| Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ |
| Water Protectors |
| NDNAEU 1 “Sacred Relatives”, NDNAEU 5 “Tribal Policies, Treaties and Sovereignty”, NDNAEU 6 “Native Contributions” |
| Compelling Question | Why is water important to mankind? |
| Standards and Practices | MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment. |
| Staging the Question | Why do Native Americans consider themselves Water Protectors? |
| Supporting Question 1 | Supporting Question 2 |
| How is water being polluted? | What are Native Americans doing to protect water? |
| Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task |
| Student Research Project: Research various water pollution disasters. | Student Project: Research how Native Americans are trying to protect water. |
| Featured Sources | Featured Sources |
National Congress of American Indians, Land and Natural Resources http://www.ncai.org/policy-issues/land-natural-resources/water Oil Spill Impacts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nshSoLw0tdI Grassy Narrows Story of Water Contamination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E06pWtCHIg | Native Americans fight for clean water https://troubledwater.news21.com/native-american-tribes-fight-for-clean-water-and-more-money/ Court orders Dakota crude pipeline shutdown https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/court-orders-dakota-access-pipeline-to-shut-down.html Why is water sacred to Native Americans? https://theconversation.com/why-is-water-sacred-to-native-americans-74732 |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Supported Claim (written/spoken) or Demonstration of Process (project-based) | Students will conduct an experiment to see the effects of oil pollution in water and what happens to plants, animals, people and the entire ecosystem of the polluted water. |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Extension | Invite a Water Protector to come into class to present to students. |
| Taking Informed Action / Real World Application | Students will write a letter to local, state and federal authorities to support the protection of water. Disclaimer: Educators are encouraged to use these lessons as a guide, especially when it comes to capturing standards and required content for their instructional disciplines. Adapt, synthesize, abbreviate, and incorporate are just some of the encouraging words to educators to USE any of the NDNAEU lessons to make them their own. |
