A Nepalese village and your town: What's the difference?
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A lesson plan for Grade 3 Social Studies and English Language Arts
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 3
- Subjects
- English language arts (writing), social studies (Asia, world cultures), thinking skills (critical literacy, higher order thinking, information literacy, research skills, visual literacy), education technology (integrating technology), teaching methods (online learning)
- Provider
- National Geographic
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In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore the cultural customs of rural Nepal and consider the differences between Nepalese culture and their own.
Students will:
- discuss what it would be like to travel to a country very different from their own;
- locate Nepal on a map and learn its main religion and language;
- view photographs on the Web and take notes comparing rural Nepalese culture with their own;
- discuss their observations of rural Nepalese culture and how they think Nepalese kids would view North American culture; and
- write pretend letters from Nepalese kids describing Nepalese culture and write additional letters from themselves, describing life in their hometowns, pointing out the similarities and differences between North American and Nepalese cultures.
Xpeditions provides detailed instructions for completing the lesson, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, and links to necessary web resources.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 3
- Goal 4: The learner will explain geographic concepts and the relationship between people and geography in real life situations.
- Objective 4.01: Distinguish between various types of maps and globes.
- Objective 4.02: Use appropriate source maps to locate communities.
- Objective 4.03: Use geographic terminology to describe and explain variations in the physical environment as communities.
- Objective 4.04: Compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment to meet their needs.
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 3
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.04: Make informed judgments about television productions.
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.02: Use oral and written language to:
- present information in a sequenced, logical manner.
- discuss.
- sustain conversation on a topic.
- share information and ideas.
- recount or narrate.
- answer open-ended questions.
- report information on a topic.
- explain own learning.
- Objective 4.06: Compose a draft that conveys major ideas and maintains focus on the topic by using preliminary plans.
- Objective 4.07: Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama selections using self-selected topics and forms (e.g., poems, simple narratives, short reports, learning logs, letters, notes, directions, instructions).
- Objective 4.09: Produce work that follows the conventions of particular genres (e.g., personal narrative, short report, friendly letter, directions and instructions).
- Objective 4.02: Use oral and written language to:
