UDL+Builder+on+Culture+Studies

= CAST’s UDL LESSON BUILDER =

Lesson Overview
We will begin with a vocabulary exploration to determine what ways culture is defined. The student will create a matrix to list what things they believe about culture, what the definition of culture means and what elements of culture we want to explore. Part two of the class will be to work on the various concepts of Culture such as patterns and organizations, changes in culture, diverging and converging cultures and how technology impacts culture. They will generate a series of question for a survey(use Survey Monkey) that they will be able to do with their family and friends in their neighborhoods to gather data. How they will contact those who they want to survey and process for developing and gathering the data. Students will be given a scenario to form opinions about the situation and will report out to the class answers to questions that will indicate what they think would be an issue of a cultural nature or one that would be related to some other influence. Finally, student will participate in a Jeopardy style game on the Interactive white board to check for understanding of the concepts and vocabulary learned in the day || (23, A, B) Culture (25, A, B,) Culture & Institutions ||
 * **Title: ** || Culture Studies ||
 * **Author: ** || Jo Tucker ||
 * **Subject: ** || HS Social Studies / World Geography ||
 * **Grade Level(s): ** || 9th ||
 * **Duration: ** || Unit 4 weeks ||
 * **Subject Area: ** || Social Studies ||
 * Unit Description: || This unit will focus on comparing and contrasting various cultures around the world. The focus will be to define our cultural identifiers and research in a variety of ways how students will be able to gather information about a chosen country and then what criteria they will use to compare how our culture and theirs is similar and how they are different ||
 * Lesson Description for Day: || Watch YouTube videos about various ways of dating around the world.
 * State Standards: || TEXAS TEKS: 113.C (26, A B C D) Culture in American Society

Goals
Recognize that cultures are changing and evolving. Instill appreciation and awareness of a diversity of cultures Understand how culture impacts everyone's world and what they need to know about dealing with other people regarding cultural differences || Define concepts of things that contribute to the culture of a country. Discover how culture can vary even in the same community depending on the backgrounds and variations of those who live there. ||
 * ====**Unit Goals: **==== || Understand what and how cultures are defined.
 * **Lesson Goals: ** || Create a framework of vocabulary to learn about culture.

Methods
Ask leading questions about how students would behave differently or what they noticed about the videos || A reporter will write down what is reported back using inspiration software and the others in the class will be allowed to add to the report after the report is completed. ||
 * ====**Anticipatory Set: **==== || Use YouTube video to play for students to start a discussion about cultures.
 * ====**Introduce and Model New Knowledge: **==== || Create groups of students to talk about and report back to the class about scenarios.
 * ====**Provide Guided Practice: **==== || ====Using the Inspiration we will develop a set of survey questions for the class to present to friends, family and neighbors. Students will turn in the questions they generate to be placed on the survey and will be emailed the link for the survey for an assignment to complete from home. They will email at least 5 others to take the survey. The goals will be to get a cross generational and ethnic report back from the questions for evaluation of the results in class next time or at a date to come.==== ||
 * ====**Provide Independent Practice: **==== || ====Students will respond to a class blog and journal either electronically or in a paper journal regarding the ideas they believe the learned about culture today. They will be expected to respond to what is a cultural indicator and what is not==== ||

Assessment
Formative assessment will be during the game. Though each student will be graded informally they will be able to develop a sense of correctness through the game format. The organizational chart will be used to help students see where their ideas fit with the ideas of others and the definitions for the course. ||
 * **Formative/Ongoing Assessment: ** || Ongoing assessment will be in the form of restating responses for clarification and providing support or correction for concepts. Students will be given this in the least threatening way so that they realize the there are many correct answers to many aspects of this study and that the areas of grey are things they will be dealing with throughout the lesson and throughout life.
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Summative/End Of Lesson Assessment: ** || The set of questions that students submit will be their summative assessment ||

Materials
> @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg87sSaTZSc || [] ||
 * **Video & Audio Resources**
 * What is American Culture?
 * Who are the poeple o the United State? American Culture.