| Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ |
| Thirteen Moons on Turtles Back |
| NDNAEU 1 “Sacred Relatives”, NDNAEU 2 “Learning & Storytelling”, NDNAEU 7 “Native Identity” |
| Compelling Question | How can you keep track of time if you don’t have a watch or calendar? |
| Standards and Practices | ND Social Studies Standards: H.K_2.1 Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present. G.K_2.1 Describe how the physical environment affects people and how people affect the physical environment. |
| Staging the Question | How did early Indigenous people keep track of time? |
| Supporting Question 1 | Supporting Question 2 | Supporting Question 3 |
| Read the book, Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back by Joseph Bruchac. What does each legend have in common? | Can you locate the geographical region of each “moon” tribe based upon clues within the legend? | Why did some Native people use a turtle’s back as a calendar? |
| Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task |
| Using a Venn diagram, choose two legends and list differences in each legend plus commonalities. | Find the geographical location of three of the legends using clues held within the legend. Use a search engine to confirm your hunch and bookmark the website or copy and paste the link into a document. | Read “A Note About This Book” on the last page of Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back. Using a search engine, find other moon legends or names that may not have been listed in Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back. Write a short summary about one of the stories that you find using your own words or make a list of other moon names and state the tribe. |
| Featured Sources | Featured Sources | Featured Sources |
| https://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Moons-Turtles-Back-American/dp/0698115848/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26XGWENG6ER8&dchild=1&keywords=thirteen+moons+on+turtles+back&qid=1595963478&sprefix=thirteen+moo%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-1 | None | https://www.wwu.edu/planetarium/a101/indianmoons.shtml#Sioux |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Supported Claim (written/spoken) or Demonstration of Process (project-based) | Which moons legend originated in North Dakota? State the legend and support your reasoning with facts. |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Extension | Create a calendar using symbols from the thirteen moons listed in Joseph Bruchac’s book. |
| Taking Informed Action / Real World Application | Compare and contrast the Indigenous moon names to the current lunar calendar. https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/ |
