It’s a Small World

Grade Level: 1st graders

Sara Miller
07/04/2021
Edu 280
 It’s a Small World: Social Studies
Multicultural Goal 2: Develop an educational environment that
promotes respect for differences.
Course Objectives 3: Identify key concepts, instructional practices
and interpersonal interactions for implementing the dimensions of
multicultural education in today’s contemporary and diverse
classroom and global society.
Lesson
Objective It’s a Small World is a social studies lesson that teaches the students
about geography. It helps the students identify where landmarks
are located and different types of people that live in different areas
around the world. This lesson helps add diverse into the classroom
by teaching the students about it.
  Paint
 Color Pencils/Crayons
 Printed Lyrics of the Song “It’s a Small World”
 Printed Earth
Lesson  Map of the Earth
Materials  Paper and Pencils
 Homework From the Night Before
 Start Off Discussion Questions: “What do you think this song
means?”, “What does the world landmark mean?”, “Have you
been to any of these landmarks? What about your parents?”
 Do First/Welcome Activity: Help the students point out where there
ancestry is from (this information they will get from there parents
for homework the day before)
Mini-Lesson: Listen to song at least 3 times “It’s a Small World” and
have them follow along with the lyrics. After we listen to the song
we will have a class discussion about what the song means and how
it relates to them.
Instructions Guided Practice: Point out different landmarks on different parts of
the earth and talk about the different types of cultures that are
found there.
Independent Practice: Have the students draw landmarks on a
printed out earth. This will allow them to see what they learn and
use their creativity to make a colorful earth.
Exit Slip/Exit Ticket: Ask the students to write two sentence about
where they would like to visit and why.
  Christensen, C. (n.d.). Chapter 1 PowerPoint. Multicultural Slides.
 Education.com. (2019, September 19). It's A Small World: Different
Cultures: Lesson Plan: Education.com: Lesson plan. Lesson Plan |
Education.com | Lesson plan | Education.com.
https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/its-a-small-world-
Reference different-cultures/.
 Planet Earth Printable Outlines and Shape Book Writing Pages. A to
Z Teacher Stuff Printable Pages and Worksheets. (n.d.).
http://printables.atozteacherstuff.com/2481/planet-earth-
printable-outlines-and-shape-book-writing-pages/.
 What specific subject concepts, skills were taught.?
This lesson taught the students where landmarks were and about
different types of culture that are out there.
What specific multicultural knowledge, skills were achieved?
This lesson helped the students learn different types of cultures. This
helps them realize that differences are good.
How actively engaged are the students in the teaching-learning
Reflection process?
The students are able to express what there are feeling and interacted
in the lesson .
List the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson plan
Strengths of this lesson is that it give the students plenty of time to
discuss and apply what they have learned. The weaknesses of this
lesson plan is that the first part of the lesson may not work if there
parents don’t help out the night before.