The activity that I developed for the Global Awareness Lesson involved the use of the ePals website where students can be pen pals with students from another country. The students in my lesson will be communicating with students that live in Mexico. While communicating with these students, they are to ask questions about culture and life in Mexico. This will encourage them to develop an understanding of the differences between their culture and Mexican culture.

The essential questions for this lesson are:

  1. How can we use technology to learn and share information about other cultures in Mexico?
  2. How are children from other cultures around the world similar and different from me?
  3. How can I present information to an audience?

After getting information from their ePal, students will take the information they learned and create a pamphlet to share the information with others. This lesson provides a different global experience and allows students to learn about other cultures around the world. It provides them a first hand experience talking with other students and learning about how their own culture is the same and different than others. This will create a global and cultural sensitivity. 

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We did very similar projects Ashley!  I find it interesting that your students are creating a pamphlet to share with the rest of the classroom!  What an awesome idea!  Do you think that the flyers will be very different because they are each talking with different children or similar? 

I'm sure that parts of the pamphlet will be similar and that other parts will be a bit different. I'm sure it will also depend on different parts of the country. For instance, if two peers are from different parts of Mexico there may be some differences in the cultures.

Thank you for sharing your global lesson.  I, too, used the ePals website.  I like how students will be communicating with other students from Mexico, researching and acquiring information and creating a product as well as doing a comparison analysis and relating another culture to their own.  It seems that in communication, students will be able to practice saludos (greetings), vocabulary and holidays/celebrations in Spanish and learn various cultural things, such as foods, games, music, etc. that they can incorporate in their own lives.

Ashley,

I like your essential questions. I think that creating something tangible as a part of the lesson really helps to reinforce what was learned through the activity. I developed my lesson around the theme of cultural sensitivity as well. Very nice use of technology to bring it all together!

Hi Ashley,

I really enjoyed your lesson.  Your essential questions fit in perfectly with this unit.  I also used ePals for my global awareness lesson.  I think it is a great way to make connections to other students all over the world, and to engage our students here!  I love the idea of having students make pamphlets.  That is a great way for them to organize and present what they learned.  Thanks for sharing!!

This lesson does seem as though it would create global and cultural sensitivity.  Since Mexico is so close to the US it is easy to see how important it is for students to not only about their culture, but to understand it. Encouraging students to develop an understanding of the differences between the US and Mexico will ultimately make the students smarter because they will see the world we live in as a global world.  The students will not just focus on the US as the center.  They wil see that all people, cultures, societies are important.  This lesson helps students to think outside the 50 states and this knowledge will make them more culturally aware students/people.  

Ashley,

I found it very interesting you mentioned that your students would make pamphlets. I am a physical education teacher so my knowledge about Common Core and Smarter Balance is limited but I've heard that a possible assessment would be for students to make pamphlets. Looks like your students will be one step ahead of the game!

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