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Unit of Instruction

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Our Unit Called Asia

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 1**

Unit: Continent Focus: Asia

Assignment Type: Social Studies

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand the difference between American traditions and Japanese traditions. Student will be able to know the dates of the four most important holidays in Japan. Student will understand the customs of Japanese holidays.

Time required to complete this lesson:one hour

Title of lesson: Holidays in Japan

Resources/materials needed:

Description of lesson: For this lesson we will be exploring the traditions and customs of Japanese holidays. Students will be listening to me explain the four most important and most celebrated holidays in Japan. Students will be hearing this through me and also have a word document to refresh their memory by playing key concepts from my lesson.

Next students will work on the computer [|**ZOOM SCHOOL Japan by Enchanted Learning Software**] by [|**ZOOM SCHOOL Japan by Enchanted Learning Software**] to explore for themselves about Japan. Next we will make a timeline of all the holidays in Japan and hang it in our classroom.

Assignment: Students will work on a timeline of the holidays and take a short online quiz to critque their understanding of the holidays.

Technology used: The technology used was the internet for our learning software, microsoft word with sound, and power point to show pictures as examples of of Japanese holidays.

The technolgy helps students gain a greater knowledge of the way Japan celebrates their main holidays. It helps students see real examples in the form of pictures, helps them explore and interact on the internet through the enhanced learning software, and helps students teach themselves knowledge that may have been recieved better through technology.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 2**

Unit: Continent Focus:Asia

Assignment Type: Social Studies

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand the concepts of equality and inequality. Student will be able to read and create basic charts and graphs. Student will understand concepts of weather in China.

Time required to complete this lesson: two hours

Title of Lesson: How Cold is it Outside?

Resources/materials needed:

Description of Lesson: For this lesson about weather we will begin with a scavenger hunt on the internet. Students will be able to search the web for answers to questions I have given them. After going over the questions as a class we will discuss bar graphs and charts. The class will be given graph paper and a fact sheet. We will take the statistics about weather in Beijing and make a bar graph.

Assignment: This assignment will be done in class.

Technology used: Internet and Power point

Students will get a depper look into using the internet. The internet is an important tool to know as it is used every day. I will be able to show my students as many pictures, facts, and statistics on the internet I couldn't have found otherwise.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 3**

Unit: Continent Focus: Asia

Assignment Type: Research Project

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand why dragons are significant to the Chinese. Student will be able to identify what the different colors of the dragons represent. Student will understand the history of the Chinese dragons.

Time required to complete this lesson: one day

Title of Lesson: Chinese Dragons

Resources/materials needed: These are the books we will be reading-[] Research Project-[]

Description of Lesson: Students will be given a list of questions to research and some links to great sites that will provide informatin about the history and significance of dragons in the Chinese culture. After answering questions they will do an activity. The activity will be makeing dragons out of clay and showing the students knowledge about the meaning of different colors of the dragons. Then students will present their projects to the class and explain why they choose those colors.

Assignment: Homework assignment will be done in class.

Technology used: Internet

Technology used in this lesson will make learning more attainable to students. It will let students see real life dances using Chinese dragons and see how dragons are used in the Chinese culture.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 4**

Unit: Continent Focus: Asia

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand the folklore of //Tikki Tikki Tembo.// Student will be able to identify what folklore means and what this story means culturally to Asia. Student will understand how to write a folklore.

Time required to complete this lesson: one day

Resources/materials needed: //Tikki Tikki Tembo// book, computers, pencil, and paper

Description of Lesson: Students will be taught facts about folklore and the impact it has had and still has on Asia. Our class will read the book //Tikki Tikki Tembo// and then discuss it. Then they will be shown the example of the comic I have made on ToonDoo and then make there own comic based on the story. Here is the example I will provide for them[|Comic Book] Assignment: Homework assignment will be done in class.

Technology used: Internet

Technology used in this lesson will make learning fun for the student. When the students learn how to make their own comic books by using the internet they will want to use the program more makeing them better at using technology.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 5**

Unit:Continent Focus: Asia

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand Japanese holidays. Student will be able to compare United States tradional holidays and Japanese holidays. Students will understand the difference in holidays.

Time required to complete this lesson: one day

Resources/materials needed: internet

Description of Lesson: Students will learn more about the customs and traditions involved with Japanese holidays. They will then create there own timelines of holidays we have in America after looking at my example of my timeline from Japanese holidays. Then the ywill compare and contrast the dates. Here is my example I will provide for students:[|Timeline] media type="custom" key="7618605"

Technology used: internet

Technology used in this lesson will help students understnad what a timeline is. Technology used in this lesson will make learning fun for students and encorage them to want to continue learning.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 6**

Unit: Continent Focus: Asia

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand the differnces between American classrooms and Thailand classrooms. Student will be able recognize the differences in the two countries. Student will understand what a typical school day is like in Thailand.

Time required to complete this lesson: one day

Title of Lesson: Let's go to Tahiland for a Day

Resources/materials needed: internet

Description of Lesson: Students will learn the differences between Thailand and United States schools. Then they will create a picture project on flockdraw on what they think a school in Thailand would look like. Then each student will present their pictures and explain to the class what they drew.

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Technology used: internet and projector

Technology learning in this lesson will allow students to use there creativity. This program will allows students to use the tools provided in the web 2.0 tool.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 7**

Unit Continent Focus: Asia

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand Vietnamese culture. Student will be able to count to ten in Vietnamese. Student will understand how diverse Vietnam is.

Time required to complete this lesson: one day

Title of Lesson: Vietnam

Resources/materials needed: video, paper, pencil, internet

Description of Lesson: Students will wactch a video called World Cultures for Children which provides students with the understanding of diversity in classrooms. Then we will learn how to count to ten in Vietnamese.

Technology used: internet

Technology in this lesson will allow students to view the culture first hand and get a visual idea of how Vietnam is.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 8**

Unit Continent Focus: Asia

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand the importance of exploration in Asia. Student will be able to make a collaborative map of inventions. Student will understand the impact of inventions of the 1400's.

Time required to complete this lesson: one day

Title of Lesson: Age of Exploration

Resources/Materials needed: internet Description of this lesson: Students will learn through animated maps and colorful live-action images from around the world. Students learn how people lived in the year 1400. They will discover how new inventions made exploration possible. They will learn how Europe's trade with Asia was conducted and discover how constraints on that trade helped give rise to the age of exploration. Then students will all participate in makeing a collaberative word map.

Technology used: internet

Technology used in this lesson will allow students to have fun learning and makeing a map. This will help put together students ideas about inventions in a very non complicated way.

Grade Level: First
 * Lesson 9**

Unit Continent Focus: Asia

Lesson Objectives: Student will understand the impact of technology. Student will be able to communicate with a real Tawian classroom. Student will understand what a typical day is like in Tawian.

Time required to complete this lesson: one day

Title of Lesson: E Cards

Resources/Materials needed:internet

Description of lesson: Students will get to communicate with a classroom in Taipe Tawian. The school is called Wharton Language Center, After discovering what a school is like on a typical school day they will make E cards and sen them.



Technology used:internet

Technology used in this lesson will make learning about other culture exciting for students and allow them to interact with students from another country.