Welcome to Fresh Water Stories

Fresh Water Stories is a collaborative teaching project founded by Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe and Jack Norton, historians at Normandale Community College.

Using digital humanities and the scholarship of teaching and learning, we invite students to consider how peoples of the past accessed, used, and made meaning with fresh water.
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Our Vision

Assignments

World History 1

• Analyzing Art in Ancient Societies

• Ancient Art Mashup

• Semester-long water history project module For the purposes my sabbatical, this module is relates to making meaning with fresh water.

World History 2

• One-day module on irrigation For the purposes of my sabbatical, this module relates to access of fresh water.

• AMA module on Pakistan For the purposes of my sabbatical, this module relates to use of fresh water.

Sources for Our Courses

The sources we use to teach about fresh water history can be found in our shared citation library. Note: you can search this library by keywords.