Lesson #5
Unit Plan: Cultural Diversity
Topic: Food Fiesta
Topic: Food Fiesta
Cycle Level: Cycle three/Grade 6
Duration: 60 min
Duration: 60 min
Materials:
- Spacious, wide, open area
- Pencil
- Journal
- Computer room
- Computers (enough to have one computer for every child, or one per two students)
- Spacious, wide, open area
- Pencil
- Journal
- Computer room
- Computers (enough to have one computer for every child, or one per two students)
10 min
30 min
20 min
Introduction:
- Make sure each and every child brought in their appropriate foods.
- Inform the students that today’s class will be about exploring different foods.
- Disperse the foods throughout the classroom.
Development:
- The students will be dispersed across the classroom.
- They will all get opportunities to walk around the class, in order to learn and explore new foods.
- Inform the students that they must pay close attention to three foods, because they will have to write about them later.
- Encourage the students to take notes in their journal.
- Explain the written part, only once everyone got the opportunity to see everyone else’s food.
Conclusion:
- Once everyone has finished exploring, bring the classroom to the computer room and inform the students about the write-up.
- The students must blog about three different foods.
- They should explain what they saw, what they liked about this food, and what
they disliked.
- Most important, students must explain how these foods relate to our theme,
cultural diversity.
- Make sure each and every child brought in their appropriate foods.
- Inform the students that today’s class will be about exploring different foods.
- Disperse the foods throughout the classroom.
Development:
- The students will be dispersed across the classroom.
- They will all get opportunities to walk around the class, in order to learn and explore new foods.
- Inform the students that they must pay close attention to three foods, because they will have to write about them later.
- Encourage the students to take notes in their journal.
- Explain the written part, only once everyone got the opportunity to see everyone else’s food.
Conclusion:
- Once everyone has finished exploring, bring the classroom to the computer room and inform the students about the write-up.
- The students must blog about three different foods.
- They should explain what they saw, what they liked about this food, and what
they disliked.
- Most important, students must explain how these foods relate to our theme,
cultural diversity.
