Lesson plan · North Dakota · NDNAEU 6 · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Identity & belonging, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Economy & livelihoods
Resource text
Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“One Bull: A Man of Good Understanding”
NDNAEU 6 “Native Contributions”, NDNAEU 7 “Native Identity”
Compelling Question
Why are the Native American Virtues and qualities important in the development of their young?
Standards and Practices
Practices
CULTURE
8.6.1 Explain ways technology contributes to the spread of ideas, values, and behavioral patterns between societies and regions (e.g., how transportation and communication technologies
contribute to the diffusion of culture)
Staging the Question
Which cultural characteristics are most likely to be retained in the face of political or social change?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
What are the Lakota virtues?
How did Sitting Bull impress the Lakota culture on One Bull?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Students will identify the 4 virtues of the Lakota society
Students will identify the examples how Sitting Bull
promoted the Lakota cultural virtues
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
http://kalloch.org/lakota__four_values.htm
https://teachingsofourelders.org/essential-understanding-3-catherine-howard/
North Dakota History
One Bull: A Man of Good Understanding
Vol. 66, No. 3 & 4 – Su/F 1999
By Carole Barrett
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SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Supported Claim
(written/spoken)
or Demonstration of Process
(project-based)
Have students debate which virtue they believe is most important and why.
SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK:
Extension
Students can write an essay by identify the virtues that they believe are important in their culture.
Taking Informed Action / Real World Application
After studying the relationship between Sitting Bull and One Bull students and review the Lakota virtues and determine which virtues served One Bull best