Ashley Hurt

1. Title of activity, Grade Level a. Chinese New Year (Technology), 1st Grade 2. Goals and Rationale of the lesson a. For students to gain knowledge about different cultures and traditions around the world. b. Students learn to build awareness of different cultures. Students also are building appreciation for other traditions that they may not practice in their own homes. This is important because students need to be able to accept people and cultures that are different than their own in society. 3. Teacher Objectives a. Students will know why the Chinese new year is celebrate and what the important parts of the celebration are. 4. Standards a. 5. Developmental Prerequisites/ Developmental Targets a. Students do not need to know anything about the Chinese New Year before this lesson. 6. Location and setup of activity a. Students will be at their desks for the video clips and the making of their lanterns. 7. Teacher Preparation a. The teacher needs to have the video clips ready for the students to watch when they come back into the class. b. The teacher needs to make sure all of the supplies needed for the lantern is collected and in one specific location. c. The teacher needs to make sure the dragon costume is out and ready to put on. 8. Instructional Procedures a. Ask the students if they know what the Chinese New Year is. b. Give a brief description of it. c. Tell students we are going to watch and listen to a childrens book be read aloud on the computer, which talks about what the Chinese New Year is and how it came about. d. Play video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOS99vWI_o&src_vid=Pr8RuHGnosU&fea ture=iv&annotation_id=annotation_54133711 e. Ask students their favorite part? f. Ask what the monster was scared of? Red, Fire, Firecrackers. g. Why do they think he is scared of those things? h. Watch a video about a parade that is put on for Chinese New Year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRBWKCnMpv0 i. What did they notice about the parade? j. Explain how they are now going to make Chinese lanterns that are used for the new year. k. Show how to make the lantern. l. Let children make the lantern. m. Tell the students that we actually have a dragon costume that a grandma made for Mrs. Melow and long time ago and we are going to put on our own parade for the school. n. Go over behavior expectations. o. Get students under the dragon.

Ashley Hurt

p. Parade. q. Clean up classroom. 9. Differentiation a. For students that need a little help on the lantern, they will be able to ask a friend for help or come up to me for more instructions. For students that cant walk under the dragon, they can walk beside it with their lantern. b. For students that need more to do more, they can help the students who need more help finishing their lantern. 10. Assessment a. Informal: I will ask questions about the videos afterwards to make sure the students understood what was happening in the videos. 11. Transition a. Tell the students to clean up their mess and come to the meeting center. 12. Reflection a. How did the lesson go? I think the lesson went very well and was quite successful! The technology worked great and the students really enjoyed watching and listening to the book online. I dont think this is something that they have done before, so I think I will definitely do it again with another lesson. The students did not know a lot about the Chinese New Year, expect for remembering that they did something in Kindergarten. The lanterns looked great to decorate the classroom. The parade was a success as well. All of the students behaved appropriately under the dragon. b. What is something you would change for next time? For next year if I did this lesson again, I think I would make the lantern project more student friendly because the teachers had to do a lot of the taping because we only have two tape dispensers and didnt want to the students to use all of the tape on one lantern. I think glue would work better for putting the lanterns together. Also, I think we will make sure the classes are in the hallway ready when we come by because the students were getting a little impatient waiting for the classes to come out into the hallway to see the parade. c. Were the students engaged the whole time? The students seemed really engaged in this lesson, especially the videos. They all had a lot of questions about why things happened the way they do or what else happens during this time. I did not know all of the answers to their questions either because they were so curious, which is great to see. The students also were really engaged in the parade by making their dragon dance while walking down the hallway. I really enjoyed teaching this lesson.