This second grade social studies lesson plan explores different cultures around the world. Students will listen to "It's a Small World" and discuss the song. They will then learn about traditions from various cultures by having students share about their own backgrounds. Students will color pages depicting different cultures, learn about the country and culture, and present on similarities and differences to U.S. culture. The lesson aims to help students understand nationality, diversity, and compare cultural practices and traditions.
This second grade social studies lesson plan explores different cultures around the world. Students will listen to "It's a Small World" and discuss the song. They will then learn about traditions from various cultures by having students share about their own backgrounds. Students will color pages depicting different cultures, learn about the country and culture, and present on similarities and differences to U.S. culture. The lesson aims to help students understand nationality, diversity, and compare cultural practices and traditions.
This second grade social studies lesson plan explores different cultures around the world. Students will listen to "It's a Small World" and discuss the song. They will then learn about traditions from various cultures by having students share about their own backgrounds. Students will color pages depicting different cultures, learn about the country and culture, and present on similarities and differences to U.S. culture. The lesson aims to help students understand nationality, diversity, and compare cultural practices and traditions.
This second grade social studies lesson plan explores different cultures around the world. Students will listen to "It's a Small World" and discuss the song. They will then learn about traditions from various cultures by having students share about their own backgrounds. Students will color pages depicting different cultures, learn about the country and culture, and present on similarities and differences to U.S. culture. The lesson aims to help students understand nationality, diversity, and compare cultural practices and traditions.
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Different Cultures Lesson Plan
Lesson Title: It’s a Small World: Different Cultures
Grade: Second Grade Social Studies Instructor: Ms. Jasmine Vazquez
1. Objectives: SWBAT (SS 2.1) explore nationality and diversity.
i. SWBAT (SS 2.14) Identify and compare culture practices and traditions in the U.S 2. Materials and Preparations: a. Projector/screen to show lyric video of It’s a Small World b. Globe or map of the seven continents c. Cultural Coloring pages d. Markers, crayons color pencils. 3. Instructions: a. Introductions: i. Start the class with vocabulary on Culture, Compare and contrast, and continent. ii. State that today they will learn about different cultures and that they will compare a culture with the U.S. b. Teacher Instruction: i. Start the class with It’s a Small World song. Have students listen to the song then have students give their opinion of the song. ii. After the class has heard the song have students volunteer or choose students to share where they are from and a tradition they have. Ex. A student may be from Hawaii and the way they celebrate birthday or special occasions will be with a Luau the student will then explain what consist of a Luau. iii. Explain to the children that they will choose a coloring page that is different from their culture. The students will read the small information on the coloring page; they will color the page, and present the culture they chose to the class. iv. During the presentation the students will state the content, country, and capital. They will also state what they learned from the page and will state if the U.S has something similar to what the page is stating, or they can state the difference between the U.S and the country they got. c. Student Activity: i. Students will be coloring the page that is different from the country they live in or are from. ii. Students will look in their textbook or map that is displayed in the classroom to figure out the continent of their country. iii. Student will present in front of the class their country and explain to the class some similarities or differences between the country they got and the U.S. d. Closure i. Evaluation: Students’ will be evaluated in their presentation if they were successful in reading a map to figure out the continent of their country. Student will also be evaluated on the comparison between their culture and the U.S. ii. Show the song one more time with the lyrics, have a discussion of what the song means to the now. iii. Remind students that we all come from all over and have different traditions and cultures but we are all still people, human, who have feelings so we have to be nice to everyone.