Lesson #2
Unit Plan: Cultural Diversity
Topic: Detective Time!
Topic: Detective Time!
Cycle Level: Cycle three/Grade 6
Duration: 75 min
Duration: 75 min
Materials:
- Smart Board
- Computer room
- Computers (enough to have one computer for every child, or one per two students)
- Happy to be Nappy video clip
- Example of survey questions
- Checklist Assessment
- White paper to print
- Language Arts duo-tang
- Smart Board
- Computer room
- Computers (enough to have one computer for every child, or one per two students)
- Happy to be Nappy video clip
- Example of survey questions
- Checklist Assessment
- White paper to print
- Language Arts duo-tang
Links:
| checklist_for_survey_n.dot |
10 min
5 min
** Today’s class will take place in a computer room. **
Introduction:
- Teacher, start the lesson, by having a short discussion of what a happened in the previous class (the KWL chart).
- Have a class discussion about what they came up with about cultural diversity.
- Discuss some of their ideas that they wrote in their journals.
- Inform the students that today they will be detectives. They will create their own questionnaires and interview others in order to see how they preserve cultural diversity.
Development:
Happy to be Nappy Activity:
- Gather the students in front of the Smart Board.
- Show them the “Happy to be Nappy” video clip (see link on the top of the page).
- As a class, discuss what the clip is saying.
- What is the message the children are trying to communicate to the audience?
- Move onto the next activity only once the students have grasped the idea and message projected in the clip.
Introduction:
- Teacher, start the lesson, by having a short discussion of what a happened in the previous class (the KWL chart).
- Have a class discussion about what they came up with about cultural diversity.
- Discuss some of their ideas that they wrote in their journals.
- Inform the students that today they will be detectives. They will create their own questionnaires and interview others in order to see how they preserve cultural diversity.
Development:
Happy to be Nappy Activity:
- Gather the students in front of the Smart Board.
- Show them the “Happy to be Nappy” video clip (see link on the top of the page).
- As a class, discuss what the clip is saying.
- What is the message the children are trying to communicate to the audience?
- Move onto the next activity only once the students have grasped the idea and message projected in the clip.
15 min
40 min
5 min
What is a survey question?
- Explain to the students that a questionnaire is a series of survey questions that someone may ask an adult; they can also be called surveys.
- Ask the students if any of them have ever seen their parents answer a survey. Ask them to explain the survey, to the best of their abilities. Accept all answers.
- Inform the students that today they will create survey questions about cultural diversity.
- Show the students some examples, of survey questions. http://www.arts.state.tx.us/toolkit/programs/templates/survey.pdf
- As a class, practice how to create survey questions.
- Ask the students: “What are some questions a teacher might ask his
or her students at the begging of the school year? What can they ask
in order to get to know their students?”
- Ask them to reflect back to the question that they got asked at the
beginning of the school year.
- Brainstorm their ideas on the Smart Board.
- Once they understand the concept of survey questions, move onto creating their own survey questions.
Creating their survey questions:
- Tell the students that they will work with a partner in order to create a set of survey questions about cultural diversity; however they must both type up their own questionnaire.
- Inform them that their target audience are adults. Explain that a target
audience, are the people that will be answering the questions.
- Next, show the students how they will be assessed. Display the checklist on the Smart Board and explain the criteria for the questionnaire (see document above). Explain to the students what is needed on the questionnaire.
- Inform the students that on the questionnaire, there must be their name,
today’s date, and the title or topic of the questions (eg, Cultural Diversity).
- The questionnaire must also have a minimum of five questions and must be
answered by three different adults (three interviewers). The interviewer
must also sign at the bottom of the sheet, proving that the interview was a
success.
- Dismiss the students, and allow time for them to work on their survey questions.
- Leave the checklist document on the Smart Board like that the students can
make sure they have all the required elements.
Conclusion:
- Allow the students to print out their questionnaires and to interview one person from the class, as a bonus (this person does not count as the 3 interviewers only as an extra person; it will count as a bonus).
- Ask the students to place the survey questionnaire in the Language Art duo-tang.
** Homework: The students must have the survey complete, the interviewers must have been interviewed, prior to the next class. **
- Explain to the students that a questionnaire is a series of survey questions that someone may ask an adult; they can also be called surveys.
- Ask the students if any of them have ever seen their parents answer a survey. Ask them to explain the survey, to the best of their abilities. Accept all answers.
- Inform the students that today they will create survey questions about cultural diversity.
- Show the students some examples, of survey questions. http://www.arts.state.tx.us/toolkit/programs/templates/survey.pdf
- As a class, practice how to create survey questions.
- Ask the students: “What are some questions a teacher might ask his
or her students at the begging of the school year? What can they ask
in order to get to know their students?”
- Ask them to reflect back to the question that they got asked at the
beginning of the school year.
- Brainstorm their ideas on the Smart Board.
- Once they understand the concept of survey questions, move onto creating their own survey questions.
Creating their survey questions:
- Tell the students that they will work with a partner in order to create a set of survey questions about cultural diversity; however they must both type up their own questionnaire.
- Inform them that their target audience are adults. Explain that a target
audience, are the people that will be answering the questions.
- Next, show the students how they will be assessed. Display the checklist on the Smart Board and explain the criteria for the questionnaire (see document above). Explain to the students what is needed on the questionnaire.
- Inform the students that on the questionnaire, there must be their name,
today’s date, and the title or topic of the questions (eg, Cultural Diversity).
- The questionnaire must also have a minimum of five questions and must be
answered by three different adults (three interviewers). The interviewer
must also sign at the bottom of the sheet, proving that the interview was a
success.
- Dismiss the students, and allow time for them to work on their survey questions.
- Leave the checklist document on the Smart Board like that the students can
make sure they have all the required elements.
Conclusion:
- Allow the students to print out their questionnaires and to interview one person from the class, as a bonus (this person does not count as the 3 interviewers only as an extra person; it will count as a bonus).
- Ask the students to place the survey questionnaire in the Language Art duo-tang.
** Homework: The students must have the survey complete, the interviewers must have been interviewed, prior to the next class. **
