Cassie Waddell

IDT 3600

Lesson Plan Guide

Teacher Candidate: Cassie Waddell

Date:11/15/16

Grade and Topic: 2nd Grade Social Studies

Length of Lesson: 45-60 minutes

Mentor Teacher: Cornelius

School: U of M Memphis

UNIT/CHAPTER OBJECTIVE/GENERALIZATION/BIG IDEA:

Even though we are all different and come from different backgrounds, what makes all the same?
2.5 Create audio recordings, adding drawings or other visual displays, to explain the ways in which we are all part of the
same community, sharing principles, goals, and traditions despite varied ancestry.
2.3 Compare and contrast various cultures in the United States by engaging in collaborative conversations with partners.

LESSON OBJECTIVE:
Students will be able to compare and contrast different cultures.
Students will create a graphic organizer to display their knowledge.
STANDARDS ADDRESSED:

2.5 Create audio recordings, adding drawings or other visual displays, to explain the ways in which we are all part of the
same community, sharing principles, goals, and traditions despite varied ancestry.
2.3 Compare and contrast various cultures in the United States by engaging in collaborative conversations with partners.
ISTE 7a Students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging
with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.

MATERIALS:
Check list and pencil
Computer
Microsoftword
Internet tools:

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/countries.html
http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/pas/kids/index.htm
http://www.oocities.org/teacherkab/countries/usa.htm

Student will compare their cultures with other cultures in the world and in the US using the graphic organizer
Microsoftword. Some sources are listed above, but students are free to research and use different sources as
well, but students must list the sources they use. Example is given at the end of the document.

BACKGROUND and RATIONALE:

Concept of this lesson is to get students to see the different cultures that are all around them every day and to
see similarities in their own.
The lesson continues with the lesson on immigration in America.
This lesson will continue with how different cultures have helped shaped the nation.
PROCEDURES AND TIMELINE:

Introduction: How many of you know where your families originally came from? What countries did your
ancestors come from? Did you know that we all had to have travelled from somewhere to get here? All around
us there are many different cultures in the United States, and sometimes we can tell that by looking at someone
because they look different from us. Did you know how much you have in common with other cultures, though?
We might look different and do different things, but we are all the same in some way.
Procedures:
Assignment 1:
1. Students will pair into their designated groups planned for them earlier in the year.
2. Students will be given a checklist that they must go by to complete the assignment and turn it in along with

their graphic organizer to ensure all tasks are complete.

3. Students will research or use the links provided by the teacher to look up cultures.
4. Students will bring homework assignment with them to their groups that explains their own culture that they
were to work on with their parents.
Assignment 2:
1. Students will create a graphic organizer comparing cultures
2. Students will not only list items that are different but items that are the same, as well.
3. At least 3 pictures must be included in each bubble.
4. Students will print their graphic organizer and turn in checklist.
5. Students will be given three minutes to present their graphic organizer.

Closure: You see? Even though people may look different or act different from you, you might have more in
common than you know. America is made up of so many different cultures. That is what makes us so much
different than other countries, but our differences are what makes us great.
ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE:
Criteria

Students organizer is neat

and is easy to understand

Students completed the

check list provided

Students worked well

together with no difficulty

Example of Microsoftword:

5 things about
a
culture

Similaritie
s
About the
cultures

5 things about
another culture

Checklist:
Group is together
Everyone in the group has their homework from the night before
Students have researched at least 5 other cultures
Students have started in their graphic organizer
Students have included at least three pictures in their graphic organizer
Students have printed their graphic organizer
Students have allowed everyone in the team to make a bubble in the graphic organizer
Students have a three minute presentation ready on their project
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