K-12 virtual tours and activities
K-12 virtual tours. Paths of Life video tours and resource kits were created working with UA students Larea Lewis (PhD candidate) and Sarah Willwater (undergraduate). Resource kits are based on the video tours.
Paths of Life Resource Kit: The O’odham, an Indigenous Nation in Arizona and Mexico, for 3rd-6th grades
Paths of Life Resource Kit: The Pascua Yaqui, an Indigenous Nation in Arizona and Mexico, for 3rd-6th grades
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Paths of Life Tour Videos: Introduction, Tohono O’odham, and Yaqui, for 3rd-6th grades
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Arizona in the Late Pleistocene Era Resource Kit, for for 3rd-6th grades based on very small exhibit case exhibit in ASM lobby.
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Woven Through Time short tour: Ancient Twig Animals and Woven Sandals, for K-3rd grades
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High school outreach project about border walls, includes activities and creative products. Taught and created with Marge Pellegrino.
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Upon reading the Journal of Folklore and Education article Pellegrino and I wrote about the project, Elizabeth Deines, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, wrote me (unsolicited):
Lisa, this project sounds so impactful and powerful. The excerpts of students' thinking and emotional response demonstrate that they really started to embrace complexity and multiple perspectives - AWESOME. That micro-research project is a brilliant way to empower students to be curious. To show them that corroborating evidence or asking questions and then following up on them for themselves can be easy, not arduous, and gratifying rather than a grind. Thank you for sharing about your successes in a manner that allows us to learn from them. Thank you for pushing through this challenging time to create something generative and connecting for students.
The classroom teachers expressed that the Exploring Borders program was the highlight of their remote learning experiences, and students at Pueblo High School sent us letters expressing how meaningful the workshop series was for them:
You made me open up my creative mind and question, wonder, and research about the Great Wall of China. I’ve learned things I would never have known. I now have a different perspective on walls. Thank you for making me wonder. –Liliana
I felt welcomed. I felt seen. I felt comfortable. I felt all the things I was expecting not to. … [It was] an experience that has struck me in the most unexpected way and has changed me. You opened my eyes to a world I do not want to forget about anytime soon. A world of transforming old pain into new beauty, new hope, and tearing down walls of all kinds that will cross my path–starting with the one in my heart (and the one dividing our people in México from us). –Karina
Along the whole program, I felt like I was a part of something, meanwhile I was learning all this new information which I could then talk about in new ways and techniques. A part of my family was affected by borders and it hit close to my Heart. –Hector
Exploring Walls through Visual Literacy and Writing Activities, for 9th-12th grades+
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KXCI Radio, Broad Perspectives show, interview, March 14, 2021
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Curriculum guides
Exploring Dress, Culture, and Identity in American Indian Objects and Dress, for grades 7th-12th, on Local Learning Network and Smithsonian Learning Lab sites
Apache 8 Lesson Plans, for grades 7th-higher education, on VisionMaker Media site for use with Apache 8 film
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Museum exhibit gallery guides for families
Life Along the River Discussion Guide for Life Along the River: Ancestral Hopi at Homol’ovi exhibit, Lisa Falk with E. Charles Adams
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"Thought you'd like to know that I stumbled across this exhibition and your discussion guide a few weeks ago at the Winslow Arts Trust. The show looked great, and the conversational labels really drew us in - I knew an educator was involved and when I picked up the guide and saw your name, well, it was all I could do not to shout out loud!" --Frederica Adelman, Director, Smithsonian Associates, via unsolicited email, 6-10-22
Be a Detective: How to Look at Photographs, Looking Guide for Reframing Curtis exhibit
Education Materials Produced
From gallery guides to digital learning explorations.
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