This lesson is for : Kindergarten:
Summary
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to celebrate other winter holidays besides Christmas? Kindergarten students will investigate and research an unfamiliar winter holiday celebrated by members of their community. The students will create a digital holiday greeting and engineer a physical representation of the holiday they celebrate to mail to a member of the community that celebrates their choice holiday.
TIPC Ratings
Research & Information Fluency
Rating: Approaching – Explanation: Students generated questions about an unfamiliar holiday to help guide their research. Using PebbleGo, students assembled and synthesized information that would help them form new understandings and appreciations for diversity in the community.
Communication & Collaboration
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students worked in self-selected partners to design a physical representation of their holiday to give as a gift and digital holiday greeting highlighting a new holiday for a member in their community. From start to finish, students engaged in meaningful communication and purposeful collaboration.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students engineered a snowflake within the specific parameters set by the rubric the GT teacher introduced. Furthermore, students digitally created a special holiday message highlighting their new knowledge of their winter pal’s holiday.
Creativity & Innovation
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students synthesized existing and self-generated knowledge to create new ideas and products through the snowflake engineering challenge and the digital creation piece.
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