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Exploring How Communities Sustain Their Culture

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Exploring How Communities Sustain Their Culture
South

South Elementary School fifth graders in Ms. Rhonda Yost's class spent time talking about how communities sustain their cultures. 

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A young child with dark hair is sitting at a desk in a classroom setting, surrounded by various school supplies and materials.

The students were given time to talk with their desk partners about their thoughts on the topic. 

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They then studied glossary terms for the lesson which included such words as "foreshadow," "generation" and "homeland."

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The students were tasked with coming up with words that started with the root word "gen."

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Ms. Yost asked for volunteers to share some of the words they came up with so she could write them on the board for all of the students to see. 

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Words the students came up with included "generate," "gentle" and "gender."

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A person in a black shirt is writing words like "general", "gender", and "genetics" on a whiteboard.

The students then illustrated two or three of the words and shared their drawings on the projector for the class to see.

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The volunteers talked in detail about their drawings and how they related to the meaning of the root "gen."

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A hand-drawn mind map on a whiteboard, with the central concept "Sustain" and surrounding concepts such as "Help", "Share", "Awareness", and "Needs".

The students then had to create words and drawings using the word "sustain," which they then shared with the class. 

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The final part of the lesson was to write a knowledge statement using the term "natural resource."

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They students up with many different ideas and had another chance to share them with their classmates.

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