Culture: National Hispanic Heritage Month: Integrating Components of Culture With Curriculum Planning


  
Hispanic Heritage Month: Program gives students lessons in Latino culture, theater


NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

National Hispanic Heritage Month is the period from September 15 to October 15 in the United States, when people recognize the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the country's history, heritage and culture.

Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2020 – Thu, Oct 15, 2020

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 Integrating components of culture with curriculum planning

 Culture is seen from different perspectives but the focus of this paper is on the totality of people’s way of life; those things that bind the society together. In this paper, the key concepts of curriculum, culture, and curriculum planning are explained. The components of culture, namely, universals of culture, specialties of culture and alternatives of culture are discussed. Integration is briefly presented and how to integrate culture in the curriculum planning is discussed. This can be done through situational analysis to identify the necessary cultural contents to be included or integrated in the curriculum. Different modes of delivery to be used are role play, dramatization, collaboration, field trips, games and simulation, and other interactive modes that make learning meaningful and worthwhile. 

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Culture, Community and the Curriculum
Any approach to educational development is a multi-faceted affair, with many dimensions on which decisions must be made, and numerous alternatives from which to choose on each dimension. Of primary importance, however, is that the alternatives selected be commonly understood and agreed upon, and that they reflect consistency from one dimension to the next. A common thread throughout most formal education programs for minority people has been the relative absence of either of these conditions. Only rarely are the ends toward which minority programs are directed made explicit, and when they are, different interpretations exist so that the means used to attain the ends are often inconsistent and sometimes conflicting.

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Competency Based Curriculum

K -12 Curriculum
Correlated to the
Sunshine State Standards
and the Grade Level Expectations
 Volume II

Social Studies / GRADE 5


Integrated Lesson Plan

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 TODAY

Students worked with the MDCPS curriculum to determine with accuracy the competency applicable to the grade level, in accordance with the Sunshine State Standards, for Social Studies, grade five.

Sample Lesson Plans

Team Members:  

Will Shields
Sheila McAndrew
Abbie Codispoti
Sydney Kramer
Sydney feyerick
Social Studies 

Component: Cultural awareness

Objective: Identify major immigrant groups in South Florida.

Competency: Students will be able to compare and contrast the cultural aspects of one United States family with that of another by writing an expository essay.

Unit: Hispanic heritage

Activity that will come from video: Living in South Florida, many students are Hispanic. Students can go home and ask their family/friends for a story about coming to the US and tell the story to the class. 
 
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Team Members: Lauren Fuster, Valerie Izquierdo, Susana Bustamante
Social Studies (subject)
Hispanic Heritage (unit)

Objective: Compare and contrast the customs and traditions of various cultures.
Age Group: 5th grade
Activity: Students will hear and learn about the different types of music from different cultures. They will also learn some of the dances that pertain to the music.
Assessment: Students will talk about which dance is their favorite and what they learned about it. 




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