CCSS Standard:
Speaking and Listening 6.2 - Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
Integrating Global Education
Integrating Global Education for this standard has many options. Teachers can bring in videos, either professionally made or amateur, from around the world covering the topic or issue at hand. Websites, blogs, newspaper articles, magazines, and TV shows from all over the globe are available to provide other perspectives or add to the discussion. In addition, speakers can come to the classroom to share their experiences. These speakers can be representatives from specific cultures, travelers to specific topical regions, or victims / participants in particular issues.
Specific Lesson Modification Examples
Global Competency: Investigate the world beyond their immediate environment - In sixth grade, one of the first texts students experience in Reading class is "Saving the Rainforest." As part of this unit, teachers can invite returned Peace Corps volunteers from Amazonian areas to speak with the class about their experiences. Videos about the rainforest can be shown.
Global Competency: Recognize Perspectives, others' and their own - Students can look at newspapers from the region to explore how Deforestation is presented in local-to-the-rainforest news compared with how it is presented in American newspapers.
Informal Outcome Assessment Example
Students will develop a set of questions as a class about the Rainforest and Deforestation. Different groups of students will then each investigate a different source of information for answers; e.g., videos on YouTube or NationalGeographic.com, international newspapers, interview an expert. Students will then be re-grouped with a representative from each of the prior groups to compare responses. The new groups will then examine how each source's information contributes to the discussion and report back to the class.
Integrating Global Education for this standard has many options. Teachers can bring in videos, either professionally made or amateur, from around the world covering the topic or issue at hand. Websites, blogs, newspaper articles, magazines, and TV shows from all over the globe are available to provide other perspectives or add to the discussion. In addition, speakers can come to the classroom to share their experiences. These speakers can be representatives from specific cultures, travelers to specific topical regions, or victims / participants in particular issues.
Specific Lesson Modification Examples
Global Competency: Investigate the world beyond their immediate environment - In sixth grade, one of the first texts students experience in Reading class is "Saving the Rainforest." As part of this unit, teachers can invite returned Peace Corps volunteers from Amazonian areas to speak with the class about their experiences. Videos about the rainforest can be shown.
Global Competency: Recognize Perspectives, others' and their own - Students can look at newspapers from the region to explore how Deforestation is presented in local-to-the-rainforest news compared with how it is presented in American newspapers.
Informal Outcome Assessment Example
Students will develop a set of questions as a class about the Rainforest and Deforestation. Different groups of students will then each investigate a different source of information for answers; e.g., videos on YouTube or NationalGeographic.com, international newspapers, interview an expert. Students will then be re-grouped with a representative from each of the prior groups to compare responses. The new groups will then examine how each source's information contributes to the discussion and report back to the class.