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This is where you will find me having a picnic in the beautiful Talofofo Falls with my family😉
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Si Mary Jane Nauta Nauta Yu.
I was born and raised from the beautiful village of Talofofo namely titled "God's Country because of it's high elevation from all the other villages on Guam. I am the third youngest of ten siblings. My career began when a teacher suggested I go back to school and become a teacher. I had stumbled on the same add twice advertising applicants for the Yamashita Teacher Corp. I thought of it as a sign and pursued this profession in education. I graduated Magma Cum Lade with a cohort of graduates! It was a prime time of my life going to the University of Guam. I had odd jobs and joined up with the Army National Guard. I have four grown children. One who is in the Navy stationed in Florida, the other working at the airport and going to UOG fulltime, my daughter who received two associates at GCC will be moving to higher education at UOG and my youngest who is a sophomore at Notre Dame. He will be venturing off to the military as well. I have two beautiful grand kids and daughter-in-laws. I am married to my Vietnam Veteran husband of 32 years!
I am currently pursuing a Master's
Degree program in Reading and currently under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Stoicovy and Dr. Matilda Naputi Rivera . The
Class course ED638 and ED484, Fall Intercession 2017.
ED638: Teaching with the Internet Course Objectives:
International Reading Association Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Websites
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1 (https://www.storyplace.org/
Welcome to StoryPlace!
A free virtual library designed specifically for children. This Pre-school library is full of adventures of online books that will take a child all over the world. Stories, activities, videos, list of reading materials and hands on learning and so much fun things to do! Imagine taking a trip to a place you’ve always imagine without leaving your room! It will be an experience you will never forget! Come on! Let us get started and have some fun learning to read!
Get your bags and go! We will be taking off on a plane with story
themes to choose from. Would you like to
read about animals, babies, bath time fun?
Click on a story and you will be amazed!
When you are done reading, it is time to do an adventurous activity. Clear your tray table and take out your
pencils and crayons. Don’t forget to clean
up after you are done because it is time to freshen up and read a bath time story
before going to bed.
There are five ways to raise a reader! Talking with children is one of the best ways to learn new words, vocabulary, speech, grammar, information and importantly reading. Singing with children is what they love to do. A realistic way for children to learn about language when singing these favorite nursery rhymes “The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider, ABC song” just to name a few. Incorporate learning with what they enjoy and love to do makes learning fun and motivating. Teaching phonemic awareness with songs is more enjoyable and it is an essential component in reading. Reading together, aloud or repeated reading is unavoidable. It has to be a motivating routine so that children are able to read. Children must first learn to read before they read to learn! Simply talk to them, ask questions or simply talk about an interesting picture, person or thing. Children love to retell stories they have read, so give them the opportunity to express their thoughts not just by retelling but by writing too! Writing helps children tell their stories from their individual spoken language. Children go through these development stages in spelling until they finally develop as writers by providing essential tools for them such as pencils, crayons and paper in hands view. Scribbling and illustrating on paper, children begin to learn that spoken language is text written. Last activity to get children ready to read is playing. Everyone loves to play especially children! Role playing is a natural way to teach children about the world around them, develop their language and related skills.
There are five ways to raise a reader! Talking with children is one of the best ways to learn new words, vocabulary, speech, grammar, information and importantly reading. Singing with children is what they love to do. A realistic way for children to learn about language when singing these favorite nursery rhymes “The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider, ABC song” just to name a few. Incorporate learning with what they enjoy and love to do makes learning fun and motivating. Teaching phonemic awareness with songs is more enjoyable and it is an essential component in reading. Reading together, aloud or repeated reading is unavoidable. It has to be a motivating routine so that children are able to read. Children must first learn to read before they read to learn! Simply talk to them, ask questions or simply talk about an interesting picture, person or thing. Children love to retell stories they have read, so give them the opportunity to express their thoughts not just by retelling but by writing too! Writing helps children tell their stories from their individual spoken language. Children go through these development stages in spelling until they finally develop as writers by providing essential tools for them such as pencils, crayons and paper in hands view. Scribbling and illustrating on paper, children begin to learn that spoken language is text written. Last activity to get children ready to read is playing. Everyone loves to play especially children! Role playing is a natural way to teach children about the world around them, develop their language and related skills.
StoryPlace is a children’s
digital learning library first opened to the public in 2000 and has been for
years. It has provided children and
families books, activities a library might not offer. It was originally developed with support and
contributions from Smart Start of Mecklenburg County and numerous supporters.
Literacy is simply the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. (2017, December). Literacy. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy.
Literacy is simply the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. (2017, December). Literacy. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy.
StoryPlace is an exciting website
to use for the young and old. It offers
fun, interactive themes and upcoming story time events throughout the year. Children are magnetized when reading about
topics they love with this website. This
entire website is inviting, colorful, exciting, well formatted, user friendly
and an impressive appearance to an audience!
This is a website that has a story to tell.
Shine with Starfall!
Star fall
slowly from the sky, softly twinkling
landing by. It brings great wishes for every
child to read great books with a smile! As it falls right on your feet, pick it up and
see a streak. With a blink of an eye, a
page is turned but wait! There’s much to
learn! It must be done no time to run. Starfall is for everyone!
Let’s
twinkle with the ABCs. Click on a letter
and what do you see? A letter appears
but there’s more to see. There is a
picture behind the door, Oh, what could it be?
I see, I see, it is a picture of the ABC! Hold on! Hold on! I shall click! I see a teacher singing “Oh Saint Nick”!
Starfall
is a place where children imagine and play. Starfall
offers a variety of delightful animated songs, mathematics and reading
activities that is available to download.
With a blink of an eye, you will be surprised to see the many educational
fun activities!
Starfall Website is a nonprofit organization
as a free public service and social enterprise since September of 2002. This website has been teaching children for decades and continues to
educate children from preschool to second grade. It is one effective website for children that
need that special help with phonics.
Homeschooling is available to those who are interested! Register today and be a Starfall member. One great website
that every parent and guardian must have.
Make
that wish come true. Log in and explore
the many educational fun and innovative activities that will have your child
wishing to play some more! As you gaze
through Starfall website you will be
amazed! There are so much exciting activities to
choose from. Oh! I forgot to
mention! Starfall is an interactive audio and visual teaching tool. What are you waiting for? Let’s get in the wagon and look into the
sky. When you see Star fall, stop and make a wish.
What will you wish for? I wish
for every child to learn to read!
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #3 “Storynory” http://www.storynory.com/
Welcome to Storynory!
Once upon a time there in the midst of all great
sites in the world was this story teller named “Storynory”. It is a site
for children of all ages from pre-school to junior age school kids loaded with
lots of interesting stories for all listeners.
Children will be magnetized and fall in love with these audio stories
from original stories, fairytales, myths and histories topped with sprinkles of
verse for every week. A site to visit
and mp3 files are available to download every month by popular demands from
viewers. Storynory offers a free selection of
stories for families, nurseries, schools, hospitals and every place in the
world. Stories are beautifully read to
make the listener feel as if they were a character in the story. It is beyond exciting to see children immersed
in a story with great interest! Confessions from Storynory followers as they log on to the site, listen to stories
during the day, as they travel and begin to fall asleep with a story. These original stories include “Prince
Bertie, Katie the Ordinary Witch and Astropup” and original novels only to name
a few. Children love to listen to
traditional fairytale stories such as Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Snow
Queen, The Little Mermaid and a variety of poems and music. Other stories are rewritten to entertain the
modern audience with versions of myths and legends. Most of the original stories are written by
the producer Hugh Fraser, an English actor, theatre director and author. Actors in these stories like Natasha Gostwick
whose lovely voice that children around the world have grown to know and listen
to. Most of the illustrators work
includes Bertie the Frog, Cinderella and Rumplestitskin only to name a
few.
These audio stories come with a powerful original
song specially written and performed that creates real life experiences. Stories, poems and music created by great
poets and actors in “Storynory” will
captivate the attention of an audience. As
this story comes to an end, “Storynory” is
one educational site enriched with Bible stories, vocabulary improvement, create,
learn and play with educational activities, true stories of kings, queens,
battles, inventions of people, events that changed the world, interviews of
authors, romance stories and educational workshops for children. What is a Storynory
site without Christmas stories? Just
a click away and time for the holidays, cuddling up with Christmas stories such
as the popular story titled “The Night Before Christmas”.
The Storynory End!
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4 “Story Kitchen” www.brucevanpatter.com/storykitchen.html
Welcome to Story Kitchen!
Looking
for a place to suffice the hunger of writing?
Story Kitchen is the place to choose from a list of
ingredients to creative writing! As you
open up the recipe book, you will be amazed of the bountiful of stories! Story Kitchen is the website for creative writing for
kids. Hmm! That aroma, I wonder what is cooking? Inside Story Kitchen is a place where children imagine the
many wonderful ideas and stories that are cooking deep inside their minds! Through the enchanted world of Story Kitchen, by a click of a finger, children,
parents and teachers create their very own stories. All they need to do is choose from the ingredients
by picking one hero, one place and one villain that is provided in the menu. Before you see the start of the story, you
would have to think about the choices made and how to combine the choices you
made in the story. By a click of a
button, the start of the story appears but it is not quite finish. The writer has to complete the story using
their imagination and creativity. That’s
not all, Story Kitchen loves to read the writers completed
story by the touch of the link enclosed.
Story Kitchen provides “Tips for Teachers” that
explains how to use the story generator and have students build their very own
stories. Story Kitchen is a place to inspire young writers to
be creative with their stories. If the
writer prefers not to choose from the menu, there is a quicker way of
choosing. Just click on the menu and a
list of story starters to write about and these stories can be printed to use
in the classroom or at home!
Story Kitchen provides children with a variety of Web
page activities. These include “The What-if Question Genie where the story begins with the “What if” questions. Mugshots are a great way to think and create a character
for a story. The writer chooses a face,
click and the main character appears. Another link is KidTales and these are kid-made stories of 700
student drawings to choose from. Pick a
drawing and students imagine what they will write about. The “Weird Headline Maker” which creates random headlines for the
writer. All the writer needs to do is
imagine what story made the headlines and “The Headline Maker” will produce the wackiest headlines
where weird things happen all the time.
What a great way to help the writer create a story by starting with the
wackiest headline.
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #5 KidLit TV https://kidlit.tv
Welcome to KidLit TV!
Explore the world of children’s literature through KidLit TV featured in Learning Magazine and a
winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award, the Norton Juster Award for Devotion
to Literacy and one of the American Library Association’s Great Websites For
Kids. KLTV is available in over 600,000
schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. These creators come from a diverse group of
parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators and award winning filmmakers
working together to create fun new innovative ways for kids to appreciate
reading for the rest of their lives. Explore
the world by navigating the site by categories offered with this website. The KLTV Shows, KidLit RADIO, Crafts & Activities, Book
Trailers, Reading Rocks and FOR GROWN-UPS too!
The KidLit TV shows features Story Makers, Read Out
Loud, Ready Set Draw, Young at Art and more.
Children will be entertained with all the activities provided for them,
especially drawing or learning the basic art skills from shapes to colors by a
talented illustrator. Also, children
will love to know the truth about what really happens in the library. Live coverage of special literary events by
clicking on Facebook Live and find out exclusive happenings!
Kids love adventures and by visiting KidLit TV, where they discover great stories and
communicate with the people who actually created these children’s books. KidLit TV is a place where every child would want
to visit. It is exciting and informative
destination for authors, illustrators, teachers, publishers and anyone with a
passion for children’s literature – Children’s Book Council.
KidLit TV is a big fan of kid’s websites that get
kids motivated to learn, read and interact with their peers. One of the favorite Gold Award Winning Apps
is “Toca Life: Town which is an app that
features familiar Toca Boca characters in a fully interactive town. Like Nintendo’s famous game Animal Crossing
where there are buildings, characters and hundreds of objects to move around
and manipulate. With this app, children
can solve a mystery, go grocery shopping, create their own stories and cook a
meal. This site encourages kids to
imagine, play and tell stories. It
offers children who are interested in engineering. It teaches kids how machines work with levers,
screws, wheels, axles, planes, wedges and more.
But there’s more!
Get ready for “No Time for Flash
Cards” where thousands of great ideas for early childhood education activities
for kids, kids crafts, books, letters, numbers for infant, toddlers, preschool,
kindergarten to fifth grade and teachers.
This is a place where children will have fun making crafts. What a fantastic and creative way to
reinforce learning, develop and refine fine motor skills and connect with their
peers. They can create crafts for
holidays, seasons and crafts out of recycled materials. Children learning how to save the earth by
using recycled materials to create crafts!
What a fantastic way to save our Earth!
KidLit TV offers a variety of diverse books about Christmas, Multicultural books and Native American Children’s books for kids. That is not all! Everyone can follow KidLit TV on Pinterest and Instagram, blog and Twitter. Just by submitting your email address and name, KidLit TV will send biweekly newsletters that features “best of the web” articles and videos about children’s literature delivered to your mailbox. And that’s not all, by sending an email address, you will get a peek at exclusive behind-the-scenes videos each month! Get the backstage pass to KidLit TV by sending your email and name ASAP! Don’t worry KidLit TV respects your privacy and will never share your email or any information to anyone. Find out what other people are saying about this great website on KidLit TV blog, instagram or tweeter. As you explore this awesome website communicate with others and Tweet at Twitter › @kidlittv_nyc!
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #6 “Funbrain” http://gws.ala.org/content/fun-braincom
Welcome to the #1 website - Funbrain!
Just as the title says “Funbrain” is having fun using your brains! A site for kids that offer free educational
games, videos and books to have fun with. If you are a child who likes the playground,
this site is for you! Enjoy all of your
favorite games, books and videos with a fresh new look at the playground. There is a playground for Pre-K with Fowl
Play, Lumpy Dumpy Sand Sculptures and more.
How about playing ball while improving your math skills! There is a variety of math games such as
apple catch, rock the boat, math soccer and more. Pig pile for those who love to take chances
stacking up pigs without having them fall on you and if you like the blizzard
cold air, there is frost bite games for all grades! How about those kids that love
adventure? Take an adventure with Mighty
Guy 2 and escape the dangers riding on a jet ski, jumping over buoys and
sharks. Then climb up a mountain and
dodge the falling boulders! The game
controls let you maneuver easily through the games. Mighty Guy 2 has related content for you to
watch for free! Why buy games from the
mall, Funbrain games is one of the most inserting and fun place for
kids.
A Funbrain Zone is the webs new portal of Arcade games, kid games,
barbie games, toy story games. Who would
ever thought learning math could be so much fun with these interesting games
that are appropriate for Elementary and Middle School aged youth. Easy to use, just click on your grade level
and explore exciting games. Don’t
forget, this site includes resources for teachers, parents, caregivers and all.
Funbrain
360 is the #1 website
for kids that offers an array of topics to choose from. These are animals, the arts, history and
biography, literature & languages, mathematics & computers, social
science and science. If you would like
to venture off from the site, check out the reference desk. It has great links, library & school
sites and the look it up tool for you to use.
Funbrain is an educational browser game website for kids and
adults, offers more
than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and
literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety
of popular books and comics on the site. It was this site that “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” was first
published before being turned into a successful book series and movie
franchise. A family education network
that has millions and millions of viewers playing and visiting the site per
day. Browse and navigate with Funbrain. If you like a
particular game and would like to share with friends, just click on the shared
icon. Kids will surely love to play
games online for free with Funbrain!
Children love to play games, so, what would be a creative way to open a child’s mind to poetry with online poetry games! All of the games are perfect distraction for rainy days or quiet afternoon at home. What a better way to spend the day having fun learning poetry and other skills! It is fun, educational and most of all the BIG word FREE! There is a large list of titled games on the menu. What makes this a perfect site because as children are reading poetry, they are learning how to spell, type, build skills in sentence structure while having a blast at the same time!
The author Kenn Nesbitt is known to be the next Children’s Poet Laureate and has written numerous books of poetry for children. His collection of poems are great for reciting and reading. Poetry4Kids website provides lessons in poetry writing for children such as “How to Write Funny Poetry, Rhythm in Poetry, Poetic Forms, Other Poetic Styles and Reciting Poetry.
Teachers do not have to write lessons in poetry, Poetry4Kids has it all! What is interesting is “A Poetry dictionary and rhyming word list” waiting to be played with. All of these lessons provide the assistance that will help children write their very own poems. If you are looking to have fun with poetry, Poetry4Kids is just the place to navigate. Poetic adventures to use at home or the classroom when celebrating holidays making crafts, activities, parties and fun filled worksheets in a variety of topics.
Would you like to listen to Kenn Nesbitt’s poetry reading live? Just visit the URL, Poetry4Kids, poetry reading with a small group at Barnes & Noble in Spokane, Washington. He read a poem from each of his books on September 21, 2016.
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #7 “Poetry4Kids” http://www.poetry4kids.com
Buenas Yan Hafa Adai to “Poetry4Kids”
A
site gushing with lots of funny poems! A
playground of poetry waiting to be discovered by children. That’s not all, the author Kenn Nesbitt has written
classic poetry, games, poetry lessons, activities and rhyming dictionary. Watch videos and visit the school site for
more information regarding dates to remember.
Besides listening
to funny poems, there are newest poems to read and rate such as “After Thanksgiving,
Frank the Friendly Alien and Deep Sea Dance”.
And if you do not find the poem you are looking for, there is a search
site bar for your convenience. Children love to play games, so, what would be a creative way to open a child’s mind to poetry with online poetry games! All of the games are perfect distraction for rainy days or quiet afternoon at home. What a better way to spend the day having fun learning poetry and other skills! It is fun, educational and most of all the BIG word FREE! There is a large list of titled games on the menu. What makes this a perfect site because as children are reading poetry, they are learning how to spell, type, build skills in sentence structure while having a blast at the same time!
The author Kenn Nesbitt is known to be the next Children’s Poet Laureate and has written numerous books of poetry for children. His collection of poems are great for reciting and reading. Poetry4Kids website provides lessons in poetry writing for children such as “How to Write Funny Poetry, Rhythm in Poetry, Poetic Forms, Other Poetic Styles and Reciting Poetry.
Teachers do not have to write lessons in poetry, Poetry4Kids has it all! What is interesting is “A Poetry dictionary and rhyming word list” waiting to be played with. All of these lessons provide the assistance that will help children write their very own poems. If you are looking to have fun with poetry, Poetry4Kids is just the place to navigate. Poetic adventures to use at home or the classroom when celebrating holidays making crafts, activities, parties and fun filled worksheets in a variety of topics.
Would you like to listen to Kenn Nesbitt’s poetry reading live? Just visit the URL, Poetry4Kids, poetry reading with a small group at Barnes & Noble in Spokane, Washington. He read a poem from each of his books on September 21, 2016.
Internet tools/Resources Reviews
The three tools/resources are “Learn Out Lou , Google Earth and
RCampus” I chose to write reviews/articles on the effectiveness in
education.
My first internet tool is the “Learn Out Loud” https://www.learnoutloud.com. You will be amazed of the array of enriching
resources on this website. This website offers free courses, free audiobooks, video
titles and free documentaries to learn from. Begin searching from over 50,000 educational
audio books, podcasts and videos! Learn Out Loud makes online courses meaningful and accessible. When speaking, the learner remembers
information better, listening to others increased the ability to reach learning
objectives and the feeling as if you were in the classroom collaborating with
others. This tool ensures that learning
is accessible to all students for the hearing, visually impaired and supports
students with disabilities and accommodations to students who need the
services. Learning out loud is used
as an effective tool in communication skills essential in developing critical
listening and speaking skills for student’s higher educational
experiences. There is more! Learning
out loud extends even further that improves students social and emotional
elements of learning by verbally conversing with one another in a multimodal
learning environment. Learning Out Loud has the choice of
learning right at home with family or venture off with other students worldwide. Students learn through reading, creating,
playing, storytelling designing and much, much more! A reason to take classes on the web that are
taught in a way that gets students physically, emotionally and intellectually
involved in the subject matter. It
provides a private web page for families to access, stay connected to lessons
taught and monitor class as a family. A
website to use individually or as a group in a positive, fun and challenging
learning environment that provides all to Learn
Out Loud!
Google Earth earth.google.com provides the ability to explore the world by a click of a
finger! My intention in choosing Google Earth is it serves as a virtual
3D fieldtrip for students to explore, visit and learn about in comfort. Perfect to integrate content lessons by
viewing a particular location with this resource. Students will have an adventure with fun
interactive stories from around the world.
A brand-new version of Google
Earth opens up in 3D to view the world with innovative and exciting new
stories. Students can extend their
experiences visiting the interactive guided tours compiled by some of the
world’s leading storytellers, scientists and nonprofits to bring the planet to
live! A fun and exciting tool to learn
about the numerous natural treasures, six habitats, islands and mountains to
jungles. Learn about the wildlife in 3D
and the national parks worldwide and who wouldn’t stop to visit Lola, one of
the 12 little monsters in Sesame Street?
Explore and learn about the hidden gems the world over with 20,000 different
places with a click of a button that will take students to an array of
adventures. Once students decide their
point of interest to visit and learn, Google Earth offers a “Knowledge Card” to
open and learn the history, facts about a particular place which includes a
selection of related pictures by flipping from one of the stacks of cards with
this tool. From where you virtually
stand, families can pinpoint your exact location and have a fun filled
adventure with them. There is no place
like home in Google Earth with related articles such as experiencing the total
solar eclipse, fly to a destination and walk inside places thousands of miles
away in incredible detail without stepping into a classroom or opening up a textbook. Just zoom in and step into an adventurous
world of wonders with Google Earth!
RCampus www.rcampus.com is an online tool of learning, assessment in managing
courses where any faculty and students can use without the need to setup
servers or an institution which they can have access for life. RCampus
is an open-access generated rubric building and sharing tool. A tool system that requires little to no
training or a single email support needed. Its simplicity do not require a
user’s manual but RCampus strive to
keep the system simple but powerful tool for everyone to use. It covers a wide range of needs such as
conducting authentic assessments, track competencies at any level, promote
student competency, ensure educational quality, track, monitor reports. RCampus is a Learning Management System
platform to manage course materials, share resources, evaluate quizzes and
grades, communicate and interact with students.
It offers ePortfolios to easily organize and showcase collections of
work, reflections and assessments in multi-page webfolios for a variety of
needs such as school, work application, personal interest, career and
more. Join the RCampus eCommunity portal that is easily available to build a
community study group, clubs, committees and departments. Groups can collaborate, build calendars, communicate
through message boards and publish their work online with ease. It is one user friendly website for all skill
levels to create a rich filled and group websites in support of their efforts
in an electronic environment using the RCampus
online tool.
GEO-NARRATIVE
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Unit/Theme Title:
Social Studies: World History “How Are People Different”
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Description:
This
lesson is to teach students about “Cultural Diversity” and helps them develop
empathy for others. It is okay to be
different and it helps them understand the differences among people because
of their racial or ethnic background, language, dress and traditions. Students will value the different ways in
which people interact and live in the world as they reflect on what they have
learned by exploring Google Earth.
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Goals and Objectives:
Goals: Is to teach students that “Cultural Diversity”
is having a variety of cultures or human societies within a specific region
of the world. They see the world in 3D
by exploring differences and similarities of a particular place.
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Grade Level:
First
Grade
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Standards:
1.1.3 Explain that people on Guam and in the U.S.
have different religious, community and family celebrations, customs and
describe celebrations and customs held by members of the class and students’
own families.
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Duration:
45
minutes
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Skills Addressed:
Collaborate,
written expression, identification, vocabulary, compare and contrast, journal
writing, respect individuality
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Key Vocabulary:
Cultural,
diversity, respect, interpretation, customs, compare, contrast, collaborate,
regions, reflect, Google Earth, navigate, 3D imagery, landforms, simulator
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Materials:
Laptop
and access to Google Earth, world map, writing paper, projector, speakers,
journals, board, blank chart paper, crayons, pencils
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Resources:
Note
taking skills, writing and asking good questions, team work, collaboration,
respect differences
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SIOP Features*
(See 6
components below and checkmark boxes that apply.)
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1. Preparation
2. Integration of Processes
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3. Scaffolding
 oModeling
4. Application
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5. Group Options
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6. Assessment
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Lesson Sequence: Prep laptop and internet, write down topics
such as buildings, food, clothing, weather, cars. Place these in a can for students to choose
from.
Session 1:
Anticipatory
Setting:
1.
Introduce the
topic of diversity by drawing students’ attentions to their differences and
similarities. Have students stand up
when asking these example questions:
Ask
students if they can think of other differences. Why is it important to share these
differences? What can they help us
understand about one another?
2.
Write the world diversity on the board and ask
students if they know what it means.
Write down all responses on the board working towards the definition
of “Being different from each other”.
3.
Show “It’s Okay to Be Different” video to the
students https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+on+it+is+okay+to+be+different&&view=detail&mid=E3D512ADB13B36BE5299E3D512ADB13B36BE5299&&FORM=VDRVRV
4.
Have them share what they learned from the video
about the meaning of diversity.
5.
As a whole group ask students “Do you know anyone
who is like the characters in the video?
Which of the characters in the video is like you? Who do you hear in the video? Does he sound like you? Do you think being different is
awesome?
6.
Inform the students they will be taking a field trip
to Japan and they will need to focus their attention to the differences and
similarities between Guam and Japan in regards to (buildings, clothing, weather,
etc.).
7.
Each student will pick a topic of interest that they
will focus on as they take a virtual field trip to Japan.
8.
Inform students at the end of the virtual field
trip, they will share what they have learned about the differences and similarities
between Guam and Japan in regards to the topic they have choose.
9.
Remind students to focus on their topic as they take
a trip. Begin the flight simulator
and students will take a trip to various sites of Japan from their seats.
10. Whole group
collaboration about the differences and similarities between Guam and Japan
on the board or chart paper.
11. Inform students
that they will be grouped to construct a “Graffiti Board.
12. Group students
and have each group write down “Cultural Diversity” in the middle of the
chart paper. Each person in the group
will write/draw their interpretation of what it means to them.
13. Display the
groups Graffiti Boards around the room and have them look what other groups
have created.
GATE: Students will navigate on Google Earth and
choose a location they want to explore.
They are to search for celebrations and traditional practices of that
particular region of the world. They
will write an informational paragraph and share it with their peers.
Differentiate
Instruction: For students who need
extra assistance, they can explore with a peer buddy to do the assignments.
Session 2: With Google Earth, students will discuss
the different landforms on Guam. After
the discussion, with Google Earth we will pinpoint the island of Guam. Students will take another simulator trip
around the island and view in 3D the landforms on Guam. As an activity, students will depict their understanding
of the different landforms with clay or drawing paper.
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Reflections:
Students
are to reflect on what they have learned about “Cultural Diversity” by
writing in their journal logs.
Students are to draw something significant about Japan that intrigued
their interest.
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*Adapted from the SIOP
Model for English Language Learners.
Google Earth Lesson
Plan sample: http://www.gelessons.com/lessons/newlessonfiles/whereareyoufrom.html
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