Day Two

Grade Level: 4-5

Lesson Submitted by: Katherine Diehl kdiehl@gjcs.k12.in.us

Time: 30 minutes

Objective: Students will be able to find information about a different culture using the internet.

This Lesson meets the Indiana Academic Standard (Grade 5) in Language Arts: Standard 2: Reading Comprehension

-Students read and understand grade-level appropriate material....

MEETS: 5.2.3 and 5.2.4

-For more information about the standards visit www.doe.state.in.us/standards/welcome.html

Materials needed: computers (internet accessible)

Student Materials needed: paper, pencils

Procedure:

Review with students about what a custom is.

Separate children into six equal groups.

Each group gets one of the following custom groups;

Diwali, Rosh Hashanah, Japanese, Chinese, TET, and American

The groups are responsible to find information about their custom group. Let the children work as a team to find information on the internet about their group.

Have children start at the INFORMATION STATION.

Have the students find their custom group and research information about when it is celebrated, who celebrates it, how long they celebrate, what do they do to celebrate, what kinds of food do they eat, etc.. you can add more to the list. The information station should be a good start for your students. There is also other good web-sites to visit under each custom group.

Assessment: Assess the students on how much information they can find today.