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Compelling question
Is money the only way of obtaining what individuals need?
Standards & practices
OSEU 7.3 Students will identify ways that the Oceti Sakowin values provide resiliency in keeping the
Oceti Sakowin way of life.
5.E.1.2 Explain the role of money as a means of trade between individuals and/or groups.
5.E.5.1 Describe the role of trading in early US History.
Staging the question
How do you get what you need or want? What if you didn’t have any money?
Supporting inquiries
Supporting question 1
How our economy today is compared to historical
economies?
Formative performance task
Students will engage in the Bartering System and play
the game Would You Survive? Afterwards, the
students will create a Venn diagram to compare and
contrast bartering/trade to how they get items of need
today.
Featured sources
Before the activities, watch “Moccasin Economy” by
Lowell Amiotte
http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu-seven-lowell-
amiotte-moccasin-economy /
Bartering – A system of exchange
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3589
Would You Survive? game
http://cf.ltkcdn.net/kids/files/882-Bartering-Game.pdf
Supporting question 2
How did the United States economy develop?
Formative performance task
(**This task could be the first of two from before the Civil
War and after the Civil War)
Students will create a non-traditional timeline of the US
economy development. They will use the following sources,
plus others to be able to create their timelines. Examples:
Timeline App http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-
resources/student-interactives/timeline-30007.html
3-D Version
Featured sources
The Fur Trade: Our People's story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HHGmxQ2C4w
The Red Sash by Jean E. Pendziwol
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Sash-Jean-
Pendziwol/dp/088899589X
The Fur Trade Game
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Fur-
Trade-Game-1181608
War of 1812 Time of Major Events
http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/timeline /
War of 1812
http://www.american-historama.org/1801-1828-
evolution/facts-about-war-of-1812.htm
US History War of 1812
http://www.ducksters.com/history/us 1800s/war of 1812.
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Summative performance task · Argument
Ask students to think, pair, and share this question. Does a society need to have
money or something in the place of money to be able to prosper?
Extension
Students will create their own trade game (board game, card game, and app). They
must establish the setting, characters, time frame, currency type, and situations in
which the characters have to trade.
Taking informed action
Students will start their own “trading” center where the school/community may bring in usable
items they do use or need and donate it or trade it with something they could use.
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“Trade” | OSEU 7: Way of Life & Development
Compelling
Question
Is money the only way of obtaining what individuals need?
Standards and
Practices
OSEU 7.3 Students will identify ways that the Oceti Sakowin values provide resiliency in keeping the
Oceti Sakowin way of life.
5.E.1.2 Explain the role of money as a means of trade between individuals and/or groups.
5.E.5.1 Describe the role of trading in early US History.
Staging the
Question
How do you get what you need or want? What if you didn’t have any money?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
How our economy today is compared to historical
economies?
How did the United States economy develop?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Students will engage in the Bartering System and play
the game Would You Survive? Afterwards, the
students will create a Venn diagram to compare and
contrast bartering/trade to how they get items of need
today.
(**This task could be the first of two from before the Civil
War and after the Civil War)
Students will create a non-traditional timeline of the US
economy development. They will use the following sources,
plus others to be able to create their timelines. Examples:
Timeline App http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-
resources/student-interactives/timeline-30007.html
3-D Version
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Before the activities, watch “Moccasin Economy” by
Lowell Amiotte
http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu-seven-lowell-
amiotte-moccasin-economy /
Bartering – A system of exchange
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3589
Would You Survive? game
http://cf.ltkcdn.net/kids/files/882-Bartering-Game.pdf
The Fur Trade: Our People's story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HHGmxQ2C4w
The Red Sash by Jean E. Pendziwol
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Sash-Jean-
Pendziwol/dp/088899589X
The Fur Trade Game
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Fur-
Trade-Game-1181608
War of 1812 Time of Major Events
http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/timeline /
War of 1812
http://www.american-historama.org/1801-1828-
evolution/facts-about-war-of-1812.htm
US History War of 1812
http://www.ducksters.com/history/us_1800s/war_of_1812.
php
Summative
Performance
Task
Argument
Ask students to think, pair, and share this question. Does a society need to have
money or something in the place of money to be able to prosper?
Extension
Students will create their own trade game (board game, card game, and app). They
must establish the setting, characters, time frame, currency type, and situations in
which the characters have to trade.
Taking Informed
Action
Students will start their own “trading” center where the school/community may bring in usable
items they do use or need and donate it or trade it with something they could use.