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Lesson Plan and Activities Lesson 2: Looking Closer at Culture and Values
What is culture?
Essential Questions
What are values and how do they help define one’ s culture?
What is the connection between my partner’ s environment and my own?
Enduring Understandings
Art is a universal language that can convey cultural norms and values.
Expanding one’ s awareness of other cultures enhances appreciation of the lives of peers living in another country.
Elements of the environment are interconnected and depend on each other for survival.
Activity Description and Important Points Materials
1. Re- Examining Definitions of Culture and Values a. Discuss the aspects of culture and values identified from
Lesson 1. b. Review the students’ definitions of culture and values. c. Discuss how students’ definitions for culture and values compare with those found in the glossary.
Rainforest ArtLink Pre- Exchange Survey from Lesson 1
2. Creating List of Values and Activities that Illustrate those Values |
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Working in small groups, have students brainstorm a list of values using the Cultural Values in Everyday Life worksheet. These values can represent their personal, family, school or community values. Students compare their list to the Cultural Values of Recent Rainforest ArtLink Students handout. Based on their list of values, students should identify and write down everyday activities or special occasions where an observer might see these values being carried out. As an example, see the three activities listed for“ Love of Family.” |
Cultural Values in Every Day Life worksheet
Cultural Values of Recent Rainforest ArtLink Students handout
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Rainforest ArtLink Tool Box: Strategies for Deeper Understanding
• Use the Web of Life“ The Game” to ignite a discussion among students that will allow them to discover how all the elements in the environment depend on each other to survive and how humans relate to them( See Appendix).
• Each group shares the central ideas or information identified in the examples. Provide an accurate summary of their identified cultural norms and values based on information from the Rainforest ArtLink Cultural Values in Everyday Life worksheet. Include written and verbal sharing opportunities. For example, students could participate in a pair-share, a turn and talk share, write their comments in a journal or share out to the large group.
• Students work in small groups or individually depending on age / grade and ability level. Check the U. S. Grade Level Learning Standards for specific objectives for age / grade appropriate content.
• Use the Cultural Iceberg image to illustrate and facilitate a discussion about the“ visible” and“ invisible” aspects of culture( See Appendix).
• Ask students to respond in writing to the“ Questions to Think About” at the bottom of the worksheet.
US Learning Standards Addressed
Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11-12
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