Who's
House?
Grade level: 3rd
Length: 50
minutes
Performance expectation: The
student will discuss how homes are made differently around the world and make a
small picture collage from finding pictures on the internet.
Materials: This
is my House by Arthur Dorros, butcher paper, a globe,
and enough computers in the classroom for at least 2 students to use the internet at the same time.
NETS Standards: 2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environment
to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support
individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
Students:
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or
others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
b. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by
engaging with learners of other cultures.
d. contribute to project
teams to produce original works or solve problems.
Procedures:
Introduction: 1) The
teacher will begin this lesson by asking a question such as: Could you imagine
living in a house made out of straw, branches, or snow? Then he/she will state
how we all live differently around the world. The teacher will provide some
more questions for the students to think about: Why do you think people from
all over the world make their houses differently? Then the teacher will state
that we all live in homes but they are made differently. 2) The student will
brainstorm about some materials people use to build a house. The teacher will
create a list of these on the butcher paper. The entire class will read the
ideas together. Before the teacher reads the book, he/she will ask the children
to listen to all the different ways houses are built. Also, have them listen
for all the different languages in the book.
Development: 1) The
teacher will read This is my House to the entire class. She/He will read
the sentence "This is my house" in all the different languages while the
students look at the illustration of what that house is made from in that particular
country. While he/she is reading the students can locate the country on the
globe. 2) Ask the students which kind of house they live in with their family.
Have them find pictures of a type of house different from the one they live in
on the internet. Have the students provide the
location and language they speak in this country as the book did. Also, have
them write a small paragraph explaining their new house. Display the booklets
and have the children talk about them and/or read their story about their
house.
Closure: 1)
Discuss the student's responses to their booklets of houses and their feelings
toward living in a different type of home than they have. Ask them if they
could be able to live in one of the homes in a different country. Discuss what makes
each house a home. Discuss that there are many types of houses and that they
can be a small room or a tall building. Discuss how each of these homes are
different because they are made from different materials but that each is their
home because of the people in it.
Assessment: Listen
to the students while they are brainstorming ideas to construct the list in the
introduction. This will indicate if they can predict what some houses are made
of. Read the booklets of their creative stories. Assess if they know where the
country is located on the globe. Assess how the students are navigating through
the internet while the kids are working together.
Adaptations/Considerations: Have the student write about other things that are different from country to country. Read another book or watch a movie about people's homes all around the world. Have the students draw a picture of what materials were used to make some of these homes.