Lesson Plan Format

NAME: Melissa Tourangeau

Lesson Title: Maori Culture
Total Time: 30 min
Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Common
Core)

Target Goal or Skill:

Essential Question(s):
Topical question(s):
Instructional
Objective(s):

Assessment
(Criteria / Look Fors/
Performance Tasks)

Grade level: 7th Grade

# Students: 31

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of words

and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific
to domains related to history/social studies. ( Common Core
Standards)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.7.1 Engage effectively in a range of
collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led)
with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building
on others ideas and expressing their own clearly
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.6 Acquire and use accurately gradeappropriate general academic and domain-specific words and
phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or
phrase important to comprehension or expression
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.2d- Establish and maintain formal style
Analyze a the Maori a culture in New Zealand
Discuss practices and beliefs
What are some ways to look at another culture?
Who are the Maori?
How are their beliefs similar or different from American culture?
Students will be able to:
Identify the Maori culture
Discuss common practices
Compare Maori culture to students cultural background
Define culture and aboriginal
Locate where the largest population of Maori live
Formative Assessment:
Can students answer questions about Maori culture
Are they participating in small groups and large groups
Complete a worksheet that reviews the topic
Summative Assessment:

Disabilities/Diverse
Needs Represented
Student
Accommodations and/or
Modifications

3 ELL children, Punjabi, Hispanic 1 hearing impaired, 2 kids with

ADHD and ADD.
The three ELL kids have been in the US for a while I am not sure
that they need any additional help any more. The student that is
hearing impaired has a hearing aid and sits in the front of the room.

I will use multiple different formats including, worksheet, group

discussion, PowerPoint and a video to keep the ADHD and ADD
students engaged with different activities.

Instructional Procedures
(including specific times)

Closure:

Does anyone where New Zealand is?

Call on student with hand up. Confirm or deny the answer given
(2 min)
Today we are going to talk about New Zealand and a specific
culture that lives in New Zealand named Maori.
Go to the PowerPoint
Show a map of the area including Australia and New Zealand
Talk about the clip we are going to see and define culture
Talk about history in slides (5 min)
Show the video (2 min)
Talk about the video with students
Ask what seems to be important in this culture?
Answers
Land, Water, strength, dance etc.
Talk about cultural practices
Ask how Maori differ from American culture (11 min)
Handout the worksheet which they can work on in small groups 3-4
students (10 min)

Academic Language

Culture, ancestors, Maori

5 Questions (Blooms)

What is culture?
What differences exist between American culture and Maori
culture?
How is Maori experience with European settlers similar to Native
Americans?
List the important features of Maori culture?
What is the relationship between Maori culture and the land?

Curriculum (APA)
e.g.

BBC News. 2014. New Zealand Profile

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-15370160 retrieved
3/11/14
Common Core Standards 2012 http://www.corestandards.org/ELALiteracy/RH/6-8 retrieved 2/27/14
Salter, Christopher, 2012. Eastern Hemisphere. Houghton Mifflin

Introduction:
(including motivational
hook where applicable)

Learning Activities:

Investigations in
Number, Data, and
Space. (2012).
Pearson.

Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando FL.

Smpwxc, 2007. Dance of Life ( Maori Excerpt) youtube.com
retrieved 2/27/14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=3BoNmpvkavo
Photo Credit for PowerPoint Presentation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305577/Right-wingDanish-MP-Marie-Krarup-offends-Maoris-describing-welcomegreeting-grotesque.html
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/351210470911590917/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2232831/NewZealand-Haka-terrifies-Leicester-Tigers.html
http://philstraveladventures.com/travel-news/aotearoa-awaits/

Materials

Notes

PowerPoint presentation, Video, Worksheet.