Cultural+Exploration+Unit+Plan

Teacher(s) Name: Elizabeth Brumer, Kamilah McCallum, Jesi Shearhod

Thematic Unit Theme/Title/Grade Level: Cultural Exploration //Essential Question: // What is culture and how do you identify with culture(s)? What will students accomplish / be able to do at the end of this lesson? Be sure to set significant (related to SSS), challenging and appropriate learning goals. || //Depending on the topic, 4-5 objectives are ample. All should begin with: // The student will…
 * Learning Objectives
 * Discover the link between song and dance and learning and how to use it in their own learning.
 * Understand that they belong to many different cultures and create a culminating project to express aspects of their own (culture dictionary).
 * The student will identify and describe at least three key elements of culture by researching and studying Botswana and relating it to their own personal experiences.
 * The student will create a project using pictures, sentences, and/or personal explanations describing at least three elements of culture.
 * The student will present their project based on their chosen elements of culture in a fun and creative way.

|| **Sunshine State Standards ** List each standard. Cutting and pasting from the website is allowed. //These can be downloaded from the Florida Dept of Education __ [|http://flstandards.org] __. // || * SS.2.C.2.1: Identify what it means to be a United States citizen either by birth or by naturalization.   <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Graphic Organizer/Discussion/Picture Walk <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//On-Going/Post-Assessments:// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scrapbook <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital Storytelling <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alphabet book <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital Scrapbook <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alphabet Poem Book || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Activities & Procedures
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NGSSS- Next Generation **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SS.2.A.1.2: Identify ways citizens can make a positive contribution in their community.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SS.2.C.3.2: Recognize symbols, individuals, events, and documents that represent the United States.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SS.2.C.2.4: Identify ways citizens can make a positive contribution in their community.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SS.2.A.1.1: Examine primary and secondary sources.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SS.2.G.1.2: Using maps and globes, locate the student's hometown, Florida, and North America, and locate the state capital and the national capital.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LA.2.3.1.1: The student will prewrite by generating ideas from multiple sources (e.g., text, brainstorming, webbing, drawing, writer's notebook, group discussion, other activities);
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LA.2.3.5.1: The student will produce, illustrate, and share a variety of compositions.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LA.2.3.3.4: The student will revise by evaluating the composition, with the assistance of teacher, peer, checklist, or rubric.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LA.2.4.3.1: The student will draw a picture and use simple text to explain why this item (food, pet, person) is important to them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LA.2.6.4.2: The student will use digital resources (e.g., writing tools, digital cameras, drawing tools) to present and publish thoughts, ideas, and stories.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LA.2.6.2.1: The student will generate research questions by brainstorming, identify key words, group related ideas, and select appropriate resources (e.g., atlases, nonfiction books, dictionaries, digital references);
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LA.2.6.2.3: The student will analyze and select appropriate facts and communicate information in a simple report that includes, a title, a main, and supporting details;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DA.2.H.1.1: Perform a variety of dances to explore their origins, cultures, and themes.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DA.2.C.1.3: Express creatively, using pictures, symbols, and/or words, the meaning or feeling of a dance piece
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DA.2.H.3.2: Describe connections between creating in dance and creating in other content areas.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MU.2.F.2.1: Describe how people participate in music.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MU.2.H.2.1: Discuss how music is used for celebrations in American and other cultures.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MU.2.H.1.1: Perform songs, musical games, dances, and simple instrumental accompaniments from a variety of cultures.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VA.2.O.3.1: Create personally meaningful works of art to document and explain ideas about local and global communities.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VA.2.S.1.2: Use diverse resources to inspire expression of personal ideas and experiences in works of art.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VA.2.S.1.3: Explore art from different time periods and cultures as sources for inspiration. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will student learning be assessed? Authentic/alternative assessments?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Does your assessment align with your objectives, standards and procedures?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Informal assessment (multiple modes): participation rubrics, journal entries, collaborative planning/presentation notes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Pre-assessment://
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design for Instruction //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What best-practice strategies will be implemented?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will you communicate student expectations?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What products will be developed and created by students?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Consider c// ontextual factors // (learning differences/learning environment/learning styles) that may be in place in your future classroom.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exceptionalities
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What accommodations or modifications do you make for ESOL, Gifted/Talented students, Learning/Reading disabilities (SLD), etc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the heart of the lesson plan. Be as specific as possible. // <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe lesson in a step-by-step logical, **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">numbered ** sequence, including teacher and student activities. Be sure to include key questions for discussion, collaborative structures, etc. // <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t forget about anticipatory sets and beginning each lesson, Tuesday through Friday with a review of the previous days learning. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In your lesson be sure to label (ESOL; ESE) appropriate activities and modifications made for ESOL and ESE students. // || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion Notes: // Make comments here related to ideas for assessment measures, homework, parent involvement, field trips, or extension to the unit plan ideas. //
 * ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resources/Materials == || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Travels with Gannon and Wyatt // by Patti Wheeler and Keithe Hemstreet ||