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Lesson PlanThe lesson plan unit will be presented altogether in the post but has been broken up into differentlessons per session. However, certain aspects of the each session will not change. Theintroduction and task (motivation) will be stated and the overall objectives. After each session Ihave included a short assessment. At the end, you’ll find a more detailed
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assessment thatwould include a rubric for the end product. Make sure to read this over in order to understand myapproach for the project.
Introduction of the project:
Many people like to travel to different places for short periods of time. They use this time to visit, vacation and explore new places. Before they leave, they haveto plan where they are going, how they will get there, what they will do there and how muchmoney they will spend. It’s a lot of work to plan a trip. Many people use travel agents to helpthem. Travel agents are people whose work is to plan all the details of a trip.
Task and explanation of the project
: Many times a travel agent will suggest a place to visitwhen their customer is not sure where he or she wants to go. It’s important that the travel agentknows important facts and history about that place suggested so that the customer is interested.In this project, it will be your job to research and explore one city, country or state to visit. Youmust provide, in your end project, the following: everyday facts (i.e. population, climate,geographical location, etc), a brief history, good locations to visit and why.
Aim/Objective:
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Students will be able to research, using the internet and library resources, informationabout their specific city or country.
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Students will be able to listen to a podcast and take notes.
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Students will be able to use technology to interact and perform daily homework and classassignments.
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Students will be able to orally present their findings.
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Students will be able to creatively construct a powerpoint presentation to display their findings. Students will use their own photographs and pictures off the internet toillustrate.
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Students will be able to work collaboratively in pairs.
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Students will be able to evaluate and provided constructive feedback on the presentationsof their peers.
ESL Standards:Standard # 1:
Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for information andunderstanding.
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Performance Indicators # 2, 5, and 13
Standard # 4:
Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for classroom and socialinteraction.
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Performance Indicators # 1, 7 and 9
Standard # 5:
Students will demonstrate cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
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Performance Indicators # 3 and 6
Prior Knowledge/Motivation:
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In order to encourage discussion. The students will first hear the elements of the projectand the requirements. Next, the teacher will start a discussion on places that the studentshave gone or visited. Also, if the students are from a different country, the teacher mightask about the native countries of the students. The teacher may also ask about famous places around the world. Has a student ever gone to a famous place around the world, or is there a place they would like to go?
SESSION # 1
Procedure:
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As the discussion develops, the teacher will provide a brainstorming web and have thestudents contribute ideas.
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First, the teacher will have the students think of a city or country. The teacher will placethat name in the center of the web.
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Next, the teacher will ask for the students to say anything that comes to mind when theythink of this place (this could be what the weather is like, where is it located, thelanguage that’s spoken there-if it’s a different country, historical places, basicallyanything)
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This will continue to peak interest and also start to give the students an idea of whatinformation they will need to acquire for the project.
Practice:
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Together the class will listen to a podcast. But first there must be an introduction andexplanation:
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The podcast the class will be listening to is called “city podcast” and was created by an elementary class and their teacher. The podcast was created to giveinformation and background about their town where the school is located. In this podcast you will hear many of the things that you will be required to include inyour own project.
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We will listen to it together in class and then it will be available on our blog if youwould likes to listen to it another time later during computer time or when you’reat home.
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As we listen I would like you to pay close attention to the KINDS of informationthat the students provide. Listen so that you can get ideas for your own project. Asyour listening please write down three kinds of information that you find particularly interesting and different.
Assessment:
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After the podcast has been played, have students turn-and-talk with their partner aboutwhat they wrote down. Are they the same, are the different?
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Next have a share out with the whole class. Talk about the aspects that they would like toinclude in their project.
SESSION # 2
Students will now have had a introduction to the project, group practice of coming upwith ideas and brainstorming, and time to listen in on a different kind of presentation thatincluded a lot of the same information they will need to include in their project.
Procedure:
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Today’s lesson will be self exploration of the area the students would like to present on.
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Briefly review the web from the previous lesson, discuss and review the facts andinformation that needs to be included in their report.
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Next, direct them to the class blog where there is a list of resources that will help themfind information on different places around the world.
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They may choose whatever place interests them.
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The teacher will first show the students the blog and how to navigate through it. Theteacher will also show how to post a comment (this will be required in the
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partof today’s lesson).
Practice:
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The following will be displayed on the blog for the students to interact with. As theyexplore, they will be required to fill out a chart that includes brief investigation of three different places. This guarantees that they are not choosing the first place theysee. The chart will ask the location name, what picture or graphic is displayed that isinteresting, and one fact they can easily find about this place.
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Students, in order to get ideas about what city or place you would like toexplore, please visit the following websites.Go to this site:http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Then click on PEOPLE AND PLACESThis will bring you to a page where you can look at pictures of people and places around the world. Anything look interesting to you?
If you didn’t find anything
, go to this sitehttp://kids.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopediaThen click on WORLD FACTBOOK This will open a page with different flags of countries you can click on.
If you want to find a city or place in the USA go to this website:
http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/pas/kids/Then click on EXPLORE USA Next, on the left side click EXPLORE THE 50 STATESThen click on the letters to get information about the state.
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Once the search and chart is completed, they students will choose the place they likemost out of those three.
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