Introduction
Let's Take a Cultural Journey
This webquest has been designed for 4th grade A2 level students as a take home exam for FLE308 Teaching English to Young Learners class. 14 Students are enrolled in private Doğa College and they have 6 English classes each week.
In this webquest, you will get to know more about five different countries and their cultures from your seats. Have you ever wondered how the other children in other parts of the world live? How do they see the world? How different and similar are you in your cultures? What language do they speak? What are their religions?
Get ready for the cultural snapshot of 5 different countries!
Explore this webquest to learn about the different cultures of India, China, England, Ethiopia, and Greece.
Let's go...
Task
You will visit five different websites to learn about the cultures of five countries. While you are going over the pages, do not forget to compare the languages, religions, and traditions of these cultures with your own culture!
Think about similarities and differences about them. You will write your opinions about these cultures and you will also make a presentation.
Process
Let's Take a Cultural Journey
1- You will work on this webquest individually.
2- You have two "Cultural Snapshot" handouts in front of you.
3- Use the first handout to add information about your own culture in Turkey.
4- Reserve the second "Cultural Snapshot" document.
5- Visit all of the website links below to learn about these five countries.
6- While you visit the websites, read about the religions practiced, languages spoken, and traditions that the various cultures have. For each country, you need to click on the links on the left part of the page to learn more. Take a special look at "Day in the Life" link to learn how other children live in other countries.
China India England Ethiopia Greece
Click here to go to an online dictionary website to find the words you do not know.
7- After you examine all links, choose the most interesting country for you.
8- Prepare your second "Cultural Snapshot" handout and fill in the blanks with the culture of that country.
9- Your teacher will give you a sheet of "Friendly Letter Writing Paper".
10- Now, take this "Friendly Letter Writing Paper" to write an informative letter to your parents or relatives. Tell them about the similarities and differences between Turkish culture and the most interesting culture for you. Take your paper to home and share it with your family.
11- After you finish writing, the classroom will be divided into two groups. Your teacher will give each group a cartoon paper.
12- In each group, there will be 7 students. You will form your own groups. And you will prepare a short presentation about each 5 countries. In your presentation, you need to write about differences and similarities, languages, cultures, religions and 1 most interesting fact.
Evaluation
Cultural Journey WebQuest Rubric
Name: ___________________________
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Category |
2 Points |
1 Point |
0 Points |
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Process |
Visited all 5 websites. |
Visited 3-4 websites. |
Visited 2 websites or less. |
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Product |
Completed both "Cultural Snapshot" documents. |
Completed one "Cultural Snapshot" document. |
Did not complete any "Cultural Snapshot" documents. |
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Product |
Friendly letter contains at least 10 sentences or more. |
Friendly letter contains less than 10 sentences. |
Friendly letter was not completed. |
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Presentation |
Made a short group presentation about all countries |
Made a short group presentation about some countries |
Did not make a group presetation |
Total Points: ____________ Additional Comments:
Conclusion
I think you are tired after seeing so many countries.
Well done!
Today you have explored 5 different countries and their cultures and you did not have to visit these countries to learn about them. You learnt how other children in other countries spend their lives. You saw similarities and differences among these cultures. Was there anything special for you? Anything surprising?
You have seen that we are all different but the same! There are different cultures, religions, and traditions but we can live together. This means we are unique people who live in a diverse world.
Respect others if you want to be respected by others.
Credits
Credits
http://society-politics.blurtit.com/32767/what-are-cultural-differences
http://agypsy.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/cultural-differences-between-ind…
http://questgarden.com/169/42/1/140327160138/conclusion.html
http://www.wikihow.com/images/3/3b/Understand-and-Admire-Cultural-Diffe…
http://www.idist.ru/Informazia/bolshoj_mir_s_ladoshkami.jpg
http://haydardirici.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/genetik-acidan-insanlar…
http://www.siliconeer.com/past_issues/2013/november-2013/PAGE-TRAVEL-BA…
http://questgarden.com/98/96/3/100322095035/index.htm
http://www.cicb.net/en/home/examples
http://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/book_of_body_language/chap5.h…
http://www.pinterest.com/ljag/world-cultures-for-kids/
http://stayathomemoms.about.com/od/activitiesandfun/a/world-cultures.htm
Author Biography
Ahmet KURNAZ
My name is Ahmet Kurnaz and I am a 3rd year FLE student at Middle East Technical University. I have created this webquest as a take-home exam in FLE308 Teaching English to Young Learners class. I have had some short-term experience with young learners but I have a long road to go to be the ideal teacher for them.
Permission
This webquest can be used for educational purposes.
Teacher Page
by Ahmet KURNAZ, METU
This webquest has been designed for 4th grade A2 level students as a take home exam for FLE308 Teaching English to Young Learners class. 14 Students are enrolled in private Doğa College and they have 6 English classes each week.
In this webquest, students get to know more about five different countries and their cultures from their seats. They will try to have answer for the questions such as: Have you ever wondered how the other children in other parts of the world live? How do they see the world? How different and similar are you in your cultures? What language do they speak? What are their religions? Also, this webquest will give them a chance to see that differences are not something that they should be afraid of, but it is something that creates uniqueness and diversity in the world.
Resources:
http://society-politics.blurtit.com/32767/what-are-cultural-differences
http://agypsy.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/cultural-differences-between-ind…
http://questgarden.com/169/42/1/140327160138/conclusion.html
http://www.wikihow.com/images/3/3b/Understand-and-Admire-Cultural-Diffe…
http://www.idist.ru/Informazia/bolshoj_mir_s_ladoshkami.jpg
http://haydardirici.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/genetik-acidan-insanlar…
http://www.siliconeer.com/past_issues/2013/november-2013/PAGE-TRAVEL-BA…-110901824-Converted.jpg
http://questgarden.com/98/96/3/100322095035/index.htm
http://www.cicb.net/en/home/examples
http://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/book_of_body_language/chap5.h…
http://questgarden.com/169/42/1/140327160138/index.htm
http://www.pinterest.com/ljag/world-cultures-for-kids/
http://stayathomemoms.about.com/od/activitiesandfun/a/world-cultures.htm