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Michelle Fontenot
Title: Multi-cultural Calendar
Grade Level: 4th
Length: 1hr 30 min
Performance Expectation
The students will learn about various cultures by making a
multi-cultural calendar.
Materials: Glue, Markers, Crayons,
Construction Paper, Scissors
6 sheets of 11" x 17" Construction paper
12 pieces of 8 1/2 "x 11" Drawing paper
Availability to a library
Procedures:
Introduction:
As the students come in the classroom ask them how many months
are in a year. Then put each student in a month according to their
first initial of their name. Then try to divide the classroom
in to 12 groups. Then put three students to a group or whatever
is best for your class. Explain to the class how they are going
to make a multi-cultural calendar.
Development:
Then for 45 minutes have the students decide what ethnic or
religious culture would they like to learn about. The students
have to learn about a ethnic or religious culture that is not
theirs. Whatever the students choose they need to go to the library
as a group and get information about the ethnic or religious culture
their group is studying for the calendar. For the next 15 minutes
have the students decide what group should go to which month.
After the students choose a month have them complete the calendar
pages by filling in the dates for holidays and other important
dates for that particular culture. The students can then add quotes
or short poems from their assigned culture. If the students want
to they can decorate the page for their assigned month. Next have
the students glue the illustrations and the calendar sheet on
a piece of 11"x17" construction paper. Then collect
the students pages and fold them to create the calendar.
Closure:
Lastly you can have the class make a cover for the calendar,
that incorporates all of the cultures inside the calendar.
Assessment:
The students can then come up as the assigned groups and tell
the class a little about the culture, that the group was assigned
to get information on. At the end of all the presentations each
student would write for the teacher something about the culture
they did and another culture another student did. Then the teacher
can grade the students on what sufficient information they get
from their own research or someone's else's research. what the
students learn from the calendar about other cultures.
Adaptation/ Consideration:
If you do not have time to do the research and make the calendar
on the same day, just do the research on one day and the calendar
the next day. When the students do a great job you can consider
celebrating certain occasions from the calendar by having the
class bring in special foods, sing songs or read a story appropriate
to the day.
Reference:
Bailey, G. (1994).101 Activities for creating
technology staff development. A Sourcebook of Games and
Learning Exercises.
Michelle Fontenot, October 6,1997.
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