|
Lesson Title: Experiencing Nature
Name: Judith Lambert-Winfield, Dale Williams, Debbie
Davis
School: Martin Luther King Middle
Grades taught: 7th /8th grade
Grade appropriate: 7th grade
Discipline taught: Foreign Language
Disciplines appropriate: FLEX and Japanese
Duration: 2 days. Classes meet daily for 45 minutes.
Big idea: Cultural Ambassadors.
MD Content Standard Connection:
English
Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and
analyze information.
Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations with
different audiences, purposes, and formats.
Social Studies/ Geography
Students will use geographic concepts and processes to examine the role
of culture, technology and the environment in the location and distribution
of human activity and spatial connections throughout time.
Foreign Language
Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture
through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship
between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other
disciplines through the foreign language
Lesson Objectives: Students will visit the National
Arboretum in order to observe a variety of flora in order to distinguish
plants of Eastern and Western origin
Abstract: This lesson will allow students to visit the
National Arboretum and view a variety of plants that originated in both
the East and the West. Students will record their observations and share
their experiences with classmates on their return to school.
Lesson Components: (Possible components might include)
- Motivation/Warm Up - Students will list three details about Japanese
poetry that they learned from the previous unit.
- Modeling – The teacher explains the plans for the visit to
the National Arboretum. Students will be told about what they can expect
to see: Bonsai plants, shrubbery, and various gardens. As cultural ambassadors,
students are expected to note the variety of foliage of the Eastern
and Western worlds. They will be expected to share this newly acquired
information with their classmates upon returning to school. Students
will receive a questionnaire to place in their journal for use at the
Arboretum and the teacher will review questions with students.
- Guided Practice – Students will tour the National Arboretum
with a docent and discover the culturally rich history of the exhibits
and gardens.
- Independent Practice – Students will write their answers to
the questionnaire, their reactions, and reflections about what they
learned at the exhibit/gardens.
Assessment – Students will earn participation points for listening
and cooperating on the guided tour. Students will collect their thoughts
about the Arboretum tour and their reactions to share with the class
the following day. They will be given assessment points for their efforts.
- Closure/Summary - Students will bring a tactile representation to
class that reflects their thoughts/feelings and reflections about the
trip and describe their experiences.
Materials/Resources: (Specify if for teacher or student
use)
Plans for Lesson Assessment:
- Journal entries will reflect student understanding
- Complete answers to questionnaires
- Successful field trip and cooperative students
Keywords: National Arboretum questionnaire Japanese,
Journal, tactile representation, flora
|