Multidimensional Unit - Grade 8 Advanced Level
Topic to be developed: Farmers Market
Field of Experience: Community
Experiential Goal: To create a website
8 Steps to develop:
(1) Watch a video of Brad Pitt being interviewed as to how he got where he is today and will be given opportunity to ask questions about this video
(2) Students will be provided with a list of words to work with and look up for definitions on the internet
(3) Students will practice interviewing each other
(4) Students will go to the market to see what is offered and during the same trip will go around a second time and buy a service or a product.
(5) A guest lecturer (who is a vendor at Farmers Market) will come in to speak to the students (undecided at the moment as to who lecturer will be, need to get permission first)
(6) Students will write a reflective learning log on what they learned from the guest lecturer
(7) Students will interview a vendor from Farmers Market (Undecided as to who, at moment, need permission first)
(8) The students will create a website with the information that they have gathered and the teacher will act as a facilitator.
Objectives
Communicative/Experiential:
1.View a video on someone being interview
2. Practice interviewing techniques with each other
3. Prepare interview questions ahead of time
4. Ask students to explain why they chose one kiosk over another
5. Listen to a guest speaker and ask questions
6. Making the website
Language:
1. Establish a list of key words that will be helpful to interviewing a vendor, the equipment they use, and what they make, such as: clientele,
products, services, history, cost, items, travel, henna tattooing,
woodworking, gardener, meat cutters, juicers, barbecue, bakery, baker, seamstress, tailor, sewing machine, etc..
2. Examine how to ask questions
3. Develop polite phrases such as please and thank- you
Cultural:
1. Compare the differences between different services and products
2. Explain the origins of where the product or service came from and how we got it in Canada; (ex. After the Olympics in Spain, some of their popular dishes were adopted here.)
3. Conduct searches and explore different websites from Australia, Texas, and British Columbia
General Language:
1. Use the Internet to look up words in the dictionary and thesaurus
2. Write about their experience in their reflective learning log
3. Practice interviewing techniques with each other
4. Prepare interview questions ahead of time
Evaluation:
1. Ability to orally present a summary of their interviews
2. Production of website
3. Critique the website constructively, offering alternative options
4. Level of participation
Resources:
1. Making It Happen - Richard Amato
2. Interview with Brad Pitt
3. http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
(Students can look up a word in their mother tongue that they do not know and get the English translation or vice versa)
4. http://www.webster.com
(This website is a place where if a student does not know the meaning of a word, they can get a definition in English, They can also use the Thesaurus here to find a different word to use for variation)
5. Farmers Market Board Of Directors (for permission to do this school project)
6. Farmers Market Vendors(for permission and also as interview resources)
Lesson 1
Steps 1-3
Title: Entertainment Today
Unit: Farmers Market
Pre-Activity:
1. Turn off lights to get the students attention. The teacher introduces the fact that they are starting a new unit on Farmers Market. The teacher then asks to see who has been to Farmers Market to see if they know what the teacher is talking about. The teacher does graffiti brainstorming with the students to see what comes to mind when they think of Farmers Market and what this means to them. Teacher puts the posters on the board and gets a representative from each group to explain their poster.
2. Teacher explains what the experiential goal is for the new unit. The teacher gives the students a list of the vendors at Farmers Market and have them think about which two vendors they would like to interview and why.
Activities:
- Before the students begin this activity, the teacher will explain what she wants the students to pay particular attention to the types of questions being asked in the interview so the students will know ahead of time what they should be looking for in advance.
1. Students will watch the video interview with Brad Pitt and will be given the opportunity to ask questions about the video they watched.
Post-Activity:
1. Bring the students together for a class discussion on how they made out with their interviews, discuss any problems they might have encountered and try to help them find solutions.
2. Students will break up into groups of two and begin to practice interview with each other.
Lesson 2
Step 4
Title: Field Trip - To Market To Market to Buy A Fat Pig
Unit: Farmers Market (cont.)
Introduction:
We are going on a field trip to Farmers Market ahead of time so students can see what this experience is all about. They have been asked to bring 7$ for the trip. We go early in the morning so that the students can speak, and hear better. The acoustics in the market make it difficult when there is a lot of traffic to hear people.
Pre-Activity:
1. The students will break up into groups of three to tour the market and the rules are (1) Always stay together and follow your buddy system (2) If you get split up by some reason, go to Kurts Sausage Stand and stay
there. If you are missing I will come to find you. (3) Always remember your manners. (4) Be considerate of your buddies wishes to see certain stands that you might not be interested in. These rules will be re-iterated before students enter the building.
Activity:
1. Students are to go around the market once and see all the products and services that are offered. The second time around, they go shopping and pick out what they want to buy with their money and buy the service or the product.
Post-Activity:
1. (Show and Tell) Students will briefly show the service or product that they bought, and tell us how much each item or service cost, and why they chose the service or item that they picked.
Lesson 3
Title: Juicy Oranges
Unit: Farmers Market (cont.)
Steps 5-6
Pre-Activity:
1. Students must come up with questions they would like to use on the guest speaker
Activity:
1. A guest lecturer will come in that works at one of the freshly squeezed juice kiosks to give a demonstration on how juice is made.
2. The students will have the option to sample the juice that has been made.
3. The students will ask their questions ( they have prepared before the guest speaker arrived. The teacher starts class at 9:30 and has the guest lecturer come in at 9:45)
Post-Activity:
1. Students will write a reflective learning log about what they learned from their experience.