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Native Voices: Culturally Responsive Curriculum for Grades 7-12

This curriculum integrates CVD research with innovative instructional methods, enhancing language arts and health education while fostering cultural understanding. Topics range from tobacco to healthy living, empowering students through discussions, projects, and real-life examples. Created by Native Voices.

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Native Voices: Culturally Responsive Curriculum for Grades 7-12

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  1. In Our Voice A culturally responsive curriculum for students in grades 7 – 12 incorporates the research on preventing CVD, uses state-of-the art instructional practices, is ‘user-friendly’ for teachers, reinforces language arts and health standards, and provides accurate and culturally appropriate information.

  2. Topics • Grade 7: Tobacco • Grade 8: Body Image • Grade 9: Exercise • Grade 10: Weight and Nutrition • Grade 11: CVD • Grade 12: Healthy for Life

  3. Structure • Guided by teachers, powered by students. • Gives students information. • Provides opportunities to learn from their and other people's experiences.

  4. Discussions Students share their opinions and ideas in small- and large-group discussions.

  5. Content Students learn relevant content about each topic including the ways in which the media promotes unhealthy behavior.

  6. Skills Students learn a skill step by step by seeing it modeled, practicing it among themselves, and transferring it to situations outside the classroom.

  7. Projects Students become health activists; designing and implementing projects to take what they learned and apply it to make a positive change in their school community.

  8. Videos of Native students their own age: discussing the topic they’ll cover in the lessons, modeling relevant skills in realistic situations, and making a healthy difference in their communities. Produced by Native Voices, the premier Native American media training center in the United States, at the University of Washington Videos

  9. Articles and Stories • Native characters act out the topic issue or skill • Personalizes the topic so that students can relate the issue or skill to their own experience • Dr. Lori Lambert, enrolled member of the Abenaki Nation and a descendent of Mi’kmaq tribal members and French Acadians • Native Art

  10. 7th Grade Example • Introduction (video) • Content • Media • Consequences • Prevalence and the Perception of Use • Family Position • Refusal Skills • Projects (video)

  11. Cherokee Wisdom

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