INTASC Standard, Description and Rationale

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Multicultural Lesson Plan

Madeline Webb

Ivy Tech Community College

INTASC Standard, Description and Rationale

Standard #5: Application of Content

The teacher understands how to connect concepts and use differing perspectives to engage learners in critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving related to authentic local and global issues.

Name of Artifact: Multicultural Lesson Plan

Date: March, 26, 2013

Course: EDUC 130

Brief Description: For this assignment, I developed a multicultural lesson plan that documents the steps I will utilize as an educator when teaching diversity and multicultural activities to my students. In this lesson plan, I include state standards, multicultural goals/objectives, materials needed and method of instruction. Within the method of instruction, I detail how the lesson will be introduced, demonstrated, practiced and assessed.

Rationale: To document my understanding of Standard #5, Application of Content, I selected to include my Multicultural Lesson Plan because this assignment demonstrates by ability to plan a lesson plan for my students involving multicultural activities. This lesson plan also requires me to address different student’s abilities, while keeping the class on track. My knowledge of the curriculum and content areas are demonstrated in this lesson planning, as well.

Multicultural Thinking and Lesson Plan Form

Title/Unit: Family History: Creating a Family Crest

Lesson time: 2-3 Lessons

Grade(s): 4-6

State Standard(s)

Standard 5: Individuals, Society, and Culture
Students will understand that they are individuals who interact with other individuals and groups; take responsibility for resolving conflicts and working respectfully with others; and examine the ways that similarities and differences in customs, celebrations, recreation, and the arts benefit the community.

4.5.1 Identify ways that social groups* influence individual behavior and responsibilities.Example: When people belong to a group they usually interact with each other frequentlyand follow the rules of the group.

4.5.2 Identify the different types of social groups to which people belong and the functions thesegroups perform.Example: Social groups may have social, religious, recreational, cultural, educational, service,civic, political, or other functions.

Multicultural Goal(s): The objective for this activity is that students will be able to research their family/caregivers history and culture and display the information learned in the form of a family crest which will be presented to the class to show differences and similarities in the student’s families. Children can begin to think about how each student’s families are different, yet very similar.

Expected Outcomes / Students Will:

Research family or caregivers history
Identify unique characteristics special to their family or caregivers heritage
Organize research in the form of four main categories
Design and Display learned information on a family crest
Present the crest to the class and explain family history, culture and heritage.

Teaching/Learning Strategies:

Resources Needed

-Family research questions handout

-Example of a family crest

-Who’s in my Family By Robert Skutch

-A large piece of paper

-The pictures

-Magazines

-Crayons, markers, pencil

-An outline of a shield cut

-Glue (optional)

Directions

Lesson 1: 30-40 minutes

Step 1. Read the story Who’s in my Family
Empathy: Shows that there are many types of families, whether they are traditional or non-traditional to ensure all children feel comfortable .

Step 2. Talk with the class about what makes up a family and how families are different from one another

Equity: Everyone has the chance to talk about their families
Empathy: Children learn about themselves and their friends families
Esteem: Talking about their family in the class can build self-esteem

Step 3. Talk about family crests and the history of crests in our world.

Step 4. Discuss the research questions handouts for homework.

Lesson 2: 30-40 minutes

Step 5. Once children have acquired the necessary answers and objects for their research questions handout the crest worksheet and let them create their own family crests based on the information they retrieved.

Worksheet:

-On the large piece of paper, trace the oak tag shield or draw an outline of any shape (such as an oval).

-Divide the shape into three or four equal sections.

-In each section, draw a picture that represents one idea about your family. Some children may prefer to cut out pictures from magazines or use a family photograph. Another alternative is to use a computer, since this activity can be done easily with any drawing program.

-Laminate the finished crests, if possible.

Step 6. Allow students to talk about their family crests to the class and describe what they learnt about their heritage.

Equity: Every child has the chance to share the crest they made
Esteem: Children are able to talk about their work and be proud of what they created

Step 7.Create a classroom crest to create community with input from each student.

Equity: Everyone helps in designing a classroom crest
Empathy: Builds community within the classroom

Step 8. Display laminated crests around the classroom

Esteem: Seeing their work displayed builds self-esteem of the children

Performance Assessments

1. Research question sheet completed and artifacts brought in.

2. Ability to convert information from questions into a picture format for their crest.

3. Oral presentation of their crest to class.

4. Classroom Crest participation.

Differentiation

Gifted Students:

To differentiate the assignment for a gifted student I would encourage them to create symbols to represent different aspects of their family for the crest. I would suggest reading the book Coat of Arms by Catherine Daily-Weir to provide more in depth information on the history of family crest and to assist with the development of symbols for their crests.

Special Needs:

To accommodate for a student with special needs I would require them to research who is in their immediate family and one other fact about their family. On their crest they can draw a picture of their family members and a representation of the other fact. A presentation to the whole class may or may not be required depending on the ability level of the student.

Reflection

After presenting my lesson plan to the class I realized that I was only focusing on traditional families. In my classroom I may have students from all different backgrounds and therefore I need to alter this lesson plan slightly so all students will feel comfortable completing the activity. One way I can do this is by changing the crest from being specifically about a student’s family to focusing on making a personal crest about the individual student. This will mean that the student doesn’t have to discuss their family life and instead focus on things that they like to do. I believe that this is a fun activity and can be changed and differentiated in many different ways to accommodate many different students.

Justification of changes

I really liked the original lesson plan. I added more to the plan to make the assignment more involved.

Original Plan - Family Crest

Social Studies Activity

Children can begin to think about their family histories and their own lives by making a family crest.

BACKGROUND
Discuss family crests. Then brainstorm with children to get ideas that could represent their family histories or lives.

WHAT YOU NEED

A large piece of paper, at least 11"x14"
The pictures
Crayons, markers, pencil
An outline of a shield cut from oak tag
Glue (optional)

WHAT TO DO

On the large piece of paper, trace the oak tag shield or draw an outline of any shape (such as an oval).
Divide the shape into three or four equal sections.
In each section, draw a picture that represents one idea about your family. Some children may prefer to cut out pictures from magazines or use a family photograph. Another alternative is to use a computer, since this activity can be done easily with any drawing program.
Laminate the finished crests, if possible.
Have children share and compare their crests.

Research Questions for Student Crest

How many people are in your immediate family or in your house?

Do you have any brothers or sisters, if so how many and what are their names?

Do you have any uncles or aunts, if so how aunts do you have? How many uncles do you have?