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Artifacts Lesson Plan Part 1

Name: Crystal Wong Topic: Artifacts Grade: 1st

1. a) New Mexico Social Studies Standard II: Students understand how physical, natural, and

cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how

societies interact with one another and their environments.b)K-4 Benchmark 2-C: Be familiar with aspects of human behavior and man-made and natural

environments in order to recognize their impact on the past and present.

c) Performance Standard SS K.2.4: Identify family customs and traditions and explain theirimportance.

2. Objectives: Students will be able to describe artifacts and explain their importance in relation toculture and history.

3. Lesson Summary: Students will develop a basic understanding of artifacts through teacher led

discussion. Students will be able to relate artifacts to culture and history through listening to my telling ofThe Jade Stone by Caryn Yacowitz.

4. Resources:

The Jade Stone by Caryn Yacowitz

My personal artifact- jade earrings

My completed artifact flyer

Student artifact kits (ziploc bags with letter to the parents and artifact flyers)

Photos of artifacts slideshow (ppt file)

Camera

5. Procedures:

a. Readiness: In order to ensure that the students understand the content we will engage in discussions prior,

during and after the lesson.

b. Focus of Lesson (Explore, Explain, Extend)

I will begin by asking students what kinds of things are found in museums. I will enlistanswers until a students answers with artifacts. We will then discuss what artifacts are and

how they are found. I will then show them images of different artifacts and explain how each

artifact has a story to tell, the importance of that, and the story behind each artifact. The lastimage will be a jade carving of fish and we will talk about what it is. This will lead into the

telling of The Jade Stone. I will show them my artifact and flyer as examples of what they

will be doing for their extension assignment. I will relate how my artifact is a representation

of my culture. Then I will explain how we each own artifacts in our own homes and explaintheir extension assignment to them.

c. Closure

To wrap up the lesson I will ask questions at the end to ensure that the students met the

objective as well as to bring them out from the details of the story and back out the the main

point of the lesson. Furthermore, because of their extension assignment they will be able toapply what they have learned.

d. Assessment (Evaluate how students met objectives)

Assessment will be informal questions asked throughout the lesson. These will include but are

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not limited to:

Questions asked by me at the beginning to the entire class:

What do you find in museums?

What are artifacts?

What are some examples of artifacts?

Questions asked by me during the middle to the entire class:

Who has ever heard a folktale? What is a folktale?

Did you like The Jade Stone? Why or why not?

How long ago do you think this story took place?

What is a good lesson you can learn from the story?

Is it a good idea to always listen to other people?

Why or why not?

What do you think the Emperor was going to do to Chan Lo for disobeying him?

Were you surprised by the ending? Why or why not?

Can the carving be considered an artifact? Why?

Questions asked by me at the end to the entire class: What are artifacts?

Why can artifacts be important?

Can anyone think of an artifact from home they may want to bring to share next time?

Does anyone have any other questions about their homework?

6. Enrichment: After the lesson students will go home with their artifact kits. They will choose an

artifact from their own home that they feel is important to them. Then they will complete their artifacts

flyer which asks them to draw the artifact and write about it.