Discovering Your Heritage
Discovering Your Heritage
Discovering Your Heritage
Chris Gniadek
Amy Rupp
Lesson Overview/Summary
Students will be asked to interview
their families about their cultural
heritage, create a family tree, and
map their journeys to America
Grade Level
This particular lesson plan will be
used in the fourth grade
Essential Questions
What does your culture mean to you
and how does that make you into the
person you are today?
Compare and contrast cultural
traditions among the classroom?
Lesson Objectives/Goals
Visual Art: The students will be able to use a
map to show the path of immigration of their
families from their homeland to America.
Literacy: The students will be able to write at
least five interview questions that help them
gain information about their family heritage.
Social Studies/Relationships: The students will
be able to compare and contrast cultural
traditions among their classmates.
Opening
I will show my students where my
family is from using the map that
shows their journey to America. I will
also share information on my family
using my family tree and just talking
about my families history.
Summative Assessment
I will use a rubric to grade each
childs presentation and to see if
they did everything correctly.
The children will have this rubric
with them at the beginning of the
lesson.
Another assessment is that they will
present what they found about how
their family came to America and
why.