The Intended Audience
The intended audience consists of third-grade students of Yiddish descent. Since the students were raised in poverty, dealing with them is difficult. They don't speak English, and their upbringing has shielded them from the outside world's happenings. Additionally, they feel cut off from being Americans.
The Lesson's Focus: Recycling
Recycling is the lesson's focus because it is one of the key environmental protection and conservation strategies. Teaching kids the value of recycling, according to Farmer (2007), teaches them how to safeguard the environment from pollution brought on by people leaving plastic bottles, cans, and glass bottles lying around. The aim, therefore, is to inform the children of the various recyclable items that have to be sorted during disposal.
Assessment Approaches
The assessment approaches involved putting the students in the discussion group and moving around to listen to the way they are sharing their opinions and ideas about what they know about environmental protection and in particular recycling. Their ability to demonstrate individual conception of the topic was assessed through checking their written definition about the topic on a worksheet as well as their ability to successfully complete their assigned homework. On the other hand, there were some children who had difficulty understanding the topic. In order to help them, an engagement was brought to the personal level where they were helped to contract sentences that elaborates the contents of the topic.
Teaching Children of Different Backgrounds
Having taken the assessment, it was derived that teaching children about new ideas is possible irrespective of their backgrounds. Children are able to learn new ideas if given the right tools, support, and motivation (Smyth, 2013). Therefore, for future references to the lessons derived from the assessment, teaching children of the population would take into account the need to expose the children to second languages of their interests.
References
Farmer, A. (2007). Handbook of environmental protection and enforcement: Principles and practice. London: Earthscan.
Smyth, D. (2013). Person-centred therapy with children and young people. Los Angeles: SAGE.
