German Cities
Created By:
Alex Kerber
Title/Role:
Student Teacher
Organization/School Name:
University of Maryland
Location:
District of Columbia
Grade Level:
9, 10, 11, 12 Type of Lesson:
Stand-alone lesson Type of Schedule:
Flexible Collaboration Continuum:
Moderate Content Area:
Foreign languages Content Topic:
German cities Scenario:
The students in German 2 have been studying communication skills related to leisure activities and travel. As part of the assessment of their communication skills, they are asked to create wiki articles in German based on the example of Wikitravel (wikitravel.org). Each student is assigned a German-speaking city about which to research and create an article. The activity, taught in collaboration with the school librarian, incorporates information literacy skills into the communication skills of the unit by asking the students to use information sources to create their articles. The librarian will focus on teaching the specific skills necessary for finding and evaluating information sources, using wikispaces to create the wikis, and the importance of citing sources. Overview:
Travel and leisure activities are popular conversation topics in many cultures. Opinions of leisure and travel activities vary with each person's interests and previous experiences. In this lesson, the learners are asked to create travel advice articles about German-speaking cities. Final Product:
A wiki page, written in German, containing researched information about tourist activities in a German-speaking city. Library Lesson:
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
Language/communications goals
1. describe, in writing, leisure activities in a specific German-speaking city
Information literacy goals
1. search for and interpret information relevant to the task
2. create a wiki page incorporating text and media
3. correctly cite sources used in creating wiki Estimated Lesson Time:
75 minutes Have you taught this lesson before:
Yes Strategies for differentiation:
Various learning styles are accommodated through the integration of media into the lesson. Free choice is given here to allow students to choose which types of media they prefer. Kinesthetic learners are not specifically accommodated here, but could be in further use of the projects (ex: TPRS activities using the wikis as guides for the stories). Differentiation could be included based on individual student needs using modified rubric guidelines.