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. .  .  .  .  . __Assessment Option #1__: Complete the handout  | Access as a Google Drawing | Get an editable version at the Google Template Gallery __Assessment Option #2__: Create a class audiobook "New Year Celebrations from Around the World!" (learn how) | | Access as a Google Drawing | Get an editable version at the Google Template Gallery .
 * **Unit Title** || **New Years Celebrations Around the World** ||
 * **Framework Alignment** || Social Sciences 3.0; Grade One; Quarter 3 ||
 * **Enduring Understanding** || Our family traditions and celebrations can be traced to the places of our ancestors. ||
 * **Essential Questions** || How are diverse identities and cultures alike and different? ||
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** Celebrating the New Year Around the World: Customs & Traditions
 * **Essential Questions** || How are diverse identities and cultures alike and different? ||
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** Celebrating the New Year Around the World: Customs & Traditions
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** Celebrating the New Year Around the World: Customs & Traditions
 * **Day One Activities** || **Concept:** Celebrating the New Year Around the World: Customs & Traditions
 * CCSS:** RI1.1, .3, .9; W1.2, .6, .8; S1.2; L1a-j, .2a-e, .6
 * Information Literacy Skills:** Use of online database; use of informational website; use of map/globe
 * Technology Skills:** Creating an audio file
 * Activity:**
 * 1) Ask students to recall how they celebrate the New Year with their families. Ask them to share how they think many people celebrate in the United States. Read together the Kid's InfoBits article "New Year's Day".  On a board or display area, compose a list of facts related to New Year's celebrations in the United States. Mention that people all over the world celebrate the New Year in different ways and at various times according to their unique customs and traditions.
 * 2) In advance, load the "Curriculum Connections: Website Evaluation (Primary)" form from the CPS Template Gallery to your Drive. (sample) Locate the new form in your Drive. Go to Form > Go to live form to bring up the evaluation rubric in a separate window or tab. (learn how)
 * 3) Using a computer and projector, look at selected pictures of New Year's celebrations from around the world, at AOL Kids. Use the website evaluation form together to assess this website. As a class, read some of the captions and locate these countries on a map or globe. Then, on the board or display area, create class notes of some basic facts about various New Year's celebrations.
 * 4) Complete the graphic organizer [[file:cpslibraries/It's a New Year.pdf|"It's a New Year!" ]]to share facts learned about New Year's celebrations from around the world. Alternately, have students work together to create a short "New Year Celebrations from Around the World!" audiobook. (learn how to record student voices | learn how to record and edit audio in Audacity)
 * 5) Book Checkout/Recreational Reading
 * Personalized Learning:** The use of audio to provide multiple learning pathways; incorporate auditory responses as alternate assessment.
 * Assessment:**
 * Resources:**

Curriculum Connections: Website Evaluation (Primary) located in the CPS Google Template Gallery. (sample) (learn how to access) . "New Year's Day." Kids InfoBits Presents: Holidays of the World. Thomson Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2013. []

"New Year's Eve Around the World Pics." New Year's Eve Around the World Pics. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2013. h@ttp://kids.aol.com/pictures/new-years-eve-around-the-world-pics. . .  ..
 * Additional Resources**:
 * Teachingbooks.net:** New Years support materials
 * CPS Virtual Library:** New Year list (view in Internet Explorer or Firefox)

. .  .  .  .  . __Assessment Option #1__: Chinese New Year frame portrait to record Chinese New Year facts. __Assessment Option #2__: Google doc to create list of Chinese New Year facts. (learn how) .
 * SAFARI Montage Playlist:** New Year Celebrations Around the World (within the CPS network) ||
 * **Day Two Activities** || **Concept:** How do the Chinese celebrate the New Year?
 * **Day Two Activities** || **Concept:** How do the Chinese celebrate the New Year?
 * CCSS:** W2, W7; SL2; L1a-j, L2a-e, L6
 * Information Literacy Skills:** Use of instructional videos
 * Technology Skills:** Use of a Google Doc, if selected (learn how)
 * Activity**:
 * 1) Access the video "Chinese New Year" (Schlessinger) in Safari Montage (safari.cps.k12.il.us). Show videoclips 1 - 3.
 * 2) As a class, write notes about Chinese New Year on the board or other display. Create a list of vocabulary words.
 * 3) Use the Chinese New Year frame portrait lined or landscape lined handout to list three facts or a paragraph about Chinese New Year. Use complete sentences. Refer to the list of vocabulary words and notes to help create the fact list. If time permits, color the holiday symbols in the frame. Alternately, create the list on plain paper or in a Google Doc. ([|learn how])
 * 4) If there is sufficient time, view the book "Sam and the Lucky Money" (11:14) in Safari Montage.
 * 5) Book Checkout/Recreational Reading
 * __Personalized__** __Learning:__ The use of audio and video to provide multiple learning pathways; incorporate auditory responses as alternate assessment.
 * Assessment**:
 * Resources:**

Chinese New Year (Schlessinger) video in Safari Montage

"Chinese New Year Colouring Frames." Chinese New Year Colouring Frames. Activity Village, n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2013. http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese_new_year_colouring_frames.htm. . .  ..
 * __Additional Resources__:**
 * Teachingbooks.net:** New Years support materials
 * CPS Virtual Library:** New Year list (view in Internet Explorer or Firefox)
 * SAFARI Montage Playlist:** New Year Celebrations Around the World (within the CPS network)

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