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By C.W.
Today we started with the do now, “What is a creation myth?” I thought this was an interesting question, because it was not about the actual myth but what it meant. The question leading the class was, “How do people from different cultures view themselves, the world and their origin?”.
We then looked at The UCLA Historical Comprehension and talked about the difference between historical facts and historical interpretation and the importance of knowing what is different about them. We then went over the artifact project and looked at artifacts of utensils. We can do this project of bringing in an artifact by imagining that in the future what ever we bring representing about today’s society. This is a really interesting way of thinking about how to choose our object. We also made assumptions about the people who had owned artifact them based on the kinds of artifacts. We also need to pick an object that represents a group of people of modern culture. When we bring in the artifact we will corroborate our answers on the graphic organizer.
Next, we looked at creation myths. They were from different civilizations. We then filled out a graphic organizer. We went to Big Myth, a website where you can pick the creation myth to learn about. There were the Navajo, Inca, Egyptian, Aboriginal, Zulu, Norse, and Chinese. I thought this was a really cool activity because we could choose which myth we wanted to learn about. The we had a class discussion based some questions.
This lesson is important because we get to look at how different cultures had different ideas about the exact same thing. It is important to social studies because we can look at different histories of different places and see how the stories have shape those place today and how what today reflects the story.
Homework:
Artifact Project due Wednesday
Pick an object you use almost everyday, something important to you and something that represents modern culture. You will also fill out a graphic organizer on the back.
Today we started with the do now, “What is a creation myth?” I thought this was an interesting question, because it was not about the actual myth but what it meant. The question leading the class was, “How do people from different cultures view themselves, the world and their origin?”.
We then looked at The UCLA Historical Comprehension and talked about the difference between historical facts and historical interpretation and the importance of knowing what is different about them. We then went over the artifact project and looked at artifacts of utensils. We can do this project of bringing in an artifact by imagining that in the future what ever we bring representing about today’s society. This is a really interesting way of thinking about how to choose our object. We also made assumptions about the people who had owned artifact them based on the kinds of artifacts. We also need to pick an object that represents a group of people of modern culture. When we bring in the artifact we will corroborate our answers on the graphic organizer.
Next, we looked at creation myths. They were from different civilizations. We then filled out a graphic organizer. We went to Big Myth, a website where you can pick the creation myth to learn about. There were the Navajo, Inca, Egyptian, Aboriginal, Zulu, Norse, and Chinese. I thought this was a really cool activity because we could choose which myth we wanted to learn about. The we had a class discussion based some questions.
This lesson is important because we get to look at how different cultures had different ideas about the exact same thing. It is important to social studies because we can look at different histories of different places and see how the stories have shape those place today and how what today reflects the story.
Homework:
Artifact Project due Wednesday
Pick an object you use almost everyday, something important to you and something that represents modern culture. You will also fill out a graphic organizer on the back.