Welcome
to South Korea!
Alia
Hamka
Jenny
Mc Cloud
Lindsay
Range
Jennifer
Ruthenberg
Bethany
Shelton
WELCOME TO SOUTH KOREA!
South Korea's
official name is Taihan-Min-quk (tie-HAHN min-GUK), or the Republic of Korea.
More than forty million people live in South Korea, most of them descendants of
the tribes that came to the Korean Peninsula thousands of years ago. South
Korea is about thirty-eight hundred square miles, about the size of Virginia.
Korea is a mountainous land and known by its people as Choson, the "Land
of the Morning Calm," because of the beautiful misty mornings in the
mountains.
Level: Upper
Elementary
Period
Length:
Each lesson is 50 minutes each day for three days.
Core
Democratic Value:
Economic Freedom: The right to buy, sell and trade private
property and the right to employment without the government interfering.
Prior
Skills of Students:
Familiar with their own culture
Know how to work
cooperatively in groups
Basic map skills
Basic
library/research skills
Basic
computer/Internet skills
How to conduct a
debate
* If students lack certain computer or research
skills they will learn because the teachers will demonstrate everything that is
expected by the students.
Controversial
Issue:
Should North Korea and South Korea become one country? The students will be divided into two
groups. One group representing
South Korea and the other group will represent North Korea. After research the class will conduct a
debate and then vote to decide whether the two countries should become one.
Five
Senses:
Touch- Korean
currency, Korean photographs, products made by Korea, Korean musical instruments,
Ho-Am Art Museum
Listen- Korean
music and instruments, Korean poetry
Taste- Korean
homemade food
View- Debate
between North and South Korean government, Korean religion, Ho-Am Art Museum
Smell- Korean
food
Technology
Used:
Internet- research, background information
Tape player- listen to Korean music
T.V. and V.C.R.
List of Books Related
To Korea for Upper Elementary through Middle School
The Best Older Sister
(Yearling First Choice Chapter Book (Cloth)
Sook Nyul Choi, et al / Hardcover 1997
The Best Older Sister
(Yearling First Choice Chapter Book (Paper)
Sook Nyul Choi, et al / Paperback 1997
Blue Dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles
Riots
Nancy Abelmann, John Lie / Hardcover 1995
A Busy Day at Mr. Kang's
Grocery Store (Our Neighborhood (New York, N.Y.)
Christine Osinski (Illustrator), Alice K. Flanagan / Paperback
1997
A Busy Day at Mr. Kang's Grocery Store (Our
Neighborhood)
Alice K. Flanagan, Christine Osinski (Illustrator) / School & Library
Binding 1996
A Cab Called Reliable : A Novel
Patti Kim / Hardcover 1997
Caught in the Middle : Korean Merchants in America's
Multiethnic Cities
Pyong Gap Min, Pyong Gap Min / Paperback 1996
The Chicken Pox Panic (The Cul-De-Sac Kids) Beverly Lewis / Mass Market Paperback 1995
Clay Walls
Kim Ronyoung / Hardcover 1986
Comfort Woman
Nora Okja Keller / Hardcover 1997
Don't Bug Me, Molly (Cinnamon Lake Mysteries) Dandi
Daley MacKall, et al / Paperback 1997
The Double Dabble Surprise (The Cul-De-Sac Kids)
Beverly Lewis / Mass Market Paperback 1995
East to America : Korean American Life Stories Elaine H. Kim (Editor), et al / Hardcover 1996
East to America : Korean American Life Stories Elaine
H. Kim, et al / Paperback 1997
Families Are Different
Nina Pellegrini / School & Library Binding 1991
Father's Rubber Shoes
Yumi Heo / Hardcover 1995
Father's Rubber Shoes
Yumi Heo / Library Binding 1995
From the Land of Morning Calm : The Koreans in America
(Asian-American Experience)
Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff / Library Binding 1994
The Golden Mountain : The Autobiography of a Korean
Immigrant, 1895-1960 (The Asian American Experience)
Easurk Emsen Charr, Wayne Patterson (Editor) / Paperback 1996
Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom
Suzy Kline, et al / Hardcover 1998
If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun
Marie G. Lee / Paperback 1995
In the New World : The Making of a Korean American
Peter Hyun / Paperback 1995
Korean Americans (Footsteps to America)
Alexandra Bandon / Library Binding 1994
The Korean Americans (The Immigrant Experience)
Brian Lehrer / Library Binding 1995
The Korean Americans (The Immigrant Experience)
Brian Lehrer, Sandra Stotsky (Editor) / Paperback 1995
The Koreans in America
Wayne Patterson, Hyung-Chan Kim / Paperback 1993
Necessary Roughness
Marie G. Lee / Hardcover 1996
Necessary Roughness
Marie G. Lee / Paperback 1998
The Photograph
Joe Porcelli, Charles L. Wyrick / Hardcover 1995
Quiet Odyssey : A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
Mary Paik Lee / Paperback 1990
Racial Conflict and Healing : An Asian-American
Theological Perspective ~
Andrew Sung Park / Hardcover 1996
Rosie's Tiger
Anna Myers / Hardcover 1994
Saying Goodbye
Marie G. Lee / Hardcover 1994
Song Lee and the Hamster Hunt
Suzy Kline, et al / School & Library Binding 1994
Song Lee and the Hamster Hunt
Suzy Kline, et al / Paperback 1996
Song Lee in Room 2B
Suzy Kline, et al / School & Library Binding 1993
Song Lee in Room 2B (A Young Puffin)
Suzy Kline, et al / Paperback 1995
Still Life With Rice : A Young American Woman
Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother
Helie Lee, Hetie Lee / Paperback 1997
Tae's Sonata
Haemi Balgassi / Hardcover 1997
Tall Boy's Journey
Joanna Halpert Kraus, Karen Ritz (Illustrator) / Paperback 1993
Tall Boy's Journey (Middle-Grade Fiction)
Joanna Halpert Kraus, Karen Ritz (Illustrator) / Library Binding 1992
Youn Hee & Me
C. S. Adler / Hardcover 1995
Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip
Sook Nyul Choi, Karen Dugan (Illustrator) / Hardcover 1997
Bridging the Gaps : Contextualization Among Korean
Nazarene Churches in America
(Asia Thought and Culture, Vol 18)
In-Gyeong Kim Lundell / Hardcover 1995
Caught in the Middle : Korean Merchants in America's
Multiethnic Cities
Pyong Gap Min / Hardcover 1996
Community in Crisis : New Directions for the Korean
American Community After the Civil Unrest of April 1992
George Ol Totten (Editor) / Hardcover 1994
Community in Crisis : The Korean American Community
After the Los Angeles Civil Unrest of April 1992
George O. Iii Totten, H. Eric Schockman (Editor) / Paperback 1995
Comparative Study of Korean Immigrants in the United
States : A Typological Approach
Won Moo. Hurh / Paperback 1977
Contemporary American Immigrants : Patterns of
Philippine, Korean, and Chinese Settlement in the United States
Luciano Mangiafico / Hardcover 1988
The Dreams of Two Yi-Min
Margaret K. Pai / Hardcover 1989
Entrepreneurship and Religion : Korean Immigrants in
Houston, Texas
(Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship)
Victoria Hyonchu Kwon / Hardcover 1997
The Golden Mountain : The Autobiography of a Korean
Immigrant, 1895-1960 (Asian American Experience)
Easurk Emsen Charr, Wayne Patterson (Editor) / Hardcover 1995
I Am Korean American (Our American Family)
Robert Kim, Ruth Turk / Library Binding 1998
If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun
Marie G. Lee / Turtleback 1995
Immigrant Entrepreneurs : Koreans in Los Angeles,
1965-1982
Ivan Light, Edna Bonacich / Hardcover 1988
Korean Americans (Cultures of America)
Lauren Lee / Library Binding 1995
The Korean Americans (New
Americans (Westport, Conn.)
Won Moo Hurh / Hardcover 1998
The Korean Americans (New Americans Series) Ann
Hagen Griffiths / Hardcover 1992
Korean Immigrants in America : A Structural Analysis
of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation
Won Moo Hurh, Kwang Chung Kim / Hardcover 1984
Koreans in America
Library Binding 1992
The Koreans in America (In America Series)
Wayne Patterson, Hyung-Chan Kim / Paperback 1993
Koreans in America (In America Series)
Wayne Patterson, Hyung-Chan Kim / Library Binding 1992
Man Sie : The Making of a Korean American
Peter Hyun / Hardcover 1986
Native Speaker
Hardcover 1995
Necessary Roughness
Marie G. Lee / Turtleback 1998
New Cat
Yangsook Choi / Paperback 1998
Plantation Child and Other Stories
Eve Begley Kiehm, Christine Joy Pratt (Illustrator) / Hardcover 1995
Quiet Odyssey
Paperback 1990
Song Lee in Room 2B
Suzy Kline / Turtleback 1995
Stella : On the Edge of Popularity
Lauren Lee / Hardcover 1994
Study of the Korean Church and Her People in Chicago
Sangho J. Kim / Paperback 1975
The Trip Back Home
Janet S. Wong, Bo Jia (Illustrator) / Hardcover 1999
Youn Hee & Me
C.S. Adler / Turtleback 1995
Acculturation of Korean residents in Georgia
Don Chang Lee
Asians in America
H.Brett Melendy 1981
Asians in America : Filipinos, Koreans, and East
Indians
Howard Brett Melendy 1977
The Buddy Trap
Sheri Cooper Sinykin 1991
The Case of the Mystery Mark (The Nicki Holland
Mysteries)
Angela Elwell Hunt 1991
The Case of the Mystery Mark (The Nicki Holland Mysteries,
No 1)
Angela Elwell Hunt 1993
Three Week Timeline on South Korea
Day 1:
Introduction to South Korea. Watch
video on economy and discuss.
Identify products found in households that are made in South Korea.
Day 2: Present
products to class. Use Venn
diagram on economy. Complete
treasure hunt using Internet.
Day 3: Discuss
treasure hunt. Make baseball cards
and present to class.
Day 4: Introduce
government in South Korea. Read
handout on North and South Korea’s government. Discuss and share with the class.
Day 5: Internet
research to prepare for debate on whether North and South Korea should unite.
Day 6: Have
student’s debate and vote on if North and South should unite as one country.
Day 7:
Introduce Food. Have students
compose Crostic poem. Put poems on
bulletin board.
Day 8: Make
Kimchi’s pot with given ingredients.
Have students complete worksheet on Korean food.
Day 9: Eat
Kimchi pot food. Color Kimchi pot
and place on bulletin board.
Day 10:
Introduce Korean music and watch video.
Students will listen to recordings and look at pictures of music and
instruments and discuss the differences.
Day 11: Use
Internet to search pictures of music and instruments. Put bulletin board together. Use body movements to interpret music.
Day 12:
Students will learn about five traditional music instruments. Students will create an instrument.
Day 13:
Introduce religion. Students will
search in teams about an assigned religion.
Day 14: Create
presentation by comparing and contrasting religions between two teams and show
using role paper.
Day 15: Finish presentations. Reflect on the Korean culture that was discussed during the three weeks. Present the items that students brought in relating to Korean culture. Use items to celebrate the culture.
Content
Standards covered in Unit:
Social Studies
*Standard
I- Historical Perspective
*Standard II-
Geographic Perspective
Standard II.1 -All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, and settlements.
Standard II.2 -All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of ecosystems, resources, human adaptation, environmental impact, and the interrelationships among them.
Standard II.4 –All students will describe and compare characteristics of ecosystems, states, regions, countries, major world regions, and patterns and explain the processes that created them.
*Strand III-
Civic Perspective
Standard III.3 -All students will understand how the world is organized politically, the formation of American foreign policy and the roles the United States plays in the international arena.
*Standard
V- Inquiry
Standard V.1 -All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets, and other sources,
organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts, and time lines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information.
Standard V.2 - All students will conduct investigations by formulating a clear statement of a question, gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypotheses, reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology.
Standard
VI- Public Discourse and Decision Making
Standard VI.2 -All students will engage their peers in constructive conversation about matters of public concern by clarifying issues, considering opposing views, applying democratic values, anticipating consequences, and working toward making decisions.
Standard
VII-Responsible Personal Conduct
Standard VII.1 -All students will consider the effects of an individual’s actions on other people, how one acts in accordance with the rule of law, and how one acts in a virtuous and ethically responsible way as a member of society.
Language Arts
*Meaning
And Communication
Standard 2 –All
students will demonstrate the ability to write clear and grammatically correct
sentences, paragraphs, and compositions.
*Inquiry
And Research
Standard 11 –All
students will define and investigate important issues and problems using a
variety of resources, including technology, to explore and create texts.
Science
Standard
II- Ecosystems
Standard
III.5 -All student will analyze how humans and the environment interact
Goals/Outcomes
The reason we chose our unit to be on
South Korea is because it is a nation that we felt the students may be less
familiar compared to other countries in the world due to its location and
culture.
·
To become familiar
with another culture
·
To understand
connections between Korea and United States
·
To see
similarities and differences of a different culture
·
To appreciate diversity
in the world
Field Trip
Brooklyn Children's Museum
145 Brooklyn Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11213
(718) 735 4400 • (718) 735 4440 groups
Providing a great variety of interactive exhibitions and programs which draw upon issues relevant to the interests of its visitors, the Brooklyn Children's Museum is a wonderful place for a day with the family and for teachers with their students. This is the world's first museum for young people. Programs and exhibits are based on a remarkable collection of 20,000 cultural artifacts and natural history specimens, live plants and animals, and award-winning exhibitions.
Workshops and Special Events are offered to families and the general public. Call the Museum for a calendar.
School Groups from grades Pre-K to 12 can participate in programs that enrich and supplement the New York State curriculum. Some examples of School Programs: The Mysteries of Things for grades 3 - 12 explores cultural artifacts from around the world, unlocking their hidden secrets and teaching the special meanings people give to objects. Night Journeys for grades 2 - 8 introduces the world of sleep and dreams, unveiling the dream experience as seen by various cultures. Ready, Set, Grow! for Pre-K and grade 1 teaches children about nutrition, health, and caring for the earth.
All programs are tailored to their age groups. They are fun, interesting and, obviously, educational. Groups are limited to 35 students, 25 for Pre-K through grade 1.
Other programs and resources specific to the interests of local schools are also available.
Hours:
Wednesday - Friday 2 - 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am - 5pm.
Admission:
$4.00 per person.
Discounts available for school groups.
Group Reservations: At least 6 weeks in advance advised. Call between 10am and 5pm for an appointment.
Lunch: Park behind Museum available for picnics.
Handicapped: Accessible. Also special aids for hearing impaired. Call (718) 735 4402.
Directions: Triboro Bridge to Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (I-278) west, into Brooklyn to exit for Atlantic Ave. Take Atlantic Ave. to Brooklyn Ave., turn right and go 4 blocks to museum.
