Day 1

Day 1: Building Background Knowledge/ Exploring the theme of “Responsibility to Community”

Estimated time: 45 min. 

Goal: Students will be able to build on their background knowledge about the theme “Responsibility to Community” and summarize their learning by watching a video, recording ideas about the different perspectives of local artists in the video, and brainstorm ideas relating to the theme. 

• Introduce unit through Circle of Viewpoints visual thinking exercise. The goal of the exercise is to help students explore multiple perspectives. It helps them understand that different people can have different kinds of connections to the same thing. In this case, students will look at the theme of “Responsibility to Community” through the eyes of three artists from the video. 

• View SILKAT Grade 5 video.  (Students complete Circle of Viewpoints as the video plays. Teacher may need to pause video to students to model how to fill in ideas in the graphic organizer, and to allow students to write ideas down). 

• As a class, discuss the video through the Circle of Viewpoints exercise.  Ask: In what ways did these artists have different ideas about showing responsibility to their community? In what ways were their ideas similar? 

• In small groups, brainstorm 1) a list of different ways that the community works together, 2) a list of special aspects of the community- tying to subsistence, cultural values, family values, traditions, celebrations etc… 

• Groups share their ideas in a whole class discussion. Record on butcher paper to save for Day 3. 

Materials 

See Materials section, Day 1 

Vocabulary

perspective

viewpoint