This is a growing set of lessons developed by our WoLakota staff as we work in various schools modeling culturally responsive classroom practices, embedding the OSEU and the CCSS into lessons, and utilizing various Elder interviews and cultural resources. Most of these lesson pages will include links to a pdf file of the lesson itself, and an embedded version of the Prezi that was constructed for use in the classroom with students. Many of the Prezis will have video embedded within them, so depending upon the speed of your connection and your browser, it may take just a bit for them to fully load. We welcome you to share about your use or adaptations of these resources in the “comments” section at the bottom of each of these pages. Feel free to share these resources and links with anyone who might have a use for them. As always, anything we develop and place on this website is absolutely free!
Elementary Lesson Plans:
- Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (Elementary Story & Environment)
- Rainbow Fish (Elementary Gifts & Interconnectedness)
- We Are Family (Elementary Kinship Terms)
- Grandmother's Beads & The Mixed-Up Chameleon (K-4 Language Arts)
- Winter Count & Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (Elem Lang Arts)
Middle Level Lesson Plans:
- Resource Relationships (Grade 6 Science)
- Reflections on Boarding Schools (Grade 7 Reading)
- Indigenous Expressions: Creating a Didgeridoo (Grade 8 Art)
- Winter Count Lessons (Grade 8, Language Arts & Social Science)
- Giants & Perseverance Lesson (Grade 8 Language Arts)
- Language and Talking Code (Grade 8 Lang Arts & Soc Science)
- The Story of the Giants (7th Grade Reading / Listening)
- Our Relatives the Stars (8th Grade Physical Science / Lakota Star Knowledge)
- Inferences, Beads & Community (7th Grade Reading)
- What's In A Name? (8th Grade Language Arts & Social Science)
- Climate Change, Weather & Unci Maka (6th Grade Science)
- The Freedom Writers & The Dakota Conflict of 1862 (8th Grade Language Arts)
High School Lesson Plans:
- Ancient Pockets of Sunlight Lesson Plan (HS Physical Science)
- Homeostasis & The Medicine Wheel (HS Anatomy & Physiology)
- Picturing Our Lives: Artistic Expression for Our Community (HS Art)