This lesson plan aims to teach preschool children about their families' traditions and cultures. The children will create digital stories with their families answering questions about where their family is from, what language they speak at home, and their favorite foods and holidays. The families will incorporate pictures, videos, music and podcasts from their culture. The children will then present their digital stories to celebrate diversity at their school's cultural festival in May. The teacher will assess the children based on their knowledge of their family's culture, comprehension of their family, and ability to apply words in their home language.

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Newark Preschool Council
Center: Sharpe James
Teacher: Liliana Gallego
Date: August 9, 2010
Lesson Plan Title: “All About My Family” Multicultural Digital Story (Family’s project).
Concept / Topic To Teach:
Where is my family from?
What are my family traditions?
Level: Preschool
Standards Addressed:
Standard 6.1: Children identify unique characteristics of themselves, their families, and
others.
6.1.1 Describe characteristics of oneself, one’s family, and others
6.1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of family roles and traditions.
6.4.1. Learn about and respect other cultures within the classroom and community.
Standard 7.1: Children know that people use different languages (including sign language)
to communicate, and will express simple greetings, words, and phrases in a language other
than their own.
7.1.1 Acknowledge that a language other than their own is being spoken or used (e.g., in a
story, rhyme, or song).
7.1.2 Say simple greetings, words, and phrases in a language other than their own.
7.1.3 Comprehend previously learned simple vocabulary in a language other than their own.

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Standard 8.3: Begin to use electronic devices to communicate.
8.3.1. Use electronic devices (e.g., computer) to type name and to create stories with
pictures and letters/words.
General Goal(s): Children will be able to name two out of three aspects of their own
family by creating “All About My Family” Digital Story with their family.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Synthesis.
Specific Objectives:
 Children will be able to explain the favorite activity of their family by drawing a
picture.
Bloom’s taxonomy: Comprehension.
 Children will be able to select their favorite food by working with plastic food at
Dramatic Play area.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Evaluation.
 Children will be able to recognize the flag of their family’s country by looking the
picture, or the really flag.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge.
 Children will be able to demonstrate knowledge of their home language by singing a
song, reading a book, or reciting a poem.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Application.
 Children will be able to negotiate with partners and teacher by exploring and
celebrating similarities and differences among children, lifestyles, and cultures.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Analysis.
Required Materials: Computer with a microphone and camera, video editing program
(imovie, photoshow, etc.), internet connection, family’s pictures.

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Step-By-Step Procedures:
1. The parents and child can start by answering the following questions,
a) Where is my family from?
b) What language we speak at home?
c) What is my family’s favorite food?
d) How we celebrate the holidays?
e) What is the child’s favorite book?
f) What is the child’s favorite game?
2. Parents must show the flag of your county to the children to encourage them to identify
the flag’s colors.
3. Find some family’s pictures, and talk about relationships, clothes, time, and places
looking at the pictures.
4. Choose a book in your home language and read together.
5. The family can play a traditional game of your country.
6. Listen to the music in your own language.
7. Choose a song in your home languages and sing together.
8. Open a new folder on your computer (Digital Story), in order to save all your files or
pictures in the same place.
9. Select the program to create the Digital Story.
10. The family can create podcasts, and videos.
11. Put all files together (pictures, videos, music, podcasts), and save the Digital Story.
12. Let the teacher knows the Digital Story by publishing at internet or creating a DVD.

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During the process Let the child asks questions, give her/his opinion, ideas, and enjoy
spending time together. In addition the family can go to the school to ask questions to the
teacher.
Closure (Reflect Anticipatory Set):
Children, family, and teachers will be able to celebrate Diversity Festival on May, 2011 by
planning the activities during the school year.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Synthesis.
Teacher notes
The teacher has a thematic unit to develop with children at school by doing the following
activities,
 Read books in different languages.
 Dance to music from different counties.
 Learn songs in different languages.
 Identify the colors of the flags.
 Create art projects about different countries.
 Decorate the school with the national symbols of the different countries.
 Invite family or community member from different countries to spending time with
the children at school.

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Assessment Based On Objectives:
The assignment will be evaluated using the rubric below,
CATEGORY yes with help not yet
Knowledge Child recognizes all Child recognizes some Children can’t
the flag’s colors of flag’s colors of her/his recognize any flag’s
her/his family’s family’s country. color of her/his
country. family’s country.
Comprehension Child names two out of Child names one out of Child can’t name any
three aspects of her/ two aspects of he/his aspects of her/his own
his own family. own family. family.
Application Child says a lot of Child says some words Child can’t say any
words, and phrases in in her/his home words in her/his home
her/his home language. language. language.
Enthusiasm Facial expressions and Facial expressions and Very little use of
body language body language facial expressions or
generate a strong sometimes generate a body language. Did not
interest and strong interest and generate much
enthusiasm about enthusiasm about interest in the
different cultures. different cultures. different cultures.

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Resources
Electronic sources
Asqui, M., My family. Retrieved August 9 2010,
from:http://flenj.org/CAPS/ThematicallyOrganizedAssessmentTasks/NoviceTasks
/LeisureTime-Myfamily.doc
Bloom, B., Bloom’s Taxonomy. Retrieved August 9 2010,
from:http://www.llcc.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=%2F0BA4qlDaAE
%3D&tabid=3938
New Jersey State Department of Education, Preschool Teaching and Learning
Standards. Retrieved August 10 2010, from:
http://www.state.nj.us/education/cccs/2009/PreSchool.doc
Print sources
Kirszner,L., & Mandell, S,. (2008). The Pocket Wadsworth Handbook.
Bostron, MA: Lyn Uhl.
Lomas, C,. (1990). Family Pictures.
San Francisco, CA: Marwin Productions.
Photographs
Children of Sharpe James center, Newark. Personal photograph by
Gallego, Liliana. February 2008.
Children of Sharpe James center, Newark. Personal photograph by
Gallego, Liliana. March 2009.
Families of Sharpe James center, Newark. Personal photograph by
Gallego, Liliana. May 2010.
Karpollo Restaurant, Newark. Personal photograph by
Gallego, Liliana. August 2010.

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Teachers of Sharpe James center, Newark. Personal photograph by
Gallego, Liliana. May 2010.
Video
Tortorelo, Donato. We Are Learning Italian Language.
Cond. Gallego Liliana, 2008.
Perez, Victoria. All About My Family.
Cond. Gallego Liliana, 2010
Recording
Vives, Carlos. La parrandita.
Disonex S.A, 1989.
Montoy, Nelson. Diversity Festival.
Cond. Gallego Liliana, 2010.