Lesson Plan #4 in Microsoft Word Lesson Plan #4 in Microsoft Word
Lesson #4
Lesson Title: Introduction to Indigenous Worldviews
Grade/Subject: High School/US History Length: 2 45-minute periods
Objectives: A.12.9: Identify and analyze cultural factors, such as human needs, values, ideals, and public policies that influence the design of places such as an urban center,
an industrial park, a public project, or a planned neighborhood.
A.12.13: Give examples and analyze conflict and cooperation in the establishment of cultural regions and political boundaries
E.8.10: Explain how language, art, music, beliefs, and other components of culture can further global understanding or cause misunderstanding.
E.12.4: Analyze the role of economic, political, educational, familial, and religious institutions as agents of both continuity and change, cite current and past examples.
E.12.5: Describe the ways cultural and social groups are defined and how they change over time.
Materials:
Video, Lesson Worldview, Rice (00:05:25min)
Video, Menominee Tribal Enterprises, In Wisconsin, WPT (00:04:48min)
Video, LCO Tribal Youth Media Project: WLCO Water Story (00:07:30min)
Article, Thanksgiving, Loew & Rolo
Handout, Questions and Answers About American Indians in Wisconsin (pp. 18-21, 23-25) in American Indian Studies Packet
Lesson Plan 4 Worldview Terms Sheet
Lesson Plan 4 Worldview Terms Sheet Rubric
Lesson Plan 4 Worldview Concept Map
Lesson Plan 4 Worldview Concept Map Rubric
Procedure:
Opening- “How do we manage natural resources and what does our management say about our how we view the world and society?”
Say: “What natural resources exist in Wisconsin, and how do
people use these resources for themselves, their communities, and their societies?”
Say: The First Americans used the resource base of the Great Lakes for 12,000 years, and possibly longer, as we mentioned in the Introduction. We are
going to explore how people use the resources in the environments around them, and in turn this will help us see how people view the world around
them—what they think is important and what values guide them in making decisions around resource use.
First it’s important to define some key terms that we will use throughout this unit. It is important to remember that these terms will be found through
out our use of discussion, video, and other forms of media.
Development-
Say: In order to understand how different views of the world lead to different impacts on the environment, let’s first do an overview of our understanding
of American Indians in Wisconsin.
--Hand out reading: Questions and Answers About American Indians in Wisconsin (pp. 18-21, 23-25) from American Indian Studies DPI Packet
Discuss/answer questions about the reading.
Say: We are going to form small groups to research how American Indians used the legal framework of American society to protect
the world views of the many diverse Indigenous nations. In order to complete the terms sheet each group will then present sections of
the research at the end of the unit tomorrow.
--Handout Lesson 4 Terms Sheet
--Handout Lesson 4 Terms Sheet Rubric
--Show video clip “Menominee Tribal Enterprises”
Concepts to think about while watching:
Say: To further our understanding of the diverse worldviews of the 562 Indigenous Nations, we will look at two
more of Wisconsin’s Indian Nations, the Ho-Chunk and the Lac Courte Orielles Ojibwe (La COORT OH-RAY OH-JIB- WAY).
First we will start with a Ho-Chunk community member.
--Show video clip “Lesson Worldview Rice”
Concepts to think about while watching:
Say: And now we will see a video created by high school students at the Lac Courte Orielles Ojibwe Nation:
--Show video clip “LCO Tribal Youth Media Project: WLCO Water Story”
Concepts to think about while watching:
Closure- --Handout Lesson 4 Worldview Concept Map exercise.
-- Handout Lesson 4 Worldview Concept Map Rubric
1. Have small groups construct a concept map in response on the prompt:
“Small groups will be asked to share your concept maps, and we want each group to
explain in your own way, how your group’s ‘world view’ guided the creation of your map?”
2. Students present sections of Lesson 4 Terms Sheet
Needed Ancillary Materials
1. Janice Rice Video 
6. Worldview Terms Sheet
2. Menominee Tribal Enterprises Video 7. Worldview Rubric 
3. LCO Tribal Youth Media Project: Water Story 8. Worldview Concept Map
4. Thanksgiving Article - Wisconsin State Journal 9. Concept Map Rubric
5. Questions and Answers About American Indians (pg. 18-21, 23-25) 
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