COMPARE AND CONTRAST

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST

• A thinking skill

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WHY? WHEN DO WE USE IT?

• Social studies
• Writing essays
• Preparing reports
• Personal lives
• Purchasing a car
• Choosing a CD player

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TASK

• Get a piece of paper and a pen or pencil.
• Find a partner and arrange your chairs/desks so
  that you are sitting directly across from one
  another.
• Without talking or communicating in any way,
  please write down all of the characteristics you
  see which are LIKE the ones you have.
  (Example-eyes)
• Again, without talking or communicating in any
  way, please write down all of the
  characteristics you see which are DIFFERENT than
  ones you have. (Example- different hair or eye
  color)

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GOING INTO MORE DEPTH

• Think of 6 questions you would like to ask your
  partner.
• Draw a chart with two columns.
• Ask your partner the questions. Record the
  answers in the correct column.

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RULES

• Comparing looking for similarities
• Contrasting looking for differences
• The first time around look for "easy to see"
  items.
• The second time around look for more major
  differences by developing questions about the
  topic you are investigating.
• Ask yourself Who-What-Why-Where-When and How
  questions.

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APPLYING THIS SKILL TO A PROJECT

• The title of our project is Countries Around the
  World.
• Divide class into groups of 2-3 students.
• Each student chooses a country.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION - CONTINENTS
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CONTINENTS
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MORE INFORMATION
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AND EVEN MORE INFORMATION...
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MORE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION
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TEACHING VOCABULARY

• Some compare signal words are similar, like,
  still, likewise, in the same ways, in comparison,
  at the same time, in the same manner.
• Some contrast signal words are however, on the
  other hand, but, yet, nevertheless, conversely,
  rather, on the contrary, nonetheless, in
  contrast.

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CONNECTORS
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WRITING A SHORT COMPARE AND CONTRAST PARAGRAPH

• Asia is the largest continent in both area and
  population. It has 29.5 of total area and 60 of
  the total population unlike Australia that has
  only 5.9 of the total area and 0.5 of the total
  population.

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Symbolic Use of Colors in Flags

• The colors used in a flag represent the values of
  that country .
• BLACKRepresents determination, ethnic heritage,
  and/or defeating one's enemies.
• BLUERepresents freedom, justice, prosperity,
  peace, and/or patriotism

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GREEN Symbolizes the Earth, agriculture,.
fertility, and/or the Muslim religion

• REDRed often represents courage, revolution,
  blood
• WHITERepresents peace, purity, mountain snow,. A
  simple white flag represents surrender
• YELLOW(GOLD)Represents the sun, wealth, and/or
  justice.

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STUDENTS WORK -1

• Flag work (symbols)
• Locating country and continent
• Create and ID card for the country
• Continent
• Area
• Population
• Flag
• Religion
• Currency
• Languages
• Capital city

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STUDENTS WORK -2

• Write a short paragraph about the country.
  Include tourist attractions, typical food,
  festivals, etc.
• In groups Compare and Contrast the countries.
• Choose the criteria to compare and contrast.
• Make a chart/diagram of similarities and
  differences.
• Write a short compare and contrast paragraph.

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COMPARE CONTRAST QUIZ

• Find one similarity and one difference in the
  following words
• Banana
• Dresser
• Grammar
• Potato
• Revive
• Assess
• Uneven

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Thank You

• Pircha!