Classroom Activities
The classroom activities implemented are teacher-made visual charts of the topic, pictorial and narrative input charts about a story about COVID-19, and information about the virus. Students use the charts to write a Text & You paragraph about the information and how the information connects to their personal life.
The Cognitive Content Dictionary are collection of words students review throughout the unit taught and is used for other activities like the sentence patterning chart, their learning log, added to pictorials, in the inquiry and exploration chart, and begin to form a booklet of words.
Process grid, students create their own grids to from topics they have learned. They can extend the grid using the writing process for narrative or expository text.
YouTube videos are additional information in providing visuals and explanation about the topic students need to know. While viewing the video students conduct note taking skills assist their understanding and learning about the videos.
The cultural connection is having students create a big book about living healthily and a poster about preventing COVID-19 and the Influenza. The poster will be unique because students will use the Navajo language with visuals while embedding the Circle of Life and 102 years. In the Navajo language, COVID-19 is Dikos Ntsaaigii-Nahast’eits’aadah meaning Big Cough 19. Students explain what COVID-19, and the influenza virus are, its effect on our people, and how they can learn how to use preventive medicine to her their families and clan.
Teaching students’ preventive techniques will help them live longer, healthier lives and help prepare them for the future. They will be aware of upcoming sicknesses and know how to educate themselves to combat other mass sicknesses. For example, the flu virus still infects the population, but they know how to use preventive practices.
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