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Lesson Title Global Diversity Through Literature and Technology

General Information
Name: Debra Gillis
School/Mentor Teacher: Barbara Hersey/ West Green Elementary
Grade Level: 1^st Grade
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)
Date Taught: February 23, 2007
Total Duration of Lesson:  45 minutes.

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-1
Technology Integration
Strand: Basic Skills
5 Topic: Basic Skills
Standard: Operates basic technology tools and applications.

B, C, And D Grade: K-1
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

·                 -We will use the active board.
2. My Global Diversity Web Page http://www.valdosta.edu/~dlgillis/global.html

·        3.  Globe
4. Colored markers or crayons
5. paper for individual drawings

6. Sheet of chart paper

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 How My Parents Learned to Eat.   We will also use the active board for this lesson.

Procedure:
Part I Step One: Introduction
1. Work with a small group of students (2-5). 

Introduction questions.
2. Show the children the globe or the map. Ask them questions such as:

What is this called?

What are the lumpy areas?
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? What about to our state- Georgia?"
We are going to learn about a two people in Japan.  One person is actually from our country, and the other person lives is Japan.
Does anyone know where Japan is?
The teacher points to the place on the map and then asks a child to point to Georgia. 
Do you think Japan is far away or near from us in Georgia?
Do you have to go over water to get to this place from our place?

How do you think you can get to Japan from here?

(Estimated time 10 minutes)

Step Two: Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes Language Experience Activity
1. Go to the computer and your Lesson 1 Global Diversity Activity website at http://www.valdosta.edu/~dlgillis/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. Each child will go up to the active board and use the pen to circle something in the picture and tell each of us what it is.

3.   Read each question under the Paint drawing.  Ask them to respond to your questions. 
4   Have a large piece of chart paper 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.
List your 3 questions here
1. Where do you think this story takes place?
2.  What do you think the little girl is doing?
3. Why do you think she has two flags in her home?

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.  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.  Do an activity that relates to the story.  Describe the activity that you will do.

Now I am going to give each student a sheet of paper and have them get out their crayons.  Now I will give them the directions.

Teacher: In the story, the woman and the man were trying to learn how to eat the way the other person ate in their country.  So right now, we are going to pretend like we have to tell someone from Japan how to eat in America.  I want you to write a few sentences telling someone from Japan something about how you eat, or what you eat in America or at your home.  Then at the bottom I want you to draw a picture about what you wrote or a picture from the book.  I am going to write a few words on the board which may help you with your sentences.

Fork            pizza                  cereal

Knife          chicken               napkins

Table           French fries       family

Spoon          ice cream

Closure:  After reviewing each child’s work I will ask each of them to tell me something they learned from the book, either about the book or about Japan.