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=__**Wayquita Ricks-**__= 1. Sesame Street Kids: Talk about Holidays - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjC13dFRS8 2. Holidays for Children: Christmas (DVD) **__T__** 3. Saint Patrick’s Halfpenny **__T__**

- These artifacts could be used to introduce or teach the necessary concepts to students by introducing it to the proper time. For example, I will introduce the YouTube video at the beginning of the lesson so it could give the students a broad idea about what we will be discussing for the rest of the week. Once I introduce the video, I will have some short, open-ended follow up questions to get their feedback. The Christmas DVD will be introduced once we discuss the spring holidays. When re reach the month of December, I will show the students the video of how Christmas is celebrated. Once the DVD is over, we will discuss the movie and I will do a follow-up activity that relates to the movie. The golden coins will be introduced when we talk about Saint Patrick’s Day. I will ask the students have they ever seen these before and do they know what they are. Depending on the amount of feedback I receive from the students, I will know how in depth I will go in about the artifake.
 * 1) How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach necessary concepts to students?

- The resources complied here could be used in my unit plan to entice, motivate and educated the students by using the visuals presented. For example, I honestly think the YouTube video is an awesome way to introduce this theme to a class of kindergartens for the simple fact the characters are around the same age as the students. I believe this will motivate the students to want to get involved with what we will be engaging in for the remaining of the week. In addition, students learn best when they are actually looking at visuals and by touching items that are related to the topic they are learning about.
 * 1) How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? //Note one example using a book or website.//

=**__Sasha Hart-__ **= List your artifacts/artifakes: //(Label tangible artifacts with a __T__//.)

1. Holidays for Children: St. Patrick’s Day (T) 2. American Flag (T) 3. Video Clip: Holiday ESL Teaching Tip: add culture to your holiday themed lessons


 * 1) How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach necessary concepts to students?
 * 2) These artifacts can be used in many useful ways in order to help the students understand about the different holidays around the world. The Holidays for Children DVD introduces students to St. Patrick’s Day and the festivities that take place. The American Flag can be used as a representation of Independence Day. Students can learn the history of the flag specifically about the stars and stripes and what they represent for our country. The video clip shares a very creative way to incorporate different cultures all around and the traditions of different cultures during the Holiday season.

= = =__Matthew Young-__= 1. Stuffed Dragon (T) 2. Bisquick (T) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3. Candle (T)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? //Note one example using a book or website.//
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The resources compiled can be used in my unit plan to entice, motivate and educate my students by them being excited to share what they already know. In one of the resources I have, a teacher shares a creative way for the students to be involved in the learning process. In the activity, the students share on a piece of paper a tradition that takes place during Christmas of a culture that is familiar to them. They put those papers in a box and they choose a tradition that is not familiar to them so that they can learn about it and be able to share what they have learned. I think that this is one of the activities that the students will be excited about because they have an input of what traditions are being shared.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">List your artifacts/artifakes: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dragons are the most important symbol of good fortune in Chinese culture and many festivals including the Dragon Boat Festival and the Chinese celebration of the New Year feature them prominently. This stuffed animal, made in the style of Chinese dragons, could be used to introduce these legendary animals and their significance to the class or as decoration when doing a mock celebration of a Chinese holiday. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Shrove Tuesday, or the last day before lent, is often called Pancake Day because many people across the world observing lent eat pancakes on this day. During lent many foods are given up including sugar and dairy products, so for one last indulgence before the fast begins, pancakes are eaten on Shrove Tuesday. Cooking pancakes for your students could be a great way to introduce students to Lent or Ash Wednesday and the concept of fasting. The teacher could bring in a hot plate and supervise students as they pour the Bisquick to make their own pancakes. This would be a fun activity that could teach students about cooking, holidays and pancakes. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Hindu festival of Diwali is also known as the “Festival of Lights” because one of the traditions of the holiday is the lighting of many small lamps or candles. The fire of these candles represents the triumph of good over evil or light over dark. Little candles like this one could be placed around the classroom while studying Diwali or students could bring in their own candles to put on their desks. This would be a way to engage students and to illustrate to them the traditions of Diwali in a very tangible way.
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach necessary concepts to students? **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The symbol of the dragon is very important to not only Chinese holidays but Chinese culture. Providing students with a stuffed dragon instead of just showing them a picture of one is better for tactile learners and will give students a more clear understanding of what a dragon really is. This toy could be a valuable tool in enticing and educating students about Chinese holidays or decorating a tri-board on the subject if we choose to include one in our unit plan. Lent is a holiday that affects many different people in countries all around the world. By teaching students about fasting and the celebration of Lent using a hands-on activity with food you would be activating their interest, giving them a tangible and edible symbol of a holiday and filling their bellies. I don’t know if we will be able to include this activity in our unit plan, but if we discuss Pancake Day we could use the box for educational purposes. If we include Diwali as one of our featured holidays this candle could be used to decorate a tri-board display or as an instructional tool to show what type of candles are used in these celebrations. In a classroom setting these candles could be lit to illustrate the Hindu tradition associated with the festival and to decorate the classroom in the style of a culture different from our own. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">All the books I collected could be used to gather information about holidays and give students reading material on the subject, but more specifically poems from __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Let’s Celebrate!: Festival Poems from Around the World __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> could be used during our unit plan presentation. The Kids Turn Central website will provide the group with a database to search for more holidays and A Global World.com could be used to gather more information after we have chosen what holidays to include in our plan. Many of the activities, songs and crafts from Hummingbird Educational Resouces.com could be used in our unit plan as fun and creative ways to teach our students about holidays. We could sing songs from holidays around the world or have students make a holiday craft like a drediel if we were to actually implement the unit plan down the road.
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? **

__**Rachel Sheppard-**__ <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 19px;">List your artifacts/artifakes: //<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">(Label tangible artifacts with a __T__ //<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">.) <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 24px;">1.Chocolate Egg from ItalyT <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 24px;">2.Flowers from EnglandT <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 24px;">3. Cloth from Nigeria T

<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 120%;">The artifacts can be used to pique children’s curiosity. It can be used as a tangible example of content. This would be great for EL students because it gives visual as well as audio example of the content.
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 120%;">How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach necessary concepts to students? **

<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. **<span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 120%;"> How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? //Note one example using a book or website.// ** <span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 120%;">The book on Nigeria can be used to entice students on the arts. Nigeria is big on festivals and dance. The book includes pictures of the common dress. The cloth above can provide an example of that. Teachers and students can also learn a dance from Nigeria. The book includes a map that can be used to teach map skills. <span style="font-family: 'baskerville old face','serif'; font-size: 120%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">