Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Big Idea
Family Heritage; people come from all over the world
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Essential Question
Where does your family come from?
What is your heritage?
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Lesson Objectives
The students will be able to correctly identify the United States on a
world map by coloring it in on a worksheet with 100% accuracy
Students will be able to verbally discuss reasons that would cause
someone to want to move from place to place
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Materials
Smart Board
Computer
Projector
Google Maps
From Here to There by Margery Cuyler, Illustrated by Yu Cha Pak
Pencils
Crayons
Chalkboard or white board
World map on the smart board
World map coloring page
**Students will be discussing family dynamics and various family cultures all
throughout the day. This lesson will take place over the course of two periods;
this part will be a continuation from the language arts lesson earlier. During the
first language arts period of the day the teacher will read Rene Has Two Last
Names and discuss how family is a part of who you are. The class will have a
discussion about what makes a family, and how some families are alike and
different. Students will use their family interviews to write three complete
sentences about their family. They will also incorporate information about their
families to make a family crest that reflects their familys interests and
uniqueness.
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Assessment/Evaluation
Students world maps will be collected. They will receive full credit if they
were able to correctly identify and color in the United States.
A checklist will keep track of student participation during the class
discussion. If a student is struggling to participate they can be evaluated
on their attentiveness and cooperative behavior.
VIII.
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Interdisciplinary Connections
This lesson is connected to the writing activity from earlier in the day, but
could easily be extended into a variety of journal prompts such as If you
could live anywhere in the world or If you could travel anywhere in
the world, where would you go, and who would you want to take with
you?
Expanding off of the idea in From Here to There students could further
explore social studies by making a layered foldable such as the one
pictured below. It would include their house, their town, their state, and
their country. Gifted students could be asked to go a few steps further.
Additional materials such as construction paper, scissors, various sized
circle stencils, glue sticks, paper to draw pictures, and a brad would be
necessary.