Archaeology allows a new way for students to approach Caribbean history before the Europeans arrived in the region. By studying the exchange of objects by the Amerindians who at the time lived on the different islands, it is possible to teach how movement, facilitated by canoes, enabled them to access regional interaction networks.

This booklet contains information about the concept of seascapes and its application for setting up activities in your classrooms. We have designed this material in a combined collaboration with specialists in the field of archaeology and education.

The worksheets you will find were used in a real school setting with teachers of primary and secondary schools in participatory activities with the school communities of Monte Cristi and Valverde (Dominican Republic) in 2015.  After the experience with teachers we decided to design a booklet to support teachings about the lifeways of the Amerindians in pre-Columbian times using a seascapes approach.

Social Studies, History, and Geography in Primary and Secondary Education

We would like to invite you to use this material to complement your lessons of Social Studies, History, and Geography. In addition, you will find worksheets for primary or secondary school; in this way you can select the worksheet more accurate for your students age-group. 

Now you are ready to check out the material! You will find the booklet with the activities we have designed  in your classroom, and separately we have made available the set of worksheets for each primary and secondary school. You can download and print them to hand out to your students.

If you have comments or feedback we will be glad to help you, just email Eldris, Emma or Tibisay.

“Connecting Canoes: Understanding Seascapes in the Classroom”, is an educational guide that has been produced under the auspices of the ERC Synergy NEXUS1492 Project.