Lesson / Document · South Dakota · OSEU 4
Themes: Kinship & family, Education & learning, Culture & continuity, Arts & expression
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Family” | OSEU 4: Kinship & Harmony
Compelling Question What is the value of family?
OSEUS 4.1 – Compare and contrast the traditional Oceti Sakowin family structure to
contemporary family structures.
Standards and Practices
2.H.1.2- Use historical records and artifacts including but not limited to photos,
diaries, oral histories, and videos to draw conclusions about family or school life in
the past
How are family structures similar and how are they different?
Staging the Question
In what ways are relationships impacted by the names we use?
Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2
Who is part of my family? What names do I call my family members?
Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task
Use one of the videos listed below to get students Spend some time learning about Lakota names for
thinking about their families. family members.
Have students name the family members they have. Sing the song “That’s Me!” with students.
Make a list of who lives with them and how they are Create a family constellation with the student in the
related. middle and their relatives around them using Lakota
kinship terms.
Have students compare their families with each other.
Use the posters below to help with kinship terms.
What are the differences, what are the similarities?
Spend time discussing the use of a term like “auntie”
How do my relationships with my family members or “tunwin” for women outside the immediate family.
help or challenge me?
Use Glady’s Hawk’s video below to talk about how
relationships have changed over time.
Featured Sources Featured Sources
Family Video Amazon.com “The Star People” S.D. Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzlxG2B2neU https://youtu.be/-YQt5Sv_NqI (That’s Me!)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/video/19 http://www.wolakotaproject.org/wp-
1 content/uploads/2014/04/Kinship_Terms_Posters.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcW6tMPgmxI http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu-four/oseu-
four-interview-with-gladys-hawk/
Summative Have students discuss how kinship terms and
Argument relationships help or challenge them in their daily
Performance Task lives.
Have family members come in to the classroom to
Extension
speak with the students about their culture/heritage.
Create a family constellation to share with the class as part of getting to know each
Taking Informed Action
other.