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This lesson plan summarizes how to teach grade 1 students about Santa Claus traditions around the world. The teacher will read a story about Santa, discuss how Santa traditions vary in different countries, and have students complete a worksheet labeling different versions of Santa with their associated countries. The lesson aims to develop students' understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives.

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Lesson - Santa Names

This lesson plan summarizes how to teach grade 1 students about Santa Claus traditions around the world. The teacher will read a story about Santa, discuss how Santa traditions vary in different countries, and have students complete a worksheet labeling different versions of Santa with their associated countries. The lesson aims to develop students' understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives.

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, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5

Questions to Address in Lesson Planning


Planning for instruction is a complex process of reflective decision-making. The following
questions are designed to guide you in this process. An effective lesson plan answers
these questions in sufficient depth that someone else could teach your lesson.
1. Why is this lesson relevant at this time with these students?
2. What IRP outcome(s) does this lesson develop?
3. What is/are the learning outcome(s) for this specific lesson?
4. What products or actions will evidence that the students have learned?
5. What will you look for in that evidence? (Criteria)
6. What resources, materials and preparation are required?
7. What sources have you used to create this lesson?
8. How will you introduce this lesson in a manner that engages students and activates
their learning?
9. What steps and activities are you going to use to help students acquire the
knowledge, skills and/or attitudes needed to meet the outcome?
10. How much time will you allocate for each portion of the teaching/learning
sequence?
11. How will you solidify the learning that has taken place and deepen the learning
process?
12. How will you plan for students who have learning difficulties and for students who
require enrichment?

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Santas from Around the World


Nam
e:

Jen Hammond

Grad
e
Date

Topic

Created: November 27,


2016
Intended day to teach:
December 1, 2016

Santa Around the World

Allotted
Time 30-45 mins

Cite sources used to develop this plan:


Kidsplayandcreate.com (for Santa names)

1. Rationale: Why is this lesson relevant at this time with these students?
Christmas is approaching, so discussing Santa and how their view of Santa is similar and different to
other childrens view of Santa around the world helps them develop the idea that our view is simply one
point of view and there are many diverse versions of Christmas.

2. Provincial Learning Outcome(s): What IRP outcome(s) does this lesson develop?
English Language Arts:
concepts of print
Reading
Develop appropriate reading, listening and viewing

strategies to make meaning


Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding
Social Studies:
Student Name:

JenHammond

900 Fifth St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5

diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives within the


local and other communities
Recognize that maps are used to represent real places and relate
pictorial representations to their physical locations.
Make comparisons to discover similarities and differences
With teacher prompts, make simple interpretations from information
gathered (e.g., families have similar needs, families have
differences)

3. Assessment
Lesson Outcome
What will students learn?

Sources of Evidence
What product or action will
show what students have
learned?

Big Idea: Concept that other Either:


Countries and cultures have 1) Their correctly
different beliefs
completed writing sheet
Santa is know as _______
in this Country____
Specific: Names for Santa
from different Countries
2) Verbally able to pair up a
Country and the name for
that Santa

Student Name:

JenHammond

Criteria
What will you look for in
this evidence?

1) Completed worksheet
correctly (matched the
correct Santa to the
Country)

2) Correctly paired the


correct Santa to the Country
verbally

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4.
4. Resources, Material and Preparation: What resources, materials and preparation
are required?
9 Santas with their name attached (created and cut out by me)
a map of the world on the Smart Board
Book The Night Before Christmas
Writing template (created by me)
Yellow highlighter
Smart Board
Students will need crayons to colour their picture

5. Lesson Development
Pacing

Introduction: How will you introduce this lesson in a


manner that engages students and activates their
thinking?
2mins

Gather on the carpet to discuss things the children


know about Santa via their senses
What does Santa look like?
What does Santa feel like?
What does Santa smell like?
What does Santa sound like?

Student Name:

JenHammond

900 Fifth St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5

Pacing

Teaching/Learning Sequence: What steps and


activities are you going to use to help students
acquire and practice the knowledge, skills and/or
attitudes needed to meet the outcome?
5mins

Read Book The Night Before Christmas


Discuss how this is a Santa tale from
Canadian/US origins
Discuss Santas from other Countries
Does anybody else call Santa something
else?
Place the Santas on the World Map
Writing Activity
On primary lined paper, fill in the blanks
Santa is known as_______ in this
Country______. Draw Picture of what you
think that Santa would look like

Student Name:

JenHammond

2mins
5mins
20 mins

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Pacing

Teaching/Learning Sequence: (Continued) What


steps and activities are you going to use to help
students acquire and practice the knowledge, skills
and/or attitudes needed to meet the outcome?

Student Name:

JenHammond

900 Fifth St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5

Pacing

Closure: How will you solidify the learning that has


taken place and deepen the learning process?
Ask children what their favourite Santa name is
and where he is from.
If there is time, ask children to talk about the
different Santas with a partner

2mins

5. Accommodations (adaptations, extensions, other): How will you plan for students
who have learning/behaviour difficulties or require enrichment?

Adaptations: Those who do not have the spontaneous printing skills to fill in the blanks on their own will have the name
they chose written in yellow highlighter for them to trace.

Extensions: Those who are advanced in writing will add to their writing Santa is(they will fill in what Santa is to them

Student Name:

JenHammond

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