Lesson #3
Unit Plan: Cultural Diversity
Topic: Detective Time – part 2
Topic: Detective Time – part 2
Cycle Level: Cycle three/Grade 6
Duration: 60 min
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
- 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
10 min
15 min
32 min
3 min
** Today’s class will also take place in a computer room. **
** Before starting class, the teacher must create a site where students can blog, for example mediapress.com**
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.
** Before starting class, the teacher must create a site where students can blog, for example mediapress.com**
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.