1. W. Iromi Navoda Fernando
Cultural Diversity
W. Iromi Navoda Fernando
(Which International Culture Do You Actually Belong In, 2014).

2. Cultural Diversity Unit Design
Lesson
Sequence
Focus
Engagement
Cultural show
Clicking the icons and exploring the world around us
Children in groups discussing how we are different/same and making a word wall
Smart board game: drag and drop differences and similarities to the correct boxes.
Children drawing the cultural differences and similarities and explaining their drawing to the class.
The purpose of this lesson is to develop children’s understanding about other cultural aspects. For the children to learn to respect other cultures they need to have an understanding what others cultures look alike. Without children engaging with other cultures it makes really difficult for them to understand what other cultures means. So this phrase of learning will be a engaging learning experiences. Children will be exposed to the different cultures of their friends in the class room. At the end of this lesson all students should feel that they are spoken to personally from their own culture.
Empowerment
Clicking the icons and exploring how different cultures reside stories to children in different ways.
Read or show 3 different stories to the children about cultural differences. (Compare and contract)
Now they know cultural differences and they know different cultures present books in different ways. So now children will start designing their own book for the children in a migration centre and will present the draft book to the class.
The purpose of this lesson is to empower the students to see how much they can do with the knowledge they have about cultural diversity. As a teacher I will provide tools and materials and students has to play to learn in this lesson. Real learning take place at this time and all support will be provided for the students to engage in learning.
Exploration
Children learning how to make the story book interesting and relevant for the migration centre children.
Adding Rhyming words to make the story musical.
Introduce google translate option.
Explore different websites how to prepare story books and present with audio and video method.
Explore how to use pitch to present different emotions using Avata
Children continuing developing story using different IT tools.
The purpose of this lesson is to send the students to the real community and to impact the community. Children have learn from the community and they know that we have a diversified community. Also they know different cultures have different ways of saying stories. They have come out with text ( story books) based on that knowledge. At this stage children will be supported and prepared to go back to the community to present it to an audience. World – word – World model by (Lian, 2014b). Children has to self assess whether they can impact/connect with the children in the migration centre. They have to identify better ways to make the story interesting to the migration centre children.
Relevance
Pretend TV interview about the children’s creation
Compare and contrast their book with another multicultural book
Buddy reading their book to year 1 class and self evaluate the book
The purpose of this lesson is to provide activities for the students to personalize, self assess and learn in a personally relevant way to talk to the target audience.
Create and Evaluate
Exploring how to prepare a brochure/poster about the story telling event at the migration centre.
Creating a poster by children about the event
Self asses what they learned from this unit by using a smart note book game.
Formative assessment of the book and poster ( Interview)
The purpose of this lesson is to provide opportunities for the children to further create text for a purpose (based on their learned understanding of this unit) and to evaluate how they create text to impress audience and to impact relationship.
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3. Topic Topic No author Author - children Story start?
Time
Learning experience
Planning and resources
60 minutes
Relevance lesson two : Provide variety of multi cultural printed books and tell the children to compare and contrast their own book with one selected book. Tell the children to tell the similarities and differences of their book and the selected book.
Multicultural books 25
Story start?
Pictures real or photo’s?
Topic
Cultural symbols?
Topic
Rhyming words?
Pitch and tone of the story?
Repetitive words?
End?
No author
Author - children
Which book is better to
Migration centre children?
Why?
(Green, 2015).
(O'Bryan, n.d.).
We're Different We're the Same:
(We Are All Alike...We Are All Different, n.d)
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Appendix 1:
Log into www. prezi.com
……………………
Password: …………..
Presentation : Where we come from?
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5. We are different because
Appendix 2
Our multicultural word wall – Decorate with multicultural show photo’s to add relevance
We are different because We
look
different
eat
food
dress
clothes
speak
language
dance
live in
houses
sing
songs
read
books
play
games
worship in
places (temples/church)
all are
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(Lakeshore Multicultural Clothing Set, n.d)

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Appendix 2
Our multicultural word wall – Decorate with multicultural show photo’s to add relevance
We are same because We
all
have
one
body
breath to
live
need
friends
to talk
eat and drink
love
safe
place to live
blood
in our body
are
human
same
too.
Eat and drink
blood
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(Please see the smart board game folder appendix 3 – Need to have smart note book software.
Game developed by Navoda Fernando)
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(Tushington,2007).
(Mandarin Chinese Education,2011).
(Geethanjali, 2015).
Aboriginal Children’s Story
Chinese story
Indian children’s story
中国儿童故事 Zhōngguó értóng gùshì
भारतीय बच्चों को कहानी
Bhāratīya baccōṁ kō kahānī
Appendix 5 - Stories around the world
ශ්රී ලාංකික දරුවන් කතාව
śaraī laāṁkaika darauvana kataāva
African children’s Stories
UK children’s stories
Australian children’s Stories
Sri Lankan and Nepal Stories
Watoto wa Afrika hadithi
(Booboo's Preschool & Kindergarten,2012).
(Aarsenault, 2010)
(Cholamattam, 2013).
(Agginie, 2013).
नेपाल छोराछोरीलाई कहानी
Nēpāla chōrāchōrīlā'ī kahānī
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