Lesson Plan I

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  Learning About Our World Through Literature and Technology 
Morality Lessons from Zimbabwe  

 Lesson I - Learning With Technology About Our World  
Morality Lessons from Zimbabwe

General Information
Name:
School/Mentor Teacher:
Grade Level:
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)
Date Taught:
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 to find information related to a multicultural children’s story.
B. Students will listen to a story about another culture.

C  Students will work cooperatively in small group to make a story picture about things they learned from the story.

Related QCC & GPS Standards
A. Grade: K
Technology Integration
Strand: Basic Skills 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 computer painted picture and links to cultural websites that represent the country in multicultural literature book.  Elementary students will use computers to view website developed for multicultural literature book.

Part One: PAINT PICTURE ACTIVITY
1. Work with a small group of students (2-5).  Show students the PAINT picture on your page.

Ask the children to use the mouse to point to various objects in the picture and tell them to describe them or name them.

Read the text under the picture then read the questions.  Write their responses individually on a large sheet of chart paper that also has the questions on it.

            Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters is a tale from Zimbabwe.  Zimbabwe is a country in Africa.  The names in the book are chosen from the Shona language. It is about a man named Mufaro who had two extremely beautiful daughters.  Manyara is always mean and hateful.  Nyasha is the kindest girl in the entire village.  She is gentle with not only villagers, but also animals.  One day a message is delivered that the king is searching for a wife.  Manyara will try any trick to win the title of queen.

a. After reading the paragraph and looking at the illustration, whom do you think the characters in the story are?

b. Which daughter do you think the king will pick for a wife?  Which one would you pick?

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Reading the story:

Introduction to story:

1   Read the title of the book, author, illustrator, and do a picture walk with the students

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale written and illustrated by John Steptoe

            Talk with the students about the cover illustrations and few more illustrations from the book.  Ask them questions about the illustrations.

Sample Questions:

a. Does the landscape look different in Zimbabwe than it does where we live?

b. What is the girl on the cover doing?  How do you think she feels?

c. Does the girl dress like we usually do?

Read the story to the children

Ask the children to decorate or enhance the chart picture with their own words or pictures related to the story.

Assessment of the Primary Learning Outcomes
Now that we have visited my website, and listened to a story about Mufaro’s beautiful daughters, who lived in Zimbabwe, tell us what you wrote or drew on the chart paper from the story and why you  chose to put it on the page.

Rubric:

Lesson Plan II
Learning About Our World Through Literature and  Technology   
Title of Lesson 
Culture of Zimbabwe  

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Lesson II - Learning About Our World Through Literature and  Technology   
Culture of Zimbabwe  

General Information

Name:
School/Mentor Teacher:
Grade Level:
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)
Date Taught:
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 a diverse cultures and languages other than English from the cultures.

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

B. 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 who are enrolled in our schools, whose native language is other than English)

Materials and Equipment
1. Computer with Internet connection set to www.valdosta.edu/~alhughes/global
2. The following websites: http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/country_information.php?Pays=ZIM
http://www.geographia.com/zimbabwe/
http://www.africanet.com/africanet/country/zimbabwe/default.htm
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sna
3. Steptoe, J. (1987).  Mufaro’s beautiful daughters.  New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books.
4. Colored markers, crayons, plain art paper, and chart paper
5  Markers, crayons, points, etc. (Students’ work will be scanned or saved and will be posted on your Global Diversity page.)

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 computer painted picture and links to cultural websites that represent the country in multicultural literature book.  Elementary students will use computers to view website developed for multicultural literature book.

Step One Introduction
Show students the graphic organizer and talk about your country and also how it relates to the story you read them earlier

1. Students will visit a website on the Country of Zimbabwe. http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/country_information.php?Pays=ZIM  They will use the site to find the answer to the following questions:

            1.  Look at the climate graph.  Which months are the driest months in Zimbabwe?

            2.  Which months are the wettest?

2. Students will visit a website on the geography and wildlife of Zimbabwe. http://www.geographia.com/zimbabwe/ They will use the website to answer the following questions:

            1.  What landform is a major tourist attraction in Zimbabwe?

            2.  Name two animals that live in Zimbabwe.

3.  Students will visit a website on the products and economy of Zimbabwe. http://www.africanet.com/africanet/country/zimbabwe/default.htm They will use the website to answer the following questions:

            1. Name two products that are mined in Zimbabwe.

            2. Name two agricultural products that are important in Zimbabwe.

4.  Students will visit a website on the language of Zimbabwe. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sna They will use the website to answer the following question:

            1. How many people speak the Shona language?

             (Estimated Time 15 minutes)
 
Step Two: Teaching the Primary Learning Outcome
Ask the students to take turns reading the questions for each web site and ask them to tell you what they see or to provide the information from the questions:

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Step Three: Assessment
a. Give students props or paper, and ask them to write words or draw pictures that relate to what they learned from going through the web sites.

b. Ask them to describe and tell what they drew or wrote.

(Estimated Time: 15 minutes)

Assessment the Primary Learning Outcomes
A. Technology Integration
Student will be assessed through observation while using the mouse to control the computer.
B. Social Studies
Student will be assessed through answers to questions, illustrations, and discussions about diverse cultures.

(Estimated Time:  15 minutes)

Closure
Read student responses together, or ask each student to read or tell what they drew on the chart
You will need to save the students’ pictures and answers as evidence for your lesson plan learning goals.  Later you will scan the students’ papers to place in your ECE Portfolio.  You will also share your chart in class when you present your activity