Lesson plan for Grade 2:
1. A rationale for the proposed unit
This lesson plan is suitable for language learning class, or some East Asian Culture classes. Students should have basic ideas about where those East Asia countries are, and they should also have some second language learning experience. They will learn East Asian cultures through plenty of activities through this whole week learning.
2. Skill and content objectives
Content objectives: East Asian Culture Journey
Maryland Standard 5.0 History ：Students shall inquire about significant events, ideas, beliefs, and themes to identify patterns and trends and to analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time to make connections to the present in their communities, Maryland, the United States, and the world.
Maryland Standard 6.0 Skills and Processes：Students shall inquire about civics, geography, economics, history, and people and nations of the world using disciplinary literacy skills and processes to critically evaluate content through a variety of source materials across disciplines and use reading, writing, and other forms of communication to develop, defend, and critique arguments in order to take informed action.
https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Documents/DCAA/SocialStudies/Framework/Grade2.pdf
3. Detailed lesson plan
First lesson
lesson objectives：China (1.5 hour)
materials to be used：books, videos, color pens, print paper with animals
Detailed lesson plan
a. Introduction
Dynasties in China and typical traditional cloth styles (20 minutes)
b. Introduce twelve animals: Zodiac signs (15 minutes)
c. class and individual activities：
Introduce Dragon and Panda, color those two animals （15 minutes）
d. Reading: Read some folk stories （20minutes）
Nuwa mending the sky
Cowherd and Weaver Girl
Mulan joins the army
e. Questions to have discussion： (15minutes)
Which story do you like best? Why?
Why Mulan needed to join the army?
Why Cowherd and Weaver Girl only meet once a year?
In Nuwa story, why the sky was broken? How to mend it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpy5BMhMYYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIiAB1jplfk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVifBgyq0zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqT-UlYlg1s
https://www.worldhistory.org/china/
https://www.newhanfu.com/21745.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwWFF6DP-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UByojQoMzl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ig7yvM3GIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60c0e9GnF88
Second lesson:
lesson objectives：Japan (1 hour)
materials to be used：books, videos, color pens, print paper with animals
Detailed lesson plan
a. Introduction
Dynasties in Japan and typical traditional cloth styles (20 minutes)
b. Introduce
Typical animals in Japan: green pheasant and deer in Nara (10 minutes)
c. class and individual activities：
Color those animals (10 minutes)
d. Reading/watch films
folk stories: The Legend of Kaguya Hime/Taro Urashima/Momotaro (20 minutes)
e. Discussion-launching questions
What is your favorite Japanese folk story？ Why?
What can you learn from the legend of Kaguya Hime’s story?
Who is Taro? What’s his occupation?
What was happening between Taro and the turtle?
How did Momotaro born?
Can you name animals that went with Momotaro to the island?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIDLVWKiNqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHDMI0W2Dw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnFsFRnRsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTt4cwVVKSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj_vkfADZZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZV2cUcTNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_drXPqUefaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4lGpKpXCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDIrir-tkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWbGy76tHDA
Third lesson
lesson objectives： Korea (1.5 hour)
materials to be used：books, videos, color pens, print paper with animals
a. Introduction
Dynasties in Korean and typical traditional cloth styles (20 minutes)
b. Introduce
Typical animals in Korea: Tiger 10minutes
c. class and individual activities：
Color those animals 10 minutes
d. Reading/watch films
Some folk stories: The Myth of Dangun(Tangun)/The Fairy and the Woodcutter20 minutes
e. Discussion-launching questions：
What can you learn from the story of Dangun?
In the story of Fairy and the Woodcutter, Why the fairy and children disappear?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdsueMX-8yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVsHzYP5Qvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKDEhOFrAFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjoxYuAAIDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY2Gm2EdhsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdP-U4sEcD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uficJwaZygw
http://www.sejongsociety.org/korean_theme/korean_folk_tales/
Fourth lesson:
lesson objectives：Writings of Korea and Japan (2 hour)
materials to be used：books, videos, pencils, notebook
a. Introduction
Teach students pronunciation of some Japanese Hiragana, Katakana (20 minutes)
Teach students pronunciation of Korean pronunciation and writing system (20minutes)
b. class and individual activities：
Play a video about the original of those three countries’ writing systems (15 minutes)
c. Discussion-launching questions (15minutes)
Compare different writing systems of three different countries
Which writing system is the most difficult one? Why?
Which writing system is the easiest one? Why?
What are differences between English writing system and those three countires?
d. Try to use calligraphy to write them down. (30minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_qRXL-KX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN4mysljHYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sx5nc0aG68
https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/ipac2016/talks/thea01_talk.pdf
Fifth lesson
lesson objectives：Different religions in these three countries (2 hour)
materials to be used： videos, students need to dress up with suitable cloth for the activity, find a playground or empty the classroom
a. Introduction
Different religions in the East Asian countries(20 minutes)
b. Introduce detailed types of exercise
Introduce Kung Fu (10 minutes)
Introduce Meditation (10 minutes)
Introduce Taichi (10 minutes)
Karate (10 minutes)
Taekwondo (10 minutes)
c. class and individual activities：
Choose one or two from those activities to practice together (20 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-XUE0CyQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUhGRh4vdb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdgT6VCuu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTiOjUvoIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQqxdAbRS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzd2-I1_WtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7o3BfY6XZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEOS2zoyQw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbElL1rO_AY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuMKgdoY3r0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzV6J4WCwRM
4. A plan for assessing student achievement
Students can choose one of the activities from last two lessons and send me a video as the assessment