Social Issues and Culture

Teachers’ Interests: If you are looking for new ideas and activities to teach Music, Arts, Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Bible, and Mathematics, this unit could be an interesting resource to start on. Some ideas from this unit can also be taught until grade 2 or 3 if applicable to the curriculum. In this unit, you might be attracted by the diversity of activities based on the discovering of some culture such as Chinese, African, and Indian.

Purpose: This unit on culture is appropriate to children at grade 1 level because culture is a learned system of shared beliefs and ways of doing things that guide behavior. Cultural differences affect world events and our daily lives. And, time, location, events and people shape cultural beliefs. Practices in cultural diversity enable learners to analyze and explain the ways groups, societies, and cultures address human needs and concerns; learners will predict how data and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives.

Objective: By the end of the unit, students should be able to read and recognize words studied in class, to read a world map and identify cardinal points, to associate drawings with words’ meanings, to produce creative writings, to identify rhyming words and syllables, to demonstrate a general understanding of various cultures studied in class and to incorporate Christian principles into their personal lives.