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Lesson Plan
Name: Lauren Blanton and Caitlin Martinez
Grade: 2nd
Topic/Concept: All About Me and Embracing Different Cultures
Materials/Resources:
● “All About Me” sheet printed
● Book: “We’ve Got The Whole World In Our Hands” by Rafael Lopez
● Pencils/ color pencils
● Technology to present video on screen (song from our book)
● Binder (for class yearbook)
Standards:
2.C.1 Understand how various cultures influence communities.
2.C.1.1 Explain how artistic expressions of diverse cultures contribute to the community
(stories, art, music, food, etc.).
2.C.1.3 Exemplify respect and appropriate social skills needed for working with diverse
groups.
Assessment Plan (How will you know that your students met the objective?):
Students will share their “all about me sheet” and will discuss with a partner about their
differences. Will come together as a group and talk about diversity and differences.
● Teacher will assess by listening to student responses, and engagement in group
discussions.
● Students will be reminded/encouraged to share about themselves (all about me
sheet) using new language discussed during lesson.
Students will answer the questions:
● How are you like your peers? How are you different?
● What did you learn about others, and their cultures?
Elementary Education Program
Department of Teacher Education & Learning Sciences
New Vocabulary:
Content
-Culture: a pattern of behavior shared by a society, or group of people.
-Diversity: differences; people may be different in many ways, including race or ethnicity, age,
disabilities, language, culture, appearance, or religion.
-Unique: something or someone is unlike anything or anyone else.
-Similarities: sharing features or aspects.
-Differences: a point or way in which people or things are not the same
Academic language
-Compare: finding things that are similar or the same to each other.
-Represent: be entitled or appointed to act or speak for (someone), especially in an official
capacity.
-Share: giving others the same experience or opportunity with something you possess.
Note: A detailed lesson plan is specific enough for another teacher to read and teach
effectively. There should not be any question regarding what to do or how to do it.
Lesson Development (hook/engage/launch, step by step in real time, include questions you
will ask in real time, closure/revisiting learning objectives):
Hook/Launch/ Engage (5-7 minutes)
● “Today, we are going to learn all about each other, and about different cultures. Just like
you learned about all different types of schools around the world, we are going to learn
about different people around the world!”
● “We are going to start by learning about each other and our similarities and differences.”
“Can anyone tell me what a similarity is, what about a difference?” (teacher will start a
discussion about how everyone is unique - will ask students what they think the word
“unique” means-and we all have similarities and differences).
● “We are now going to learn more about each other, and our own cultures.”
● “We are going to complete a fun sheet! You get to tell us more about you” ( Teacher will
give students around 15-20 minutes to fill out “all about me sheet.”
● We will ask students what they think culture, unique, and diversity means. We will then
go over the definitions and use them in a sentence and with an example. Teacher will
gauge students’ knowledge about what they already know.
● After a discussion about culture (comparing what they already know from their “schools
around the world lesson) have them come to the carpet to listen to the book We’ve Got
the Whole World in our Hands” read by the teacher.
● Do a read aloud and ask students what they think about the pictures and how they can
relate to them. “What do you notice about the pictures?” “Do you notice anything
different about the students” “What do you predict is different about this student,
compared to this student” “Did you notice any similarities or differences?”
● Going alongside the book, students will read along to the song “We’ve Got the Whole
World in our Hands.” This song represents diversity and culture in pictures and videos.
● Play the song on YouTube and have lyrics showing so students can dance and sing along.