https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5 Made with a curious mind en-us 2017-07-22 19:15:25 UTC 2023-01-24 03:26:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png jdb2211 https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231628 This multicultural collection is for 4th-grade students in a dual language Spanish school 

]]> 2017-07-22 19:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231628 jdb2211 https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231870 One of the first activities I would like to do with the students is to have them find out what their names mean, why they got their name.  I want them to start off the year thinking about how different they are yet they are unique and embrace that.  This would require them to ask their parents the history of their names. ]]> 2017-07-22 19:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231870 jdb2211 https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231876 the After they have found out what their names mean I would like them to find out where their families are from. They would all have to share this information with the class and locate on a map. Ideally, their name and map activity would go together. I believe that both of these activities go hand in hand and would touch on knowledge construction, as it would help students understand different cultural assumptions and biases made by social constructs (Banks, 2013 p. 20). In having them do this activity I would hope that they would realize that their families are from different parts of the world. That because we are from different parts of the world we tend to have an idea that people from those areas are different or that we have a stereotype of those people because society and our surroundings have said that they are. I would really want the students to think deeply on how their surroundings have skewed their ideas on people that are different from them. This would be an activity done at the beginning to have them start thinking critically about the world around them. ]]> 2017-07-22 19:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231876 jdb2211 https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231884 After having them think about immigration and how immigrants are labeled I would like to talk about refugees.  I would like to read them a book called Stepping Stones, by Margriet Ruurs. This book is about a family's experience fleeing Syria. The book would allow students to understand why some people have to leave their home when they do not want to. And for multicultural education it covers prejudice reduction, by "developing a positive attitude towards different racial, think and cultural groups" (Banks, 2013 p. 21).  In present day climate the news and media have presented Syrians and refugees in a very negative way, I feel this book would give an insiders perspective and a introduction of what Syrian culture is and why they have to leave their homes. I would hope that students would learn that sometimes people do not want to leave their homes for a better life but are forced to. And that the ideas the media and society have of people form different cultures is very constructed and that as US Americans they have to work on not being prejudice towards others. ]]> 2017-07-22 19:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231884 jdb2211 https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231977 During the year I would like to have students think critically on how perceptions of their culture have been constructed.  In fourth grade students learn about New York history and one of the big themes is immigration.  This video I have chosen is a video on how Latinos are classified as Latino, Hispanic, or other.  This video would touch on content integration, as it ties in ethnic and cultural content into the subject area of immigration (Banks, 2013 p. 20). I would believe this video would work as I would have them think critically of how immigrants from the 1800's until now, have come to the United States and have been labeled. I would use this to make them think of themselves first and how they identify, and then how they would feel if someone would label them differently, tying all back to immigration and how immigrants were and are labeled. ]]> 2017-07-22 19:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdb2211/jcpzzyt1rsz5/wish/179231977