Cultural Diversity

Lesson #3

Unit Plan: Cultural Diversity         
Topic: Detective Time – part 2
Cycle Level:  Cycle three/Grade 6
Duration: 60 min
Materials:
- Smart Board
- Computer room 
- Computers (enough to have one computer for every child, or one per two students)
- Language Arts duo-tang
- Student’s survey questionnaire
- Pencil
- Journal






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32 min







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** Today’s class will also take place in a computer room. **
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Before starting class, the teacher must create a site where students can blog, for example mediapress.com
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Introduction:
- Ask the students to take out their survey sheets, their homework from the previous class.  They must have 3-4 copies depending on if they interview a classmate.  
            - Teacher, make sure everyone has completed their work properly.
- Have the students exchange sheets with a partner.  Give time, to read their classmate’s questionnaire and what the adults answered.    

Development:
Interview Discussion:
- Gather the students on the floor, in front of the Smart Board.
- Discuss the experience of being an interviewer (person asking the questions). 
            - How was the experience?
            - Was it scary?
            -  Where you nervous?
            - Would you want to do it again?
Write all answers on the Smart Board, accept all answers.

- Ask a few students to state some of their survey questions and what the interviewees answered.   
- Have a class discussion about what they learned from this interview.
            - Was it easy to ask the questions?
            - Where the questions too vague?
            - Did the interviewers have problems answering the questions?
- Compare the interviewer’s answers to the answers they came up with on the first day of the unit plan.  
            - Are they similar or different, why?  
            - What can be concluded about these statements?
- Then see if the students can come up with any more questions tha can be answered from doing these interviews. 

Blogging page & Reflections: 
- Open up the blogging page.  
- Show the students how to work the blog.  
             - Also show them how to open up the link and how to create an account.  
             - Remind the students that this site is just for class purposes; it is to type in their 
                reflections about certain topics discussed in class.    
- Allow time for them to write their response in their journals, on the computer, and on the blogging page.

Conclusion: 
- Once finished, the students must give the teacher their Language Arts duo-tang, in order to be graded. 


Before the end of class teacher must:
- Make sure all the blogs are on the site (Blogs will be read and graded by the end of the unit plan.)
-  Pick up the Language Arts duo-tangs, and grade the survey questionnaires.