Who-Am-I? : My friends and family Connecting to Your Curriculum Who-Am-I? home | Program overview Teacher module menu | Workshop Tim's family, Slovenia , 2003

Participation in "My Friends and Family" module will allow students to practice many skills and concepts in a variety of subject matter areas.

Language Arts/Writing

• Using the steps within the writing process
• Writing for different audiences and purposes: to inform, to express personal ideas, to persuade
• Writing in different forms including informative essays, play scripts and friendship poems
• Comparing and contrasting ideas from several sources
• Researching local folklore, fables, legends, tales and family traditions
• Conducting interviews
• Creating a Family Recipe Book and a Memory Book for a loved one who has died
• Example: National curriculum connections by grade levels for Norway (subject: Norwegian)
• Sample links to Jordan's curriculum guidelines for English

Math

• Analyzing and interpreting data using charts and graphs
• Classifying information into categories
• Using graphic organizers such as a Venn Diagram
• Calculating basic mathematical operations
• Example: National curriculum connections by grade levels
• Sample links to Jordan's math curriculum

Social Studies

• Learning about recreational activities and sports in other countries
• Examining current events
• Describing holidays, festivals and local customs
• Collecting regional recipes
• Using maps to locate countries
• Sample links to Jordan's curriculum guidelines for social studies

Science

• Sample links to Jordan's curriculum

Technology

• Practicing the use of a word processor
• Accessing and utilizing e-mail
• Locating a web site
• Participating in an IRC and/or KidSpace

Art and Drama

• Making a collage or bulletin board display
• Using paints, crayons, chalk, ink, water color
• Writing plays and skits (role playing)
• Making dioramas - three dimensional scenes in small (shoe) boxes

Public Speaking

• Justifying and defending their opinions
• Planning debates
• Expressing ideas in a real time situation using IRC and Kidspace
• Communicating results of research

Library Science

• Searching for information using printed and electronic media
• Evaluating reliability of information
• Gathering ideas from human sources - peers around the world

Health Education

• Dealing with interpersonal relationships, accepting students from different cultures
• Exploring multicultural recipes

Life Skills

1. Self-awareness; understanding own needs & desires; increasing self-esteem and self-responsibility.

2. Make informed choices (decision making skills; goal setting.)

3. Critical thinking

4. Dialogue to understand

5. Negotiations (Learn to convince)

6. Empathy (developing positive social skills.)

7. Reflection (thinking back on beliefs or motives)

8. Praxis (a cycle for taking action: making informed choices, taking action based on choices, reflective thinking about the effectiveness of choices).

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