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Compelling question
What are the nine reservations in South Dakota?
Standards & practices
OSEU 1.1: Identify changes from the historic land base ot the contemporary nine-reservation
South Dakota land base of the Oceti Sakowin, and analyze the causes and implication of
those changes.
4.G.1.1: Locate major political and physical features of South Dakota and the United States
on a map or globe.
4.G.2.1: Compare and Contrast regions of South Dakota to one another.
4.G.3.1: Describe how natural and human conditions shape places and regions.
Staging the question
Where are the 9 reservations located in South Dakota?
How do connections to people help to also connect to the land?
Supporting inquiries
Supporting question 1
What are the 9 reservations?
Formative performance task
Class discussion of locations of reservations in South Dakota
Chart their thinking on the big map of South Dakota with labels of reservation and tribe.
Class Discussion on where they are
Have students make their own map with the correct placement of reservation and tribe.
Read The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Watch video of Lowell Amiotte –Connections to Land and People
Featured sources
The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Outline Map of South Dakota
Cutouts of each reservation
Copy of each reservation for each student
http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu-one-lowell-amiotte-connections-to-land-and-people/
Supporting question 2
Where are the 9 reservations
located?
Formative performance task
Class discussion of locations of reservations in South Dakota
Chart their thinking on the big map of South Dakota with labels of reservation and tribe.
Class Discussion on where they are
Have students make their own map with the correct placement of reservation and tribe.
Read The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Watch video of Lowell Amiotte –Connections to Land and People
Featured sources
The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Outline Map of South Dakota
Cutouts of each reservation
Copy of each reservation for each student
http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu-one-lowell-amiotte-connections-to-land-and-people/
Supporting question 3
What tribes live on each
reservation?
Formative performance task
Class discussion of locations of reservations in South Dakota
Chart their thinking on the big map of South Dakota with labels of reservation and tribe.
Class Discussion on where they are
Have students make their own map with the correct placement of reservation and tribe.
Read The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Watch video of Lowell Amiotte –Connections to Land and People
Featured sources
The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Outline Map of South Dakota
Cutouts of each reservation
Copy of each reservation for each student
http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu-one-lowell-amiotte-connections-to-land-and-people/
Summative performance task · Argument
Have students discuss how the land and its location can affect the tribe/s
that lives there?
Performance Task
Extension
Look at a traditional map of the 50 states and notice that the reservations
aren’t represented on the map but make the connections between
Taking informed action
Identify the capitals of the nine reservations and how they are similar to the capitals of the
50 states.
Llklkl
Cheyenne River
Pine Ridge
Crow Creek
Lake Traverse
Yankton Sioux
Flandreau
Santee Sioux
Rosebud
Lower Brule
Standing Rock
Agency Village
Pine Ridge
Lower Brule
Eagle Butte
Rosebud
Fort Thompson Fort Yates
Wagner
Flandreau
RESERVATIONS
CAPITALS
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Reservations and Capitals of South Dakota” | OSEU 1: Lands & Environment
Compelling Question
What are the nine reservations in South Dakota?
Standards and
Practices
OSEU 1.1: Identify changes from the historic land base ot the contemporary nine-reservation
South Dakota land base of the Oceti Sakowin, and analyze the causes and implication of
those changes.
4.G.1.1: Locate major political and physical features of South Dakota and the United States
on a map or globe.
4.G.2.1: Compare and Contrast regions of South Dakota to one another.
4.G.3.1: Describe how natural and human conditions shape places and regions.
Staging the Question
Where are the 9 reservations located in South Dakota?
How do connections to people help to also connect to the land?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
Supporting Question 3
What are the 9 reservations?
Where are the 9 reservations
located?
What tribes live on each
reservation?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Class discussion of locations of reservations in South Dakota
Chart their thinking on the big map of South Dakota with labels of reservation and tribe.
Class Discussion on where they are
Have students make their own map with the correct placement of reservation and tribe.
Read The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Watch video of Lowell Amiotte –Connections to Land and People
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
The Star People: A Lakota Story by SD Nelson
Outline Map of South Dakota
Cutouts of each reservation
Copy of each reservation for each student
http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu-one-lowell-amiotte-connections-to-land-and-people/
Summative
Argument
Have students discuss how the land and its location can affect the tribe/s
that lives there?
Performance Task
Extension
Look at a traditional map of the 50 states and notice that the reservations
aren’t represented on the map but make the connections between
Taking Informed Action
Identify the capitals of the nine reservations and how they are similar to the capitals of the
50 states.
Llklkl
Cheyenne River
Pine Ridge
Crow Creek
Lake Traverse
Yankton Sioux
Flandreau
Santee Sioux
Rosebud
Lower Brule
Standing Rock
Agency Village
Pine Ridge
Lower Brule
Eagle Butte
Rosebud
Fort Thompson Fort Yates
Wagner
Flandreau
RESERVATIONS
CAPITALS
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