Description: This is a sixth grade four week unit
plan for social studies on folktales. It contains four different
regions, the Mediteranian, the British Isles, Western Europe, and Scandinavia,
each covered in a different week. The students are placed into cooperative
learning groups so that during disscussions they have a wide variety of
opinions to ponder over. Within these cooperative learning groups,
the students are encouraged to locate and analyze information having to
do with the region being covered that week (12.1)
They are also taught to take each others ideas, put them together into
an understandable answer, and draw conclusions from it. With
this project of folktales, I will have them put together a paper of what
information they find on the internet about folktales (12.7).
The usage of technolgy during this project address differences in a child's
learning and performance by how well they work with others and how well
they perform their project, all things considered (13.1).
After explaining what is to be done, I will show them how to cite an internet
site, or web page (14.1).