1.  What animals do you see in the picture?

2.  What country do you think the boy is from?  Why do you think that?

3.  Do you see something funny in the picture?  Tell us some other thing you see in the picture?

    This book is about a boy named Ramón who lives in Mexico, and he speaks Spanish. The author uses the farm animal characters to introduce children to a few Spanish words in which Ramón uses in his everyday life on his family farm.  Ramón does his chores around the farm.  Each animal on the farm is a big task for Ramón to handle, but in the end he is satisfied.  Let’s read the story On Ramón’s Farm to see what these farm animals do everyday on the family farm that keeps Ramón’s life interesting.

These are the five students that I worked with during this lesson.        These two students are thinking hard about which animal they are going to draw.
I was helping them draw their favorite animal from the book.

               
She thinks she is going to get an idea from him.                                             This is the book that I read for the lesson.

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Lesson Title Global Diversity Through Literature and Technology

General Information
Name: Kaye Gamble
School/Mentor Teacher: Cook County Primary/Dana Bennett
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)
Date Taught: March 23, 2007
Total Duration of Lesson:  55 minutes. (This lesson can be presented in 2 sessions)

Primary Learning Outcomes (PLO)
The primary learning outcomes to be achieved with this lesson include:
A. Student will be able to use the mouse while operating the computer
B.  Student will be able to respond to questions about  diverse cultures.
C.  Student will listen to a children’s story to learn about another culture
D.  Student will work cooperatively in small group to make a story picture account of events in the story.

Related GPS Standards
A. Grade: K
Technology Integration
Strand: Basic Skills
5 Topic: Basic Skills
Standard: Operates basic technology tools and applications.

B,C, D Grade: K
Social Studies Georgia Performance Standard
Geographic Understandings
SSKG1: The student will describe American culture by explaining diverse community and family celebrations and customs (this also includes the cultures represented by children from other countries represented in children’s literature and those who are enrolled in our schools.
 
Materials and Equipment
1. Computer with Internet connection
2. My Global Diversity Web Page  http://www.valdosta.edu/~akgamble/global.html
3.  Globe
4. Crayons
5. Paper for individual drawings

Teacher will also need
1. Pencil and paper (to make notes for assessment and reflections
2. Copy of lesson rubric 1 for each group member.  (see rubric below)

Technology Connection
Technologies that will be used in this lesson include: computer with Internet connection, a picture developed using a computer drawing program, and a designed website that includes a computer painted picture related to the book On Ramón’s Farm .

Procedure:
Part I Step One: Introduction
1. Work with a small group of students (3-5).  NO LESS THAN 3 STUDENTS
Introduction questions.

-         Show the children the globe or the map. Ask them

          questions such as:

• What is this called?
• What colors do you see on it?
• What does the blue represent?  Tell them that the big blue areas are oceans and the small ones are lakes, or rivers, etc.
  
  
• What do these many colors represent?
• Can anyone point to our country; to Georgia"
  
  

We are going to learn about a boy named Ramón who lived in Mexico.

• Does anyone know where Mexico is?
  
  
• Do you think Mexico is far away or close to Georgia?

-The teacher points to the place on the map and then  asks a child to point to Georgia. 

·         Do you have to go over water to get from Georgia to Mexico?

(Estimated time 10 minutes)

Step Two:

Teaching the PLO Language Experience Activity
1. Go to the computer and your Lesson 1 Global Diversity Activity website at http://www.valdosta.edu/~akgamble/global.html

Students should be grouped around the computer with you so they can see the screen, and have access to using the mouse
2.  Let children take turns pointing to things in your picture.  They can also try to point to certain words on the screen.
3   Read each question  under the Paint drawing  Ask them to respond to your questions 
4   Have a large piece of chart paper or separate sheets with each question, already prepared with the questions listed with spaces to write the children’s responses underneath.
5. As each child responds to the questions, write exactly what they are saying when they make their responses.
Write students’ names next to each response.

a. What animals do you see in the picture?

b. What country do you think the boy is from?  Why do you think that?

c. Do you see something funny in the picture?  Tell us some other thing you see in the picture?

Part 2
1.  Read the paragraph under the questions to the children.  Then show them the book
2.   Do a BRIEF picture walk and talk about the book
2.  The title of the book that I will be reading is On Ramón’s Farm.  This book is written by: Campbell Geeslin and is Illustrated by: Petra Mathers.

Tell them the title, author, illustrator of the book.
3.  Read the story to the children.
(10-15 minutes)

Closure:
1. After you read the story, review their responses made prior to reading them the story and compare their responses with the actual events in the story. 
2. Ask them to tell you some things they learned from the story.
3.  Give the students crayons, and let them draw and color a picture of their favorite farm animal from the book.  Have them write sentences about their animal and their picture.
4 .  Exhibit children's work or let them show the things they made to others.  (Take Pictures)

(Estimated time 15 minutes)

EVALUATION A:
Rubric:  Use this chart to evaluate each student

(Lesson Plan Outline developed by Dr. Heath Spring, 2007)