Lesson #7
Unit Plan: Cultural Diversity
Topic: Making my Masterpiece!
Topic: Making my Masterpiece!
Cycle Level: Cycle three/Grade 6
Duration: 75 min
Duration: 75 min
Materials:
- Blackboard
- Smart Board
- Computer room
- Computers (enough to have one computer for every child, or one per two students)
- Paper to print pictures
- Construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil, pens, markers
- Collage rubric (one per child)
- Blackboard
- Smart Board
- Computer room
- Computers (enough to have one computer for every child, or one per two students)
- Paper to print pictures
- Construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil, pens, markers
- Collage rubric (one per child)
Links:
| collage_rubric.pdf |
10 min
15 min
35 min
** Today’s class will also take place in a computer room. **
Introduction:
- Discuss, as a class, what cultural diversity is all about.
- Ask them to reflect upon the whole unit plan, and to come up with a few ways
to represent cultural diversity.
- Write their ideas on the blackboard.
- Explain to the students that today they will be representing cultural diversity through a collage.
Development:
Explanation:
- Gather the students on the floor and demonstrate how to find pictures on the internet.
- Explain that they will have to find pictures, print the pictures and make a collage.
- Tell students that they will combine the images onto one sheet of paper, and that the images may overlap each other. Demonstrate what a collage looks like. Look at this link http://www.google.ca/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-ca%3AIE-SearchBox&biw=1345&bih=504&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=examples+of+collages&aq=f&aqi=g2&aql=&oq=
- Using the Smart Board, show students how to access the Internet by clicking on the Internet Explorer icon.
- In the search bar, tell students to type in www.google.com.
- Proceed by searching for examples of images that best represent you (maybe
an animal you like, or your favourite sport.
- Show students how to Copy/Paste their selected images into a Word document.
- Explain the marking scheme.
- Display the rubric on the Smart Board and explain how the collage will be
graded (see the attached file at the top of the page).
- Remind them that creativity and originality is a key aspect
when finding pictures.
- Inform the students that the collages will be hung in the hallway outside the classroom, for all to see.
Activity:
- Allow the students to start doing their collage in class.
- Remind them to start by looking for pictures
- Do not let them bring it home.
**Students will start their collage in this lesson, but will also get time to work on it in the next class. **
Introduction:
- Discuss, as a class, what cultural diversity is all about.
- Ask them to reflect upon the whole unit plan, and to come up with a few ways
to represent cultural diversity.
- Write their ideas on the blackboard.
- Explain to the students that today they will be representing cultural diversity through a collage.
Development:
Explanation:
- Gather the students on the floor and demonstrate how to find pictures on the internet.
- Explain that they will have to find pictures, print the pictures and make a collage.
- Tell students that they will combine the images onto one sheet of paper, and that the images may overlap each other. Demonstrate what a collage looks like. Look at this link http://www.google.ca/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-ca%3AIE-SearchBox&biw=1345&bih=504&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=examples+of+collages&aq=f&aqi=g2&aql=&oq=
- Using the Smart Board, show students how to access the Internet by clicking on the Internet Explorer icon.
- In the search bar, tell students to type in www.google.com.
- Proceed by searching for examples of images that best represent you (maybe
an animal you like, or your favourite sport.
- Show students how to Copy/Paste their selected images into a Word document.
- Explain the marking scheme.
- Display the rubric on the Smart Board and explain how the collage will be
graded (see the attached file at the top of the page).
- Remind them that creativity and originality is a key aspect
when finding pictures.
- Inform the students that the collages will be hung in the hallway outside the classroom, for all to see.
Activity:
- Allow the students to start doing their collage in class.
- Remind them to start by looking for pictures
- Do not let them bring it home.
**Students will start their collage in this lesson, but will also get time to work on it in the next class. **
