TAKE & GO

2021 NCTA/OSU SUMMER SEMINAR

LESSON DELIVERABLES

THEME/TOPIC

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STANDARDS

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ACTIVITIES

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ASSESSMENTS

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RESOURCES

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EXTENSIONS

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Introduction with subject, grade level, and 2-3 sentence summary

Connections to national or common core standards, lesson objectives, and essential questions

Description of materials and lesson activities--the majority of content

for the module

Suggested formative and summative assessments

Websites, videos, readings, etc.

Cross-curricular connections or other lesson extensions

My Tangram Animals

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Animals and their traits

INTRODUCTION

TITLE-My Tangram Animals Students will explore Chinese tangram puzzles and will be able to make at least five different animals with tangrams. They will describe their tangram animals with various verbs and adjectives and conjunctions, and interact with their class about what animals they have and/or like and describe how they animals look like.

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GRADES: 9The content of this module can be adapted and used

by Chinese content area teachers at 7-9 grade levels for content introduction, review, etc.

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STANDARDS

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STANDARDS

NATIONAL

Ohio -world Language

ACTF:

COMMUNICATION

• Presentational Communication: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
• Interpersonal Communication: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.

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Interpersonal intercultural communication:

• Exchange Information: Request and share information on familiar and everyday topics.
• Express and React to Preferences and Opinions Express, ask about and react to simple preferences, feelings or opinions on familiar topics.
• Present information using mo
• Presentational speaking or signingstly simple sentences and transitions.

My Tangram animals

Animals

Adjectives

LEARNING GOALS

Make animals out of tangrams and describe their animals with various adjectives and verbs.

LESSON OBJECTIVES:

Practice interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational use of the Chinese language.

Students can

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

B.What are the different negative words for various verbs?

C.What questions can you ask to interact with someone about animals?

A. What are the various verbs and adjectives you can use to describe animals?

ACTIVITIES

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MATERIALS

For this lesson, teachers will need to prep:

Access to StoryJumper

YouTube “A Sage’s Journey: The story of Tangrams

Class set of Tangrams

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For this lessons, students will need:

iPad with Chinese character input enabled

Access to website: Yu and the God of Thunder

Paper handouts

Paper and markers for making a book (optional)

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ACTIVITIES

1. Students will read the Chinese legend about “Yu and the God of Thunder” and watch the YouTube video “A Sage’s Journey: The story of Tangrams” to establish their prior knowledge about Tangram. Students will work on a worksheet for exit slip.

2.Students will have a set of tangrams to try out by following the guideline to make the shapes as indicated in the website. https://mathigon.org/tangram. Then students will work in small groups and make anything out of Tangram, and then any animals. Share with their group members and describe their tangram animals in Chinese, i.g. This is my “dog”. He is cute and small. He likes to eat.

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ACTIVITIES

3.Students will listen to the story“Grandfather Li’s Story” made by the teacher in the StoryJumper and complete a worksheet to check their comprehension. The teacher will use different language patterns to interact with the students to engage students, empower students to use the target language and enhance their communication skills.

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4. Students will work on their project on Storyjumper, MS Power Point, or a paper book for 3 days. See rubric.

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ACTIVITIES

5.Students will present their project. After the presentation, the class will interact with the presenter by asking questions with “what” “yes/no”, and “how” to reinforce their interpretative, presentational, and interpersonal communication skills.

Example of questions

• 你喜欢什么动物？
• 你的狗会游泳吗？
• 你的猫可爱不可爱？

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ASSESSMENTS

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Pre-Module and Post-Module Options

ASSESSMENT OPTIONS

Pre-test

• Quizlett: vocabulary quiz
• Speaking: The teacher circulating questions with Images of different animals

Post-test

• Presentation on My Tangram Animal Storybook

RESOURCES

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ACTIVITIES

EXTENSIONS

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Additional Attachments or Resources

EXTENSIONS!

Integrated with colors

Math

Grandfather Tang’s story

Add the color vocabulary in your sentences to describe your tangram animals.

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Compare the size of the tangram pieces. Calculate the area or the angle from the tangram.

Read the story and retell the story in Chinese at your language level

OSU SUMMER SEMINAR TEAM

HAVE FUN CREATING SOMETHING YOU CAN USE AND OTHERS WILL APPRECIATE TOO!

NOW IT’S

YOUR TURN!

Questions?

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Angie Stokes

stokesam@hotmail.com

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