Diversity Lesson Plan

Teacher: Miss Krista Morris

Date: February 16th, 2017
Book: If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
By: Giles Laroche
Published: October 25th, 2011
Grade Level: First Fourth Grade
Multicultural Themes
Discovering personal identity
Forming cultural values
Exploring cultural conflicts
Environmental adaptation
Education
Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL.1.1 - Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL.1.2 - Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL.1.3 - Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL.1.7 - Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
 Objectives
The student will be able to compare and contrast a variety of diverse
living environments through group discussion and story mapping with at
least 90% accuracy.

The student will be able to make use of key terms and describe ideas in
relation to personal living situations discussed in a group setting with
95% accuracy.
 Materials Needed
The book If You Lived Here: Houses of the
World by Giles Laroche
Brown lunch bags
Glue sticks or Elmers Glue
Miscellaneous arts and craft materials (yarn,
sequins, felt, construction paper)
Safety scissors
Markers and crayons
Newspaper
Types of homes and childrens names labels
(Teacher will make)
Chart of a globe with specific Country's housing
pictures (Teacher will make)
 Procedure
Introduce: Present the book If You Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche. Then ask
What types of homes do you live in? Now, imagine if we lived in an igloo. Would we be wearing the
same clothes as right now? What about our modes of transportation and leisure?
Read: The teacher reads the book aloud to the entire class.
Discuss: The teacher will ask questions pertaining to the story in a discussion with the whole class.
1. What are some of the main differences/similarities between the homes you learned about from
the book and the homes you see here in the United States? (You can individualize with the
exact state you reside in. For example we live in Nevada, so I would ask specifically for our hot,
desert climate.)
2. Why do you think that certain homes were constructed the way they were?
3. What kinds of stories do you think the outside walls of a South Africa villages homes would
tell?
4. How do you think a foreign visitor would feel walking into your own home? How would you
feel walking into an unfamiliar home?
5. What are some other cultural differences we can learn about by simply entering ones home?
 Activity
Paper Bag House
Materials Needed: brown lunch bags, glue
sticks, glue, miscellaneous arts and craft
materials (yarn, sequins, felt, construction
paper), scissors, markers and crayons;
newspaper.
The children decorate the bags as they want
drawing or making doors and windows.
When done, crumple newspaper and stuff
bags. Staple closed.
EXTENSION: Give each child a large piece of
construction paper and crayons. Instruct
them to draw a road, sidewalks, trees, or a
landscape they learned about from the
story, and place their house on their
street/landscape.
Where Do You Live Graph
Materials Needed: teacher-made housing chart, little house
shaped cutouts/punches, Velcro, crayons, markers, colored
pencils, etc.
Teacher: In advance, create a chart. Print the children's
names down the left side of chart paper. Create columns
and label them with the different types of
homes: apartments, houses, condos, mobile homes, etc.
Discuss and describe different types of homes. Ask the
children which type they live in.
Invite them to color in or place a colored square or house
shape under the column of their type of house.
Ask the children what kind of home they live in and then
graph it on a chart.
Use this for math throughout the week: How many live in
apartments? Houses? Which column has more? Less?
Evaluation
The teacher will have
pictures of different
types of house dwellings
to show students and ask
individually for a recap
of what they learned
from the story about
each environment.