Lesson Title: About Our Cultures-Traditions & Unit Canadian Communities/ Looking at Subject: Social

Celebrations People

Teacher: C.Ngai Date: Dec. 14 - ongoing Grade Level: 2

Learning Outcomes:
● identify cultural characteristics of their community (CC) (2.1.3.4)
● Appreciate diversity & vastness of Canada’s land & peoples (CC,LPP) (2.1.1.2)
● Explore role of stories, traditions & events (CC, TCC)
● Participate in developing research questions (2.S.7.1)
● Follow a plan for inquiry (2.S.7.4)
● Access & retrieve information (2.S.7.4)
● use technology to create a visual (2.S.8>4, 2>S.8.6)
● present orally (2.S.8.1)
● record key words (2.S.9>1)

Overview: Strands:
explore the cultural characteristics of the communities studied and then Culture & Community
research and present information about their own communities The Land: Place & People
Time, Continuity & Change
Identity

Learning Objectives: Materials/Resources:

Students will be able to… identify & present cultural characteristics Our World
of their communities in the form of traditions or celebrations BLM:18 - Local News Now!
Complete inquiry into community celebration BLM 6: Rubric
. At conclusion of their research students present findings in oral news Telestory,
report. Canva
iPads/laptops
BLM-News self assessment page.

Introduction:
What are some things that your culture celebrates?
-Discuss other traditions in the communities being studied

Activities:
- Introduce words: tradition, celebration & storytelling - What do you think these words mean? Do you have an example
- Student resource: Read - highlight definitions of tradition & celebrations
- Study the photos (ask guiding questions)
- Read Linda’s text: ask students what they would ask about her city’s special days, repeat for Meeka & Michele.
Focus on Storytelling
- explain that celebrations & traditions are a way for citizen to connect to community’s past & one another
- - Read p.27
Ask students what they learned from Linda’s grandmother’s story - What did it teach about Linda’s past & where she lives
Read variety of selections of people telling their own stories (storytelling) - goal: students to appreciate storytelling as a way of
reflecting people’s many perspectives, experiences & voices - learn about a community’s time & history - model for students own
storytelling
Have students tell their own short stories to each other (making connection between community & themselves.
Inquiry: Traditions & celebrations
- review how to brainstorm questions to ask 5W + H, Have students research then film video report. Show short news
clips of reporters reporting on local festivals to help students understand the idea of this medium
- Students work on project - researching & planning news presentation of a personal traditional celebration.
Film presentation in the format of a News Report using Telestory app.
Upload onto digital portfolio (SeeSaw)
- Complete self -assessment
Festival: research a canadian festival - create a poster on Canva that tells about it (what, when, where)

Wrap-up/Closure: Share information gathered from group discussion with class.

Evidence of Learning (Assessment):
Evidence that children
identify cultural characteristics of their community (CC LLO TCC)
(2.1.3.1)
present information in their own words (2.S.8.1)
Adaptations/Differentiated Instruction:
Provide Visual supports and simplification of
task instructions and rewording questions

Comments/Reflection: