Class: 7th Grade/Social Studies
Teacher:Lee Ann Erickson Unit: Trade and Culture
Date: 11/03 Topic: Eastern Hemisphere Geography
Lesson Title:Culture Review and Mapping Exercise
Objectives:
Students will be able to identify multiple elements that makeup culture.
Language Objective:
Students will do a "quick write" and interpret the lesson and apply it to their own life.
Students will share verbally their opinions on pictorial representations of culture during the lesson.
Adaption
**IEP and ELL students will receive extra instruction for clarification and extra time if needed.
Materials/Resources needed:pencils or pens, station signs, color pencils, personal atlases, computer, class set of laminated maps and/or globes, google presentation
Note to self:
Write on the board Agenda items:
1. Review “What is Culture”
2. Start Personal Atlas
3. Exit Pass-What is Culture Quick Write
4. Homework- “Trade” Reading Due 11/4
Welcome/Fill in Agendas and settle down.
Please fill in your agendas I have someone to introduce you to and a quick presentation.
Let’s refocus, eyes on me.
First I want to hand you back your notes from yesterday. I looked through them last night and I was very happy with what I saw. Your focus and effort yesterday really paid off, based on your notes you were listening and participating as well as understanding what we were talking about, most of you have very little to add to what you’ve written. Some of you need some clarification and a few of you needed more time to write and you’ll get that right now during the presentation. You’ll notice I’ve circled some things on your notes. Some of them are just spelling or grammar items I would like you to fix, but some of them are questions meant to help you clarify your notes. As you get your notes back read what I’ve written, if you don’t understand what I’ve marked, please hang on to your question, watch the presentation and during our next activity I’m going to walk around and talk to you individually and you can ask your questions then. After you get your notes back, take them with you if you need to move and get to a place where you can see the screen, that might mean you need to come up here with a chair, but you can stay at your workstation if you can see there too. I need two volunteers to help pass notes out please. (10 min)
Set
What kinds of cultures are there in the world? Where does culture exist? Can there a be a culture based on fashion or art? We are going to look at some pictures and try and answer these questions.
*Culture presentation (Google Presentation) and discussion.
(15 min)
Closure: Quick Write-What is Culture? Use your own life or make one up to describe what culture is.
Set
Thank you everyone. I would like everyone to keep your notes with you for now. That way during this next activity I can help clarify my notes to you and you can ask questions if you need to. Please go back to your desk and clear some space for our next activity.
transition 2 min
Let’s refocus, all eyes on me please.
Input
Our next activity is to revisit the new geographical features we talked about earlier in the week and that I asked you to recall on your continents and ocean quiz you did Tuesday. Most of you attempted all four of the criteria I asked you to put on it, do you remember what those items were?
1. All the continents and oceans
2. 4 hemispheres
3. 2 global dividing lines
4. 10 countries we talked about.
In a moment I am going to pass out a copy of this atlas to each of you. What do you notice about this map though? It’s only the Eastern Hemisphere because that is what we are focusing on right now. On this atlas you are going to label the four criteria that we just listed, I’ve written them on the board too, and then you will also add the other geographical features we covered on Tuesday. Can you remember one of those features? Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Gobi Desert, Sahara Desert, Tibetan Plateau, Yangtze (Yellow) River, Himalayan Mountains, and The Nile River. I put an example of how I did mine, up on the board here if you want an idea about how to do this. We are going to be putting 4 elements on this map by the time you finish next week. The first is labeling the continents and countries; the second is the geographical features we just mentioned. Next week we will talk about cultural centers and cities and then the fourth item will be trade routes. So keep this in mind when you are building your map. Your grade will be based on your organization and how well it can be read and interpreted and whether or not you have all of these elements. I would recommend using a different color for each element, but that is just my suggestion. Again I’ve posted an example on the board.
There are colors pencils up here please work quietly at your desks, and I’ll walk around to answer questions.
Can I have two different volunteers to help pass out these maps?
(10 min)
Work on maps for the remainder of the class.
Note: If there is time we’ll play a game: Whozit, Whatzit?
Example:Docked Hearse Whose (Clue: person) -- Dr. Seuss
Independent Practice: Reading Homework Due Friday 11/04
Total 58min
Daily Reflection
The lesson today went pretty much as I expected that it would. I was able to get the students settled into their desks fairly quickly and once they had written in their agendas I asked began the “What is Culture” presentation. They seemed to really enjoy some of the images that I had put into it and were really interested in the pictures I included about graffiti and Harajuku Girls as cultures. They brought up some good questions and listed quite intently, additionally as we went through the slides we made guesses as to what the rest of their culture might be like based on what they were looking at. After the presentation was done they went back to their desks and did a quick write for the closure. The question I asked them to answer was “What is Culture” and they were allowed to use either their own life, or make one up, but they had to keep in mind the elements we have discussed as well as the presentation they watched.
After I had taken in their Exit Pass, we only had about 20 minutes left in the class so I passed out their blank map of the Eastern Hemisphere they would use to create their own “Personal Atlas” and asked them to get a start on filling in the criteria I listed above. The remainder of the class was pretty relaxed. I did not get a chance to talk to each of the students about their Cornell Notes from the previous, but I did say to them again that if they had any questions about the notes I wrote then to please see me after school or the next day.
We did end up running out of time and I was not able to play the game with them.
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