Wilson EDUC 353 Name: Rachel Tomashosky Date: October 21, 2013 Target Grade Level: 1st Grade

(Stephanie Patrimonio, Bianca Rizzo, Michelle Joyce) Curriculum Topic: Culture, Traditions, and Family UbD Lesson Plan Template Stage 1: Desired Results

Established Goals: Social Studies Standard 1.2 People and families of diverse racial, religious, national, and ethnic groups transmit their beliefs, customs, and traditions to create a multicultural community. 1.2.c Families exchange elements of their culture with other families or community members. Common Core State Standards 1.W.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Understandings: Students will understand that Everyones culture is different and unique. Traditions may be passed on differently in every culture. Examples: story telling, a book, pictures, etc. Culture and traditions get passed on from generation to generation.

Essential Question(s): How does culture get passed on from one generation to another? What are examples of any other culture traditions that you know of? Is each persons culture different and unique?

Students will know. Academic language such as: Generation- All of the people born and living at the same time. Traditions- customs or beliefs being passed on from generation to generation. There are common traditions in different cultures.

Students will be able to.. Become experts about their own culture and where their families are from.

Examples of different cultures and traditions.

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Performance Tasks: Students will write brief descriptions about their personal item that defines their culture and share the item and their writing with peers.

Other Evidence: Students will recognize that each culture brings something to the classroom, community, and world.

Stage 3: Learning Plan

Learning Activities: Pre-assessment- I will start the lesson by going over what was discussed in the previous lesson. I will ask, Can anyone tell me what our cultural charts were about? I will have a grand conversation (a group discussion) with the students on what generation means and how our culture and traditions come from the different generations in each of our families. This will be the third lesson on culture. They already have prior knowledge on what culture, traditions, and beliefs are. The students have already discussed similarities and differences of their culture to a partner's culture. A few days before this lesson takes place, I will ask the students to bring in an item that reminds them of their culture and is important them. This personal item should be able to fit into a shoebox. The item should be unbreakable and easy transportable. The students mission today will be to write a short description of the item they brought in and how the item defines their culture. I will then show an item from my family that explains my tradition from the culture and family I come from. I will show a recipe of my favorite food that my family makes on every holiday. I will then read my brief description to the class. My description: The item that I decided to bring into class to show today is a recipe for perogies. This item means a lot to me because I help my aunts and grandma make it on

every holiday. This recipe explains my family tradition because it has been made in my family through many generations. It is always an important day where my whole family gets together and spends the day baking together. Using their cultural charts from lesson two, students will write three to four sentences beginning with capital letters and ending punctuation to describe their personal item that reminds them of their culture. After they finish their short descriptions, the students will be put into groups of four or five and to share their item and description with members of the group.

Differentiation: Above Grade Level Learners: The students will complete this independently with no guidance. On Grade Level Learners: The students will do this independently. They are given sentence starters. Below Grade Level Learners: The students will work on this independently. They are given an example and sentence starters.

Resources

Worksheet- Attached below.

Name: My Item Is

Date:

Directions: Explain what your item is. Why you chose that item? What it means to your family? Where
did the item come from?

Name: My Item Is The item that I decided to bring into class to show today

Date:

is ____________________________________________.

This item means a lot to me because______________________

_________________________________________________________.

This item explains my family tradition ____________________

_____.

Name: My Item Is

Date:

Example: This item means a lot to me because I help my aunts and grandma make it on every holiday. This recipe explains my family tradition because it has been made in my family through many generations. It is always an important day where my whole family gets together and spends the day baking together.

The item that I decided to bring into class to show today is ________________________________________________.

This item means a lot to me because______________________

_________________________________________________________.

This item explains my family tradition ____________________

_____.