Lesson 2
Grade Level: 3-4 Learning Goal/Objectives:
Essential Questions: Students will be questioned and answering these questions. 1. What kind of questions I am asking? 2. Why some of the questions are very similar, but some questions are different? 3. How can I analyzing these questions and put them into groups? 4. What should I name these groups of question? 5. Is there a word/term to name my group? 6. How does children from difference country/culture look like? NCSS & NY State standards: NCSS Thematic Standards for culture and cultural diversity: · Comparing different factors of culture by letting students grouping the similar questions. · Analyzing the ways that a people’s cultural ideas and actions influence them. · Helping them interpret pattern of their peers’ preference. NYS: · The location of world communities. I will use pictures/videos of children from difference country and culture to identify the location of their community on the world map. · Introduce different country/culture beliefs, customs, and traditions. Materials: Color Markers Worksheets World Map Children of the world pictures Children of the world videos Description of activities: · Students will have their “Questions to ask your partner” sheet. · Students will have their one personal/cultural item and questions ready for class. · I will ask one student to read out loud of the question he/she has written down. And I will write them down on the board. · After I finished all the writings. I will ask students;” Do you find out that some questions seems like they are asking the similar questions. Can you find out what questions seems like they are asking the similar questions? · Student will come up to circle the questions they think are asking the similar questions. They will use different colors of markers. One color of marker represents one type of question. · After 2 to 3 students had marked on the board. I will go over about how they circled questions with the students together. · I will start with the first student’s circles. And ask students if they think there are other similar questions should be included in a group. · After students and me circled two groups of questions. I will ask them:” how do you think about this group of question, why they are put together as a group?” · I will guide students to “label” the group of questions. For example, one group of questions is asking about this student’s interest. I will label this group as “Interest”. Other groups are: Personality, Preference, Habit, Routine, Traditions, Usability …(all labels are describing this student and their cultural item’s relationships/connection. In which it describes the ways students are living, in another words it describes their unique culture. I will not explicitly teach these attributes called culture) · They will use their own words to name their question group. · I will make sure and ask if all of them are understand what am I doing here. Introduction to next class and homework: · Showing children of the world pictures. And I will guide them identify where these children come from on the map. Introduce briefly about their beliefs, customs, and traditions. Helping students tot relate and acknowledge different cultures. · Showing students “world cultures picture and video” · Give question about the “world cultures picture and video”. They will fill the questions and turn in next class as their homework. Assessment: · I will let them do the same thing on their questions. Circle out questions, grouping them, and labeling them. I will provide them with labels. · I will give them 20 minutes in class to finish this activity and turn in to me. · If some of them still couldn’t finish, I will let them bring to home and finish labeling and hand to me next class. |
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