Culturally Responsive Teaching

Target Audience: English Language Learners: 24 Latino

students, 4 Vietnamese students. No students are US natives.

Title 1 high school: 90% free and reduced lunches

UNIT 3: THE BIOSPHERE/LA BIOSFERA/SINH QUYểNFood Chains and Food Webs

Strategies

English language assistance: provide translated key words, reading assignments, and activities.

S-L-O-W D-O-W-N Visual Aids Utilize translators and paraprofessionals. Make it relevant!! Personal, real life, active!

Levels of the Food Chain/niveles/cấp Top Level Carnivore: Carnívoro del nivel superior

First Level Carnivore: Primer carnívoro del nivel

Herbivore: Herbívoro

Decomposer: Decomposer/

Descompóngase

Producer: Productor

Top Level Carnivore: -Loài ăn thịt mức Đỉnh

First Level Carnivore: Loài ăn thịt mức Đầu tiên

Herbivore: Động vật ăn cỏ

Decomposer: Thể phân hủy

Producer: Người sản xuất

Visual Aid Food Chain

Illinois Native Animals:

Red Tailed Hawk

Great Horned Owl

Leopard Frog

Grasshopper

Prairie Grass

Food Chains and Food Webs

Cadena alimentaria

Chuỗi thức ăn

Web de alimento Mạng Thức ăn

Food Chain Food Web

Language Guide

Halcón atado rojo

Gran buho de cuernos

Rana de leopardo

Saltamontes

Hierba de pradera

Chim ưng Có đuôi Đỏ

Con Cú Có sừng Lớn

ếch cự

con châu chấu

Cỏ Đồng cỏ

A slightly more complex food chain (web) that would be seen in Mexico

Assesment/Assignment from Previous Class

Break students into groups of 4. Assign groups 2 organisms. Each group will get a list of all other

organisms involved in our food web. Groups are required to research what on the

provided list their organisms eat, and what, if anything, eats them. I will provide their organisms’ level designation (1st level carnivore, producer, etc.).

The Vietnamese students will work together and will be given the same information. Students will be required to guess the interactions of the other animals.

List Of Native Animals To Be Provided If Necessary

Mexico: Mexican Grey Wolf,

Coyote, Fox, Mule Deer, Opposum, Ocelot, Jaguar, Spider Monkey, Armadillo, Tapir, Quetzal, Flamingo, Hummingbird, Catfish, Tuna, Sardine, Tapir, Mexican Blonde Tarantula, Black Vulture, Mexican Mushroom, Mexican Bean Beetle, Tiger Rat Snake, Vine Snake, Barred Owl, Crested Eagle, Rough-legged Hawk, Long Antennae Mexican Moth, Agave, Orchid, Purple Sage, Cactus, Pampas Grass, Oleander.

Vietnam: Yellow Macaque, Spotted

Deer, Asian Elephants, Lar Gibbon, Asiatic Black Bear, Green Sea Turtle, Reticulated Python, Rice Field Rat, Vietnamese Pheasant, Tiger, Pot-Bellied Pig, Asian Vulture, Hog Badger, Red Billed Tropic Bird, Eared Grebe, Great Frigatebird, Osprey, Lesser Fish Eagle, Amur Falcon, Grey Headed Parakeet, Matapa aria (Butterfly), Two Striped Jumping Spider, Vietnamese Moth, Elephant Grass, Vietnamese Mushroom, Rice, Orchid.

Sharing is Caring

The Latino groups and the Vietnamese groups will be responsible for their country’s food chains. They will be required to act as leaders during the activity for their particular food chain.

Application!!!

The students with Top Level Carnivores will be given a ball of yarn.

Each student will have a card with the name of their organism written. The student who begins has to hand the ball of yarn to their “prey.” The original predator must keep hold of the yarn, and just pass the ball. The yarn will be passed from organism to organism based on what they eat. When one organism is eaten by more than one predator, new balls of yarn will be introduced. This will lead to certain organisms holding more than one piece of yarn.

Asian Elephant

Rice Field RatSpotted

Deer

OspreyReticulated Python

Rice

Elephant Grass

Tiger

Mexican Vine

Snake

Crested Eagle

Mexican Blonde

Tarantula

Pampas Grass

Tapir

Spider Monkey

JaguarMexican

Grey Wolf

Barred Owl

Mule Deer

Long Antennae Mexican

Moth

Orchid

Make connections!

Interdependence!

Anyone get eaten by more than one predator?

Anyone eat more than one organism?

Recognize from home?

Share stories!

Humans?

Assessment/Assignment cont.

Assessment will also be based on

completion of in class activity Take home assignment: construct a food

web based on animals/plants from their country of origin.

They are to include at least 2 top level carnivores, 4 first level carnivores (omnivores acceptable), 3 herbivores, and 3 producers.

Resources for assignment

Desert Biome http://www.enchanted

learning.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml

Mexican Red Knee Tarantula

Rainforest Biome http://www.enchanted

learning.com/subjects/rainforest/animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml

Civet Cat

This assignment was designed to allow students to recognize and understand food webs based on animals from their country of origin.

When a student can recognize an organism from home, they are more likely to feel some connection to the material being taught!

Cultural Pride!

Make it relevent!!! Relate it to them!