Lesson Title Global Diversity Through Literature and Technology
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 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/~
2. Colored markers, crayons, and chart paper
3.  Plain white paper for individual drawings (optional)
4. Pencil and paper (to make notes for lesson plan assessment and reflections)
5. Copy of lesson rubric for each group member.

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________________

Procedure:
Part I Step One: Introduction
1. Work with a small group of students (2-5).  Tell students that today you are going to read them a special book (list title of book, author, and illustrator) that is about (tell who or what your selected book is about), and the story takes place in (name of country of your multicultural book) country.   
2. Ask students an introduction questions. (Introduction questions are for the teacher, to find out about the  students' previous knowledge of the subject content.
Example:
Today we are going to study about (name of country of your multicultural book) country. 
List of Introductory Questions:

a..

b.

(Estimated time 10 minutes)
Step Two: Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes  Language Experience Activity
1. Go to the computer and your Global Diversity Activity website at http://www.valdosta.edu/~username/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 predict the answer   
4   Have a large piece of chart paper already prepared with the questions listed with spaces to write responses underneath each.
5. As each child responds to the questions, write exactly what they are saying when they make their prediction responses.
Write students’ names next to each response.
Questions:
Open with a question like:

Can you tell me something that you know about (name of country (or about the _______?
Read your prediction questions.

1.
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3.

Part 2

Read the story to the children.

Closure:
After you read the story, review the chart and compare their responses with the actual events in the story.  Ask them to tell you some things they learned from the story.
Give the students markers or crayons, and let them color and add words or pictures that  they learned about in the story on the chart paper.

OR:  Let them draw or write on their own papers reflecting what they learned.  

Describe the activity that you have decided to do.
Hang up the completed language experience chart in the classroom.
(Estimated time 15 minutes)

EVALUATIONA:
Rubric:  Do one for each student in the group