Slide #4

In this lesson, the teacher has the students flip to a bubble map in their Wonders book. They write examples of traditions in the center and the teacher writes them on the whiteboard. The class comes up with examples together, and sometimes they have further discussions and add more bubbles. The teacher uses the example of Japanese culture where they take off their shoes before entering the house. The students also get a chance to talk about their own cultural traditions. Students will then flip to the next page in their Wonders book where there's a bubble map. We write examples of traditions in the center. I'm also writing this down on the whiteboard. It's a whole group activity. And then as a class, we come up with some examples of traditions. And sometimes the students will even say three bubbles isn't enough and we'll have a further discussion, maybe even add some more bubbles and talk about certain things. So the example that I used for this specific lesson and sometimes that I tell them is, hey, in Japanese culture, they have to take off their shoes before they enter the house. That's something that they do based off of their culture. And then I even ask them, is there anybody in here that has specific traditions based off of their culture? And then that gives students a chance to talk about their culture for the lesson.