Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Resources Needed:
one. Students will have the chance to role-play as
countries. This will allow them to evaluate different
- Paper
cultures and what they lack and will also allow them
- Pencils
to find collective solutions.
- Pictures/information of designated countries.
Goals: Allowing students to experience the bigger world In this fair, the students will be able to proudly put
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in their own smaller and familiar context. This will enable
them to evaluate their contributions in the larger context. their heritage or that of their family on display.
Resources Needed:
Students will benefit from this by seeing the amount
of diversity and where their peers/their families come
- Unique cultural items
from. This will also allow all students to evaluate their
- Arts/Crafts supplies
place in the global context.
- Textbooks/computers for research
Procedure:
country and its place in the world today. ***The more
Step 1: Each student will be given a template to follow in visuals, the better
order to build a small top-section of a booth. Once they
Step 4: The teacher must mediate these presentations and
have constructed this, they may colour it in any fashion that
ask any relevant questions or add any valuable information.
represents their culture.
Step 5: The students will then tour all the booths, view the
Step 2: The teacher will ask the students to do research on
differences and information, along with the item brought
their country and find some unique facts about their
from home.
culture. This research must include information from family
members along with standard methods. They must also Step 6: Students will then pick one other country to write a
bring one unique cultural item. ***If there is more than one report about, outlining what they found interesting and
student per country, they may work together. what they liked.
Step 3: The students will then find a way to present this The fair and presentations are a great way to present
(whether its a power-point, a video or simply a speech). diversity in a context that is fun and informative at the
This will include be at their respective booths and will start same time. If the teacher encourages the students to
with a small intro to their family tree. The students will then embrace their culture (e.g. present unique items, dress in
proceed to give a short insight into the history of their certain clothing!), then other students will also be likely to
embrace it and learn about it.
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