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Compelling question
How are people connected to the living world?
Standards & practices
RL3.1
RL4.1
RL5.1
Staging the question
Read Brother Eagle, Sister Sky aloud.
Supporting inquiries
Supporting question 1
How are people connected to the living world?
Formative performance task
Discuss environmental connections. Use the suggested poem, song, posters, and yarn web to represent interdependence.
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3-5 Lesson Plan
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers
Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings:
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OESU 1, Indicator 3 for 3-5: Students are able to describe the cause and effect of pollution on
the environment.
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OSEU 2, Indicator 1 for K-2: Students will be able to explain the values learned through stories.
Common Core State Standards:
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RL3.1-3, RL4.1-3, RL5.1-3: Characters, setting and major events of a story
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Speaking and Listening Standards 1-3 for 3-5 Students
Introduction:
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Begin by talking about stories. Why do we tell stories? What kinds of things do we learn from
stories? How do stories help us to learn about life?
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Share that we are going to watch as a story is read to us. Focus on lessons learned from the
story.
Lesson:
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Read the story, Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, together discussing as you go through the story. You
could also watch the story being told by using this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=milJHghIdII
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Talk about the story. What are some things that this story helped us to learn? How does this
story help us learn about the environment?
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Apply the story – One of the ways that people have learned for many years is by listening to
stories. Talk about how this story helps us learn ways that we are all connected.
Possible Follow-Up Activities:
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Write a song or poem together in response to the story.
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Create posters about Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, that share the lessons learned about the
environment.
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Create a web with yarn together representing how we are all inter-connected.
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