Rationale

            This unit plan is intended to provide authentic and engaging learning experiences to all the students in the classroom. It is a learner centered plan that will motivate the students to create their own learning and feel ownership over the work they do within the unit. This unit compensates for a variety of learning styles by incorporating different types of activities and assessment such as writing, discussion, presentation, creativity, technology, communication, participation, reflection, and self monitoring. It also incorporates different ways of presenting information such as guest speakers, videos, informational text, the internet, student presentations, and teacher directed lessons.

    This unit has a focus on learning by doing. In order for the students to internalize good citizenship skills, they must actively participate in the learning of others. In this unit, the students are not only learning about China and its people and basic needs, but they are also engaging in activities that foster respect, responsibility, empathy, integration of ideas, and cooperation with other students. They are also learning a great deal about the Canadian people because a vast majority of the people here are Chinese and this helps promote acceptance and respect within their own communities.

Student Learning Objectives

The students will demonstrate an understanding that the nations in the world are becoming increasingly interdependent.

Generalizations:

a)      The Pacific Rim is becoming increasingly important.

b)    Changes in the way China meets basic needs have been accelerated by communications and technology. 

c)     Sharing among countries can influence our lifestyles.

Locating/Organizing/Interpreting information:

·       The students will acquire information by reading, listening, and viewing.

·       The students will identify the point of view in oral, written, or viewed presentation.

·       The students will select pertinent information from a variety of sources.

·  The students will compare information on a topic drawn from two or more sources; to recognize agreement or disagreement.

·     The students will use computer programs: to write a paragraph/report; to simulate situations impractical to reproduce in the classroom.

Geography/mapping:

·        The students will use an atlas to locate places in Canada and China.

·      The students will use the latitude-longitude grid system, to locate China on a simple world map and globe.

·        The students will read and interpret maps/legends showing physical features and regions.

·        The students will estimate, then compute distances between places studies.

·        The students will compare distances in kilometers to places under study.

·        The students will infer relationships from data shown on maps.

·        The students will study color counter and visual relief maps visualizing the nature of areas shown.

·        The students will use two or more maps to gather information about the same area.

·        The students will make a regional map to show a variety of features.

Analyzing/Synthesizing/Evaluating:

·        The students will compare and contrasts the way people in Canada and China meet their needs.

·        The students will analyze how traditions and customs in China influence the way the people meet their basic needs, by identifying and describing the values held.

·      The students will analyze the effect of communication and technology on the way the Chinese meet their basic needs.

Communication:

·        The students will take notes in point form collected from various sources.

·        The students will write a biography on how a young person in China lives

·        The students will express an opinion, either orally or in writing, using specific examples, about aspects of the Chinese society that might be beneficial for Canadians to adopt or vice versa.

·      The students will collect and organize information on a clearly defined topic, using a simple outline, webbing, etc.

·     The students will in a final written product, apply the skills of revising and editing by considering content, organization, vocabulary, sentence structure, and mechanics of writing.

Participation:

·      The students will contribute to the various functions of group work as recorder, spokesperson, and leader.

·     The students will observe the courtesies of group discussions such as speaking in turn and using appropriate tone.

·        The students will distinguish between work that can be done most effectively by individuals and that which calls for group effort.

Attitude:

·        The students will be encouraged to develop respect and appreciation for the ways in which people in China satisfy basic needs.

·        The students will be encouraged to develop objectivity by examining one’s own ideas about what is a better way of meeting basic needs.

·        The students will be encouraged to develop empathy for the problems faced in meeting ones needs.

·       The students will be encouraged to develop respect for someone else’s opinions or viewpoint

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