Cultures: The Melting Pot

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Cultures The Melting Pot

• Katelyn Tobrocke
• Lesson Plan
• Created March 28th, 2006

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Age/Group Level

• 10-12 years of age/ sixth grade.

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Introduction

• Completed at the beginning of the school year
• It will last a week.
• Culminating activity at the end of the semester.

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Materials Needed

• Colored construction paper
• Markers
• Camera
• Picture of each student
• Photoshop computer software

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Lesson Objectives At the completion of this
activity the students will be able to

• Identify each member of the class
• Describe a Melting Pot
• Describe a team
• Use a digital camera.
• Upload pictures into Photoshop.
• Edit Photos.
• Better understand different cultures.

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Introduce the Learning Activity

• This lesson will be started one day prior to the
  actual lesson.
• The students have already been introduced to the
  idea of the Melting Pot.
• I will do an example Melting Pot
• Use homework assignment that describes family
  history.
• The students have been taught how to use a
  digital camera and to upload photos and to edit
  them.

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Provide Information

• Students will break up into groups no larger than
  five students, determined by index cards.
• They will discuss the information they have
  prepared for class.
• They will compare their cultural backgrounds.
• Use books and the internet to look up information
  about their heritage.

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Provide Information Cont.

• Share information with each other and take notes
  on their backgrounds.
• Start working individually on their projects.
• Students will each design a collage on a piece of
  construction paper.
• They will use the pictures of themselves that we
  took in class.

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Provide Practice

• Keep coming back to idea of Melting Pot.
• Continue learning about cultures through reading,
  videos, and guest speakers.
• Encourage students to talk to family members.
• Immerse students in culture.

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Provide knowledge of results

• Display collages at the end of the week.
• Have students walk around and view every students
  collage.
• Share different concepts learned.
• Pass/fail project.
• Graded portion comes at end of semester with
  culminating activity.

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Review the Activity

• Review at the end of each class.
• Students keep journals.
• Review journals.
• Play the name game.

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Method of Assessment

• Read journals every night.
• Comment in the journals.
• Give written feedback on collages.
• Peer review of collages.
• Graded presentation and paper at culminating
  activity.