Description of the students:
This plan was designed as a 1st grade Social Studies Unit. Students will work collaboratively in groups to explore different cultures and geography around the world. This class has a variety of academic abilities. Children range from gifted and talented and average learning abilities to having speech/language IEP's and developmental delay IEP's.
Note: This unit can be modified to accomodate grades 2-5
Description of the plan highlights:
- Students will take a pre-assessment on the first day of the unit to check prior knowledge of countries and continents.
- Students will take a week long journey across the world.
-During class students will visit a new continent each day and learn about a specific country.
-Students will learn about cultural differences between countries.
- Each day 4 activities will be set up around the room. Students will work collaboratively in groups to explore each country. Each day the activities will consist of: Art projects, Writing, Math Exploration, and Food Tasting.
- Students will take a group post assessment at the end of the unit to see how much new information they retained
- Students will host a Cultural Fair at the end of the unit to show off their new knowledge.
Key Learner Outcomes:
1. Students will visit a new continent each day and learn about a specific country’s culture within that continent. They then will be able to locate their country/continent on a map.
2. Students will learn to work collaboratively in groups to complete specific tasks.
3. Students will use their math, writing, reading, and artistic to complete specific tasks.
4. Students will be able to inform others about the various cultural aspects of each country they studied and inform others about which continent you can find each country.
5. Students will learn that are many cultures around the world.
How will I measure if the plan was successful:
- Family and friends will be invited to attend a Cultural Fair hosted by the students at the end of the unit. At the fair the children will be divided into groups and each group will talk about one of the continent/ country they explored in class. ( Food Tasting, Visual Art displays, etc.)
- Family and friends will be encouraged to ask children questions about each contient/country and will evaluate each group on their ability to answer questions.
- These results will help to indicate how well the groups worked together and how much knowledge they retained about their country/continent.
Survey for Cultural Fair Using a scale of (1-5) 1= lowest 5= highest Evaluate each group on their ability to answer questions about their country/ continent: 1. Brazil/ South America_________ 2. Italy/ Europe ________ 3. Japan/ Asia _________ 4. Egypt/ Africa ________ 5. Australia/ Australia ___________ 6. Antarctica/ Antarctica ___________ ** USA/ North America – we covered together as a class |
Post Assessment- Students are able to work in groups to complete this assessment
- Students will be asked to work in groups to match a country with the correct continent and with a picture from that country. They will then be asked to tell what their favorite country/continent was and why.
Grading for Post Assessment RP (Rapid Progress): Students will be able to correctly match all continents, countries, and pictures together. - Students will be able to answer which country was their favorite and why with specific reasons or examples studied in class. SP (Steady Progress): Students will be able to correctly match at least 4 out of 6 continents, countries, and pictures we studied together. - Students will be able to answer which country was their favorite and why with only one reason or example from class. PH (Progressing with Help): Students will be able to correctly match at most 2 out of the 6 continents, countries, and pictures we studied together. - Students will be able to answer which country was the favorite on their own but needs help telling why. HD (Having Difficulty): Student is able to correctly match only 1 of the 6 continents, countries, pictures we studied together - Student is not able to recall any of the countries we studied on their own |
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