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2025-10-02
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Watersheds as Place:
Integrating Biocultural Awareness and Experiential Place-based Professional Development
Sydney Raboin
University of North Dakota
Joshua Hunter
University of North Dakota
Keywords: Arts-Based Education, Biocultural Relationships, North Dakota Native American Essential Understandings (NDNAEU) , Watersheds, STEAM Education, Indigenized learning, place-based education
Abstract
Project CuRRENT (Culturally Relevant River Education for Nature-based Teaching) established a professional development program that offers experiences and resources to assist educators with integrating interdisciplinary STEAM curriculum and Indigenized instruction with place-based, culturally relevant, local watershed education. By highlighting the significance of arts-based and hands-on immersive experiences within science learning and exploring the reciprocal relationship we have with nature, this project aims to increase teachers’ knowledge of and self-efficacy with connecting to biocultural place and embedding place-based and Indigenous Knowledge into STEAM.
