Footprints
Footprints serve as a place for educators to become acquainted with different activities related to place-based learning. Each footprint leads to a pedagogically designed lesson plan that encourages students to engage in place-based learning. Our hope is that you leverage the activity and contextualize it as needed to create your own footprint to take your students on an adventure to visit a new place or space.
Linguistic Landscape Activity: Noticing your Surroundings
This activity allows students to explore their linguistic landscape, both noticing and reflecting on their surroundings.
Noticing on the Go
This activity allows students to recognize and explore their surroundings to dig deeper into linguistic, cultural and social meaning.
Mapping Identity: Narrating a Place-Based Personal Story
This activity helps to understand the role of place in shaping people’s individual histories and identities.
“Slow Journalism – Urban Slow Walks” Border Crossings Everyday
This activity helps students to observe and document hidden borders and boundaries in their community, and in the target language environment and any associated cultural and social meanings associated with invisible and visible boundaries.
Traveling to Guatemala
This activity is designed to introduce students to the various landscapes that exist within Guatemala, providing an opportunity for cultural comparisons and access to immersive landscapes.
Morocco’s Historical Places
This virtual visit to historical places in Morocco will provide students with an understanding of the country’s history, culture, and architecture.
Food and Culture in Morocco
"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the word to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn." -Anthony Bourdain...