Global Diversity
Through Literature Activity
1 Paint Activity
2 Learning About the Culture
3 Getting Information from Graphs
4 Children's Work
5 Lesson Plan 1
6 Lesson Plan 2
Asia
The Green Frogs
A Korean Folktale
Retold and Illustrated by Yumi Heo
Two
little frogs live at home with their mother. They never obey
her. Everything she tells them to do, they do the opposite.
If she tells them to be quiet, they croak as loud as they can. If
she tells them to not get dirty, they make sure that they are covered
in dirt from head to toe. Their mother's dying wish is to be
buried in the shade beside the stream. In the end, their
disobedience cause a major problem. What do you think the major
problem will be?
Why
is it a good idea to obey your parents?
What do you think will happen at the end of the story?
What do you think will happen at the end of the story?
Learning About the Culture
Integrating Math and Science
Getting Information from Graphs
Map Of Korea
Children's Work
Lesson Plan 1
________________________
Mentor Teacher's Signature
March 24,2006____________
Date
Lesson I: Learning With Technology About Our World
Title of Lesson: Exploring Korea
General Information
Name: Ashley Paramore
School/Mentor Teacher: Worth County Primary School/ Mrs. Wendy Lumpkin
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)
Date Taught: March 28, 2006
Total Duration of Lesson: 55 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 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.
Two little frogs live at home with their mother. They never obey her. Everything she tells them to do, they do the opposite. If she tells them to be quiet, they croak as loud as they can. If she tells them to not get dirty, they make sure that they are covered in dirt from head to toe. Their mother’s dying wish is to be buried in the shade beside the stream. In the end, their disobedience causes a major problem. What do you think the major problem may be?
a. Why is it a good idea to obey your parents?
b. What do you think will happen at the end of the story?
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Reading the story:
Introduction to story:
1. The title of the book is: The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale Retold and Illustrated
by Yumi Heo
Look at each picture and discuss what is going on in that picture.
Ask some questions or point out words or objects:
Vocabulary: obey, croak, stream, chung-gaeguri
a. What do you think a lotus pond is?
b. What is your favorite food to eat for breakfast?
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 Korea, 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 2
Clothing: How
are the clothes that Koreans wear different from the
clothes that we wear?
Food: What types of food do Koreans eat?
Transportation: What are some of the ways that people travel in Korea?
Cultural Diversity Activity
for Grades 3-5Food: What types of food do Koreans eat?
Transportation: What are some of the ways that people travel in Korea?
Integrating Math and Science
Getting Information from Graphs
Korea is located in Asia. It
is located east of the United States. During the summer, the
temperatures can reach as high as 95 degrees fahrenheit. During
the winter, the temperature drops as low as 7 degrees
fahrenheit. Korea has the most pleasent weather during Spring and
Autumn. There is a lot of rainfall in Korea, but most of the rain
falls during the summer between the months of June and September.
Seoul, Korea is an exciting place to visit. It is filled with
many cultural sights.
1.) What is precipitation?
2.) Is the weather in Korea similar to our weather?
3.) Does it rain more in January or July?
4.) Which month is hotter? January or July?
5.) Which month has the coldest temperature?
1.) What is precipitation?
2.) Is the weather in Korea similar to our weather?
3.) Does it rain more in January or July?
4.) Which month is hotter? January or July?
5.) Which month has the coldest temperature?
Map Of Korea
Children's Work
Lesson Plan 1
________________________
Mentor Teacher's Signature
March 24,2006____________
Date
Learning About Our World
Through Literature and Technology
Exploring Korea
Exploring Korea
Lesson I: Learning With Technology About Our World
Title of Lesson: Exploring Korea
General Information
Name: Ashley Paramore
School/Mentor Teacher: Worth County Primary School/ Mrs. Wendy Lumpkin
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)
Date Taught: March 28, 2006
Total Duration of Lesson: 55 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 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.
Two little frogs live at home with their mother. They never obey her. Everything she tells them to do, they do the opposite. If she tells them to be quiet, they croak as loud as they can. If she tells them to not get dirty, they make sure that they are covered in dirt from head to toe. Their mother’s dying wish is to be buried in the shade beside the stream. In the end, their disobedience causes a major problem. What do you think the major problem may be?
a. Why is it a good idea to obey your parents?
b. What do you think will happen at the end of the story?
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Reading the story:
Introduction to story:
1. The title of the book is: The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale Retold and Illustrated
by Yumi Heo
Look at each picture and discuss what is going on in that picture.
Ask some questions or point out words or objects:
Vocabulary: obey, croak, stream, chung-gaeguri
a. What do you think a lotus pond is?
b. What is your favorite food to eat for breakfast?
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 Korea, 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:
| Level 3 | Level 2 |
Level 1 |
| Student is able to use the mouse
to control the computer with no or little assistance. |
Student is able to use the mouse
to control the computer with much assistance. |
Student is not able to use the
mouse to control the computer. |
| Student responded
with accuracy to all the questions about the culture and was able to draw or write words accurately that related to the story. |
Student responded with accuracy
to some the questions about the culture and was able to draw or write words accurately that related to the story. |
Student was unable to respond
with accuracy to questions about the culture, and did not draw pictures that accurately represented the story. |
Lesson Plan 2
Learning About Our World
Through Literature and Technology
Exploring Korea
Exploring Korea
________________________
Mentor Teacher's Signature
March 30, 2006___________
Date
Lesson II: Learning About Our World Through Literature and Technology
Title of Lesson: Exploring Korea
General Information
Name: Ashley Paramore
School/Mentor Teacher: Worth County Primary School/ Mrs. Wendy Lumpkin
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)
Date Taught:
Total Duration of Lesson: 55 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 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 your Global Diversity Graphic Organizer
http://www.stmnftsc.melb.catholic.edu.au/kidseyes/korea/index.htm
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Food/index.cfm
http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/seoul/transportation_in_seoul.htm
2. Multicultural children’s book:
Heo, Yumi. (1996). The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
3. Colored markers, crayons, and chart paper
4. Paper or props related to the multicultural story that you read in lesson I
5 Markers, crayons, points, etc. You can also use the PAINT program if there is time for each student to create a PAINT picture. (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, The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale
Talk about the value of obeying parents in Korea.
Talk about the types of food eaten in Korea.
Talk about the clothes that are worn in Korea.
(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:
1. How are the clothes that Koreans wear different from the clothes that we wear? Click on the icon of clothing to help you answer the question. By clicking on the icon, it will carry you to the website www.stmnftsc.melb.catholic.edu.au/kidseyes/korea/index.htm
2. What types of food do Koreans eat? Click on the icon of food to help you answer the question. By clicking on the icon, it will carry you to the website http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Food/index.cfm
3. What are some of the ways that people travel in Korea? Click on the icon of a car to help you answer the question. By clicking on the icon, it will carry you to the website http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/seoul/transportation_in_seoul.htm
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 and using the drawing program.
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
| Level 3 |
Level 2 |
Level 1 |
| Student is able to use the mouse
to control the computer with no or little assistance. |
Student is able to use the mouse
to control the computer with much assistance. |
Student is not able to use the
mouse to control the computer. |
| Student responded with accuracy
to two of the critical thinking questions about the story |
Student responded with accuracy
to one of the critical thinking questions about the story |
Student responded with accuracy
to none of the critical thinking questions about the story |
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