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Compelling question
What is family?
Standards & practices
OSEU 4.1 – Compare and contrast the traditional Oceti Sakowin family
structure to contemporary family structures
3.H.2.3 Analyze a community’s culture and history
Staging the question
What are the potential different roles people play in a family?
Supporting inquiries
Supporting question 1
Who is in your family?
Formative performance task
Have students draw and label
family members that live in
your house.
What the video link below
about Lakota family names.
Featured sources
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=MnXmGscq7OE
Supporting question 2
How are families the
same/different?
Formative performance task
Have students compare their
families with each other.
Featured sources
Read “Who’s in a Family”
https://www.amazon.com/Wh
os-Family-Robert-
Skutch/dp/188367266X
Supporting question 3
What makes an extended
family? What is a hunka
Formative performance task
Have students draw and label
family members that do not live
in their house.
Do you have to be related to call someone your family?
Give reasons to support your answer.
Extension
Have students bring one item that represents their
culture/heritage and describe the importance of it.
Taking informed action
Create a family tree (with blood and non-blood relatives).
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Classroom Families
“Family” | OSEU 4: Kinship & Harmony
Compelling Question
What is family?
Standards and Practices
OSEU 4.1 – Compare and contrast the traditional Oceti Sakowin family
structure to contemporary family structures
3.H.2.3 Analyze a community’s culture and history
Staging the Question
What are the potential different roles people play in a family?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
Supporting Question 3
Who is in your family?
How are families the
same/different?
What makes an extended
family? What is a hunka
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Have students draw and label
family members that live in
your house.
What the video link below
about Lakota family names.
Have students compare their
families with each other.
Have students draw and label
family members that do not live
in their house.
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=MnXmGscq7OE
Read “Who’s in a Family”
https://www.amazon.com/Wh
os-Family-Robert-
Skutch/dp/188367266X
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=-
YQt5Sv_NqI&feature=youtu.be
Summative
Performance Task
Argument
Do you have to be related to call someone your family?
Give reasons to support your answer.
Extension
Have students bring one item that represents their
culture/heritage and describe the importance of it.
Taking Informed Action
Create a family tree (with blood and non-blood relatives).