum unit in each section was developed by Elise Weisenbach (Branford High School Spanish teacher), who served all three years as the Summer Institute Teacher Advisor. Curricula from 2012 and 2013 received significant input following the institutes from Institue Director Dr. Megan O'Neil and Ms. Weisenbach, whereas the shorter lessons developed during the 2014 institute received an initial review by program staff during the final day of the institute. Please see sponsor recognition information below.
Cultural Heritage: Traditional Mexican Cuisine Across Time
Elise Weisenbach
Pearl Lau
Ancient American Pottery and Techniques – Maya Pottery
Marie Monks
Tourism vs Ecotourism: Which is More Sustainable in Developing Economies?
PowerPoint for Tourism vs Ecotourism
Marty Cruz-Bock
The Corn Identity: from Teosinte to Doritos to Ethanol
Anne Kinzie Culhane
Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 600-1500
Dawn Petry
Regarding Maya Apocalypse 2012: The End of the World?
Handouts for Maya Apocalypse 2012
Jeffrey C. Smith
Culture Mapping and Myths of Creation
Susan Bennitt
El Arte de América Latina y Mesoamérica
Giovanna Carbone
Reading Ancient Images: Using Murals to Interpret Maya History and Create a Personal Narrative
Vanessa Del Giudice
Dancing in Time: Bailando al compás del calendario Maya
PowerPoints for Dancing in Time: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Lynn Fernandez
Introduction to Maya Cultures Past and Present: Colors, Clothing, Food and Places
Smartboard Resources: Maps Food Clothing Palenque
Victoria Neely Hart
Textiles of the Maya in Chiapas, Mexico
Virginia Hilyard
Exploring Culture and Communication
Allison Shuda
Mesoamerica across Time: Oaxaca and Chiapas Then and Now
PowerPoints for Oaxaca and Chiapas
Lisa Sragovicz
American Histories: Native Peoples and Europeans in the Americas
Elise Weisenbach
Soapstone Bowls
Found Object Sculptures
Marie Monks
The Mission Complexes of San Antonio, Texas
Marty Cruz-Bock
When Worlds Collide
Toni Criscuolo
The Diversity of American Colonial Societies
Dawn Petry
Chocolate
Susan Bennitt
Our Indigenous Heritage
Yoseli Castillo
New World, New People: Exploring Cultural Identity in Latin American through Painting and Film
Vanessa Del Giudice
Early Encounters: Native Tainos and Europeans Explorers
Angela Dominguez-Newball
The Grand and Glorious History of the Ordinary Potato
Lynn Fernandez
The History of Chocolate
Zak Foster
Queen Isabella of Castilla and the Name Santiago in America
Antonio Losada
Lesson extension for “Voices and Visions of the Conquest” (see Weisenbach, above)
Laurie Losada
Medicina tradicional
Kat Mendez
Native Peoples & Europeans in the Americas
Lisa Sragovicz
Study of Columbus at the Court of Barcelona
Elise Weisenbach
Nicole Caracciolo
Indigenous Basket Making in the Northeast (one-day lesson)
Indigenous Beading/Quillwork Techniques in the Northeast (mini-unit)
Marie Monks
Introducing Black Seminoles (one-day lesson)
King Philip’s War (mini-unit)
Ruth Burson
The Indigenous Atlantic
Stephanie Factor
Lauren Goldberg
Discovering Identity
George Kraus
Native Americans/Indigenous Atlantic Cultures
Lauren Merriam
The Cultures of Native Peoples (one-day Museum visit)
Effects of Spanish Rule on Native Peoples (mini-unit)
Brian Rappelfeld
El intercambio colombino: Los comestibles
Vanessa Del Giudice
Es complicado: Reflexiones de identidad en la música del Caribe
Lynn Fernandez
Are the Tainos Still Here?
Zak Foster
Institutes in 2012 and 2013 were jointly sponsored and carried out by Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER) at the MacMillan Center, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and were supported by a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the United States Department of Education. All of the "Indigenous Peoples of the Americas" Summer Institutes were made possible by generous support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
For more information, contact:
Tom Parlapiano, Institute Coordinator
(203) 737-3065 or thomas.parlapiano@yale.edu
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