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Learning About Our World Through Literature
and Technology
Title of Lesson
Why the Sky is Far Away
General
Information
Name: Katherine S. Holmes
School/Mentor Teacher: Ruskin Elementary, Mrs. Tonya Richardson
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
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/~ksholmes/global.html
3. Map or globe
4. Colored markers, crayons
5. Chart Paper
6. Three sheets of white paper for drawing and
coloring and three paper grocery bags.
I as the teacher will 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, Why the Sky is Far Away.
Procedure:
Part I Step One: Introduction
1. I will be working with a group of three students.
2. I will start out by
showing the children the globe or the map. I
will then ask them,
What is
this called?
What colors do you see on it?
What does the blue
represent? I will tell them that the big blue areas are
oceans and the small ones are lakes, or rivers, etc. I will then continue on by asking what do
these many colors represent?
Can anyone point to our
country, to Georgia"? After asking the students questions, I will
tell them that we are going to learn about a person
who lived in Nigeria. After informing them of this, I will ask does
anyone know where Nigeria
is.
I will then point to Nigeria on the map and then asks
one of the students to point to Georgia. After
showing them where the country of Nigeria is, I will then asks do you
think Nigeria is far away from Georgia and also do you have go over
water to get to this place from our place?
(Estimated time 10 minutes)
Step Two: Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes Language
Experience Activity
Paint Picture Activity
1. Go to the computer and your Lesson 1 Global Diversity Activity
website at http://www.valdosta.edu/~ksholmes/lesson1.html. My students will be grouped around the computer
with me so they can see the screen, and have access to using the mouse. I will pull up my global diversity page that
has my paint picture on it.
2. I will then let the students take turns pointing to things in
my paint picture.
3. I will then read each question under the Paint
drawing and then have them try to predict the answer.
4. I will 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, I will then
write exactly what they are saying when they make their prediction
responses. I will also write the students’
names next to each response.
Listed here are my three
questions.
a. What do you think the woman is reaching for?
b. Can you describe the way the woman is dressed?
c. What time of day do you think it is?
Part 2
1.
I will read the paragraph under the picture to the students. The paragraph states, This is a story about a country that never
had to worry about food. They didn't have to sow crops or harvest
them. However; the people would soon learn that it would not last
long. It is thru a woman's disobedience to the king and the god's
that all that would soon change.
I will then show the
students the book, Why the Sky is Far Away.
2. I will do a brief picture walk and talk about the book. Through this, the children will be able to see
the pictures and get an idea of what the book may be about. 2.
I will tell the students that the title of the book is Why
the Sky is Far Away. I will also tell
them that the story was retold by Mary-Joan Gerson and it was
illustrated by Carla Golembe.
3. I will then read the story to the students.
(10-15 minutes)
Closure:
1. After I have read the story, I will review their responses made
prior to me reading them the story and compare their responses with the
actual events in the story.
2. I will then ask them to tell me some things they learned from the
story.
3. Next, I will give the students markers or crayons, and let them
color and add words or pictures on sheets of white paper that they
learned about in the story on the chart paper.
4. The last activity that they will do is create an outfit out of
paper grocery bags. In the story, the
student’s will recall that there was a festival that took place. It is here that they will get a chance to
create an outfit that they might have wore to the festival if they
could have.
5. Finally, I will exhibit the children's work or
let them show the things they made to others.
(Estimated time 15 minutes)
EVALUATION A:
Rubric: Use this chart to evaluate each student
Copy the rubric below (1 per group member)
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