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This unit was created from conversations with the Eagle Butte Middle School 7th grade team.

Cultural Relevance – Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings

Oceti Sakowin Essential Understanding 1: Land and Environment

Standard 1.4 – Identify and explain contemporary environmental issues facing the Oceti Sakowin lands.

Standard 1.5 – Examine strategies the tribal government and other tribal leaders are taking to improve lands and natural gifts of Oceti Sakowin people.

Lesson Objectives–

Students will learn their impact on the earth through the collection of data.

Students will be able to interpret and analyze data.

Students will be able to demonstrate this data through graphical representation.

Students will be able to demonstrate compassion and respect for the earth through their graphical representations.

Students will construct an argument using data.

Standard

7.SP.A Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population.

1. Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.

2. Use data from a random sample to draw inferences about a population with an unknown characteristic of interest. Generate multiple samples (or simulated samples) of the same size to gauge the variation in estimates or predictions. For example, estimate the mean word length in a book by randomly sampling words from the book; predict the winner of a school election based on randomly sampled survey data. Gauge how far off the estimate or prediction might be.

Standards for review

7.G.B Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area and volume.

6. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.

Math Practices

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

Students will use data to defend their reasoning in a sustainability plan.

Model with mathematics.

Students will construct their own data representation.

Principles of Learning-

Context and Content Relationships-

This principle is grounded in storytelling. Throughout this lesson, students are asked to analyze and interpret stories and then to tell stories through data. At the end of most days, students are asked to share what they learned for the day orally to the class.

Recognition of Personal Sovereignty-

At the close of the lesson students will create their own data display (this can also be done in pairs). Students have their own choice in displaying their data to show understanding.

Community-Oriented Learning-

Throughout this lesson students are asked to work in small teams or with a partner. In this lesson, we need the experience of everyone in the room to for success. Students are asked to share investigations and what they have learned to benefit all learners in the class.