Todd County Middle School · OSEU 3 · LakotaCulture

Teana Heinert 5/31/2018 8:49:00 AM Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ “Sacred sites” | OSEU 3: Culture & Language: The origin, thought and philosophy of the Oceti Sakowin continues in the contemporary lifestyles of Tribal members. Tribal cultures, traditions and languages are incorporated and are observed by many tribal members both on and off the reservations. 2-3 week project How are the Oceti Sakowin sacred sites, creation stories, and star knowledge related Compelling CC to each other? Indicator 2: Analyze the Oceti Sakowin sacred sites, creation stories, star knowledge, and how they relate to each other 3-5 Standard: Students are able to describe the relationship between the Standards and Practices sacred sites, star knowledge and creation stories. 6-8 Standard: Students are able to use geographic tools to design a map of sacred sites. Staging the Question What is the importance of the sacred sites, creation stories, and star knowledge? Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3 What are the Oceti Sakowin sacred sites and where are What are creation stories? What are the Lakota constellations? they located? Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Students will choose a notecard with names of sacred sites to conduct Students will work in groups to read Students will watch a section of Dr. Craig research on. Students will various creation stories that relate to Howe’s Lakota Star Knowledge video. be grouped according to Oceti Sakowin sites and Lakota Students will also view the planetarium the notecard they picked Constellations. Students will orally showing of the Lakota Constellations and with the sacred site. retell a story to the entire class, Greek Constellations. Students will then There will be no more while demonstrating the location of create star maps (compass) using information than 4 students per the sacred site and/or the gained from the video, Lakota Star knowledge group. Each group will Lakota constellation being talked book, and planetarium. The star maps will make a list (T-chart) of about in the story. include the Lakota names for the sacred sites that they constellations. already know and the location of the site. They will share the list with the class to create class list for discussion prior to research. Students will conduct research on their sacred site to create an informational poster. The poster will include the importance of the sacred site, its name, and location. Students will post their posters in classroom for a walk- through parade. All groups will rotate through each poster. Students will individually reflect on their posters and other classmates’ posters in their journals. Students will use resources from EROS data center and from their classmates’ posters to design their own map (individually) of the locations of all of the Oceti sakowin sacred sites. Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources *Paul Goble books (Star Boy, The *(Dr. Craig Howe-Lakota Star Knowledge): *EROS data satellite images Great Race of the birds and animals, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEyJraiv *Oceti Sakowin Interactive etc.) n8M Map and Dr. Craig Howe *Story telling with Duane Hollow story: Horn Bear: *Lakota Star Knowledge by Ronald Goodman http://nmai.si.edu/nk360/pl https://www.wolakotaproject.org/s ains-belonging- torytelling_duane_hollow_horn_bea *Pierre Discovery Center-Planetarium homelands/oceti- r/ sakowin.cshtml *Lakota Stories: http://www.wolakotaproject.org/la kota-stories/ Write an essay or complete a drawing with labels to explain the relationship between the Summat Argument Oceti Sakowin sacred sites, creation stories, ive and star knowledge. Perform Choose an Oceti Sakowin sacred site and a ance sacred site from another culture to complete a Task Extension venn diagram to compare and contrast the two sites. Students will research the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and current controversies Taking surrounding sacred site preservation and environmental issues (IE: pipeline, Devil’s Tower/rock climbers, Informe etc.) Write a short speech to present to class in favor for or against preserving sacred sites. Include d Action supporting evidence. 5/31/2018 8:49:00 AM