Seminar: Stewardship of Trees and Forests for Environmental and Human Health
Program: TLSI
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level: 6th
Year of Publication: 2022
Abstract
This unit will basically cover the eight moon phases as presented in the curriculum used by San Carlos Middle School for science. Edmentum’s Study Island is a curriculum that provides lessons in the content areas, practice, and formative tests and aligns with Arizona State standards (Edmentum, 2022). This unit will also include the Apache moon phases as presented in a lecture given by Seth Pilsk, San Carlos Apache Tribe botanist (S. Pilsk, personal communication, 2022). A creation story of the Western Apaches is presented in two videos as told by two Western Apaches (Apachecreation, 2017; Alamac, 2009). The Farmer’s Almanac will provide information on how plant growth depends on moon phases. The lunar influence on plants is another perspective by Ian Cole and Michael J. Balick that will be presented in 2022. It supports the theory of seeds growing healthier and more plentiful if planted during a certain moon phase. Students will use the WYLDE 2022 Moon Calendar as it visualizes that moon phases last for a duration of time. It will determine the days of the month students will plant above or below-ground seeds. Students will also see that the month does not begin with the new moon phase but that it is determined by the rotation/revolution of the earth and moon and begins at different intervals of the moon phases. The 2017-2018 Lunar Calendar, Nest’án, Harvest, created by the Traditional Western Apache Diet Project, covers the wild Indigenous native plants and animals available for harvest. At different times of the year, Western Apaches harvested plants or animals needed for their traditional diet.