Compelling Question / How are people the same and different?
Key Ideas and Practices / Children, families and communities exhibit cultural similarities and differences.
Staging the Question / Game- Students will say their name then say hello in English or in their native language. Some students may say hi, hello, hola etc.
Supporting
Question 1 / Supporting
Question 2 / Supporting
Question 3
How are we the same or different from our classmates? / How are families different and the same? / What do you celebrate at home and how do you celebrate it?
Formative
Performance Task / Formative
Performance Task / Formative
Performance Task
Teacher takes a photo of each child.
Students discuss photos of themselves. / Students create a family using precut paper people. / Students draw a picture of what they celebrate with their families.
Teachers may scribe for students as the student explains their celebration.
Featured Sources / Featured Sources / Featured Sources
Olivia Dances for Joy- N. Shaw
I Like Me- Nancy Carlson
Pebble Go Website (for ideas) / Google Images
Families- Ann Morris
The Family Book-Todd Parr
Families Are Different- Nina Pellegrini
TCIteach.com What is a family? Collage activity / Growing Up with Tamales- Zepeda
My Family Plays Music- Judy Cox
Celebrating Kwanzaa, Celebrating Passover, Celebrating Hanukkah, D. Hoyt-Goldsmith
Summative
Performance Task / Students choose a picture of people/family, tell how those people are the same/different from their family.
Taking Informed Action / Class created posters displayed in school. Students tell peers about pictures on gallery walks.
Teacher notes
A variety of trade books should be used to introduce and provide information for each of the supporting questions.
Supporting question1- How are we the same or different from our classmates?
Lessons will entail:
· Students could create An All About Me Book
· Individual students describing themselves
· Making self portraits
· Discussing how we are all the same using images
· Discussing how we are all different using images
· Teacher listing on chart paper what individual students like to do
Teachers should choose images and trade books representing the cultures in their immediate classroom.
Supporting question 2 How are families different and the same?
· As a class define family
· Students discuss images of families with elbow partners
· List variety of words students use for family members such as nana, papa, nima, etc.
· Students draw a picture of their family
Supporting question 3 What do you celebrate at home and how do you celebrate it?
· Have an actual Thanksgiving meal or other celebration representing different cultures
· List special foods children eat at their home
· Have students demonstrate a special dance they may do at a family celebration
Grant, Lee, and Swan, 2014