Irish Culture Activities Mini-Unit | St. Patrick's Day
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Fun and cross-curricular learning about Irish culture and history is not just for St. Patrick's Day - it's interesting and CCSS-based year round! Ireland activities include informational reading, map analysis, color-coding, summarizing, categorizing, design, and more! Enough lesson material for two-three class periods, depending on how you wish to time each activity.
Contents Include:
Learning Targets
Teacher’s Directions
How Much Do You Know? (Anticipatory Engagement Pretest)
Quick Poetry Analysis: “Irish Eyes” (possible bellringer, sponge activity)
St. Patrick Biographical Facts w/ Summarizing/Categorization Activity
Celtic Knot Activity with 2 Papers, Examples, Links to Instructions
Three Maps of Ireland
Task Cards for Map Analysis
Fast Facts About Ireland
Generic Participation/Effort Scoring Guide
Designer and Printer-Friendly Versions Included
Learning Targets:
CCSS RI 2
Determine the central ideas of texts.
Analyze how the main ideas are shaped and can be categorized by specific details.
Summarize a text by combining main ideas.
CCSS W.3c
Sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.
S and L 2
Integrate multiple sources of information visually, quantitatively, aurally.
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