FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE LESSON PLAN Some background: myself and another teacher team together to visit the home

of one of our students and had seen the child exchanging Mexican candy with his neighbor, I came up with a creative lesson plan to incorporate the childs background in Mexico with a classroom activity. In order to do this I interviewed a parent from Mexico to learn all about the different kinds of candy that were made in Mexico. FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE LESSON PLAN ED Teacher: Cannella Classroom Teacher: Grade Level: 2-3 School: Number of Students: 20 Lesson Duration: Planning and Teaching = 50 points Planning 1. Content Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able to generate candy made specifically from Mexico. 2. Colorado State Content Standards: Grade Level Expectations: First Grade Standard: 2. Physical and Personal Wellness in Health i. Categorize foods into the major food groups (DOK 1) 3. Learning Target: I can learn to make candy from Mexico. 4. Key Vocabulary: picalimon and saliditos 5. Essential Questions: What if all foods looked and tasted exactly the same? 6. Materials: The mother I interviewed who knows how to make the candy, all the candy ingredients, parent volunteers to help, mixing utensils, other shirts for students to act as aprons, 7. Anticipatory Set: To focus students on the theme, I will ask each child in the classroom to free associate on what types of treats count as candy. Teaching 8. Input: Students will then be asked to hypothesize about the ingredients in each candy. After they had created lists of ingredients teachers passed out candy wrappers and had students identify what ingredients were in American candies and what ingredients were in

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Mexican candies. 9. Modeling: This give them an opportunity to compare and contrast differences in the candy. Students learn that Mexican candy has fewer ingredients and use less artificial color than American candy. I will write some of these differences on the board so the students can see them. 9 . Input: The mother of the Mexican child that I had interviewed will come and teach a lesson on how to make pipitoria (a Mexican candy treat). 9 . Modeling: Students utilized math skills when measuring out the recipe. Fractions and measuring are things they will be able to do but with help and that is why we will do it together. 9 . Input: During the time the candy was baking the mother, through the help of a translator, will be able to tell the kids about some of the differences in food habits between Mexican and Americans. 10. Checking for understanding: This will come through asking the students questions especially through the math portion of making the candy, they will have to know what measurements, utensils, and ingredients to use in order to move on. 11. Guided Practice: as the students are making the candies, other parent volunteers as well as myself will be walking around making sure that the students are following the directions given by the mother I interviewed correctly and if they have any other questions for her as well. 12. Assessment: The assessment will be the production of the actual candy. They will have been able to follow directions to produce something that is of cultural value. 13. Closure: Here we would thank the mother who helped us create such wonderful little treats and talk about how in our own classroom there are many talents that our parents possess that often times get passed down to us and it is a wonderful gift to be able to share with the rest of the world. I will let students know that if there is something that they know their parents are good at and would like to share it with the class they can come up to me and we will discuss how to be able to do that. That way each student will get the opportunity if they so choose to take. 14. Independent practice: The independent practice will show in their future endeavors where they become interested in things that aren't necessarily academically from the classroom, but they are still learning a skill they can use. After candy making:

Students will make advertisements and posters for their candy and will be able to actually wrap and price their candy to sell at school for fundraising. Students will also be asked to write a summary of what they had learned and to formulate new questions about candy and the foods of different countries. From the questions the students come up with I will continue investigating using the childrens research questions and help to develop critical thinking skills for a considerable part of the year.