Global Awareness

I realized I posted my initial discussion as a comment, so I am posting it here as well.

I chose the Global Community Country Investigation on the ePals Community website. This activity requires students to research various aspects of a country (political structure, culture/social aspects, economics, physical features and any addition information students found) and share their findings with the class. I added to this by having students work in groups to complete their research, and then put together either a power point or a Prezi presentation which students use a means for sharing their information. I chose to incorporate this lesson into ELA. This activity lends itself nicely to the 3rd grade research standard, as well as speaking and listening. Students must complete a short research project as one of the standards. This lesson would not take much more than a week or two. Students also must report on a topic or text, giving appropriate details and speaking clearly. The presentation part of this lesson gives students practice with that standard. This activity is considered to promote global awareness because students are learning about various countries and sharing this with their fellow classmates. This will provide students with a foundation of what global awareness is and the fact that there are similarities and differences among different countries and cultures.

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Permalink Reply by Deb Unruh Miller on June 20, 2014 at 12:44pm

Jillian, I also posted mine as a comment. Your post alerted me to the need to make it a discussion post, so thank you for the heads up! I also did my lesson on ePals. I love the idea of your students learning about other countries from the site, and then coming back and sharing out their findings through powerpoint and other kinds of research presentations. I can see that students would be really excited about this, and I think it would dramatically increase interest in other countries and cultures. One great complaint about Americans is that we are out of touch with the rest of the world. Doing an activity like this would certainly improve that by generating awareness of other countries and cultures.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Curley on June 22, 2014 at 8:25pm

I love the fact that a research project is included in 3rd grade. Are you going to give them a list of countries for them to chose from or can they chose any country? I love the presentation aspect because so often students struggle speaking infront of their peers. Students are usually interested in learning about how students in other countries and cultures live and complete the same daily tasks. Great idea.

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