| Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ |
| “Native American Loss of Independence” |
| NDNAEU 5 “Tribal Policies, Treaties and Sovereignty” |
| Compelling Question | How did the construction of Fort Mandan mark the beginning of the end of Native American independence on the northern plains? |
| Standards and Practices | Social Studies ND.6_12.4 Analyze the historical and current events and their impact on the development of North Dakota. ND.6_12.4.2 Analyze European exploration and early settlement of North Dakota and its impact on Native American groups 12.1.2 Explain the human settlement patterns in North Dakota |
| Staging the Question | What did President Jefferson hope Lewis and Clark would accomplish by visiting the Knife River Indian Villages & others? |
| Supporting Question 1 | Supporting Question 2 | Supporting Question 3 |
| How did the Fur Trade promote Euro American expansion and exploitation of the Native Americans? | Identify the purpose of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. | What did Lewis & Clark learn about N.D.? |
| Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task |
| Do a Q & A discussion: 1. How and why did trade develop among the native people? 2. How would you evaluate the balance between the good and the bad that the fur trade brought to native people? | Do a Q &A discussion: 1. What was President Thomas Jefferson’s role concerning the Corps of Discovery? 2. What do you think would have been the fate of the western United States and North Dakota had Jefferson not purchased Louisiana? | Complete the Web quest Quest for Empire on the Northern Plains: Jeffersonian Expansionism & the Corps of Discovery |
| Featured Sources | Featured Sources | Featured Sources |
| Search Results Web results North Dakota Studies/fur-trade | North Dakota Studies Purchase and exploration of Louisiana purchase. Interview with Meriwether Lewis and William Lewis. Lewis and Clark North Dakota Part 3 | http://www.history.nd.gov/exhibits/lewisclark/index.html |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Supported Claim (written/spoken) or Demonstration of Process (project-based) | Critical Thinking Question: Answer the following using the knowledge you have gained from your reading. Image that you had been a resident of one of the villages first visited by Lewis and Clark in October 1804. Would you have been receptive of Lewis and Clark? Defend your answer. |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Extension | Take a field trip to various sites like Fort Union Trading Post, Knife River Indian Villages, and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center to develop an understanding of the development of trade in the upper Northern Plains. |
| Taking Informed Action / Real World Application | Have students debate their positions whether Lewis and Clark brought a decline of Native American independence |
