Lesson plan · North Dakota · NDNAEU 1 · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Kinship & family, Identity & belonging, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Community & responsibility, Listening & observation
Resource text
Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Who Am I?”
NDNAEU 1 “Sacred Relatives”, NDNAEU 7 “Native Identity”
Compelling Question
What is my purpose in life? Who Am I? How did the Wolf teach the Anishinaabe their gift or purpose?
Standards and Practices
North Dakota Studies/Culture Standards
7.6.2 Explain how individuals and institutions influence one another
7.6.3 Compare how cultures throughout the world meet human needs and concerns
7.6.5 Explain how rivalry and tension between cultures contribute to world conflict
Staging the Question
How does one contribute to others/the earth?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
How is Native Identity important to individual Native Americans?
What is your identity?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Students will read the posters and listen to 2 Native
Americans, Joe White Mountain and Carol Davis and
understand their view on Native Identity.
Students will create a foot step pattern on their journey to find “Who they are” and their purpose in life is.
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Posters
on Joe White Mountain and Carol Davis and
video of them
www.teachingsofourelders.org
Video on Prince EA on “I am NOT black, you are NOT white”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLDulaww_QM
Word document instructions on their footprints in life
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Supported Claim
(written/spoken)
or Demonstration of Process
(project-based)
none
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Extension
none
Taking Informed Action / Real World Application
Have a gallery of all the students posters footprints in the hallway to show the school/community every student has a purpose and everyone should respect others goals/dream.