1.Artifacts

**Francesca's artifacts:** List your artifacts/artifakes: //(Label tangible artifacts with a __T__//.) **1. Ornament (T)** **2. Snowflake (T)** **3. Candy Cane (T)**  A. How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach necessary concepts to students? -I would use three artifacts in relation to our lesson we are doing on holidays- specifically Christmas and Hanukkah. I would use these items to portray different entities of Christmas to the students. I would use the ornament when explaining the idea and history of people putting Christmas trees in their home and decorating them. Candy canes are also frequently used in association with the December holiday season. We could use the candy canes to decorate our own class tree. I might also then have my students make their own ornaments as a classroom activity (they would also be able to make Hanukkah and different types of related ornaments). I would use the snowflake to show that both of these holidays take place during December-which usually means snow and cold weather. This would help introduce calendar concepts and weather.  B. How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? //Note one example using a book or website.// -I chose all of these different resources because I believe they can be used to educate my students while enticing them at the same time. I think that the holidays are and enjoyable and happy subject to learn about- especially when you use resources like northpole.com where students can become interactive with the learning. It is a great tool to use on the IWB and would really get the class involved. I think if the students get to experience the lessons hands-on they will be motivated to take part in the learning process. I also really liked using pop-up picture books, especially “The Very Smiley Snowman”, because it brings in an extra element to entice students and make them want to focus on the books. I would like to think a combination of all three different resource areas could be used to make our unit plan more appealing to the students and really incorporate different standards and goals to achieve. Our goal is to always create the best and most effective learning environment. These resources meet the need of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners, I think that a variety of good resources are key in achieving this.

**Kristi's Artifacts:** List your artifacts/artifakes: //(Label tangible artifacts with a __T__//.)
 * 1. Snowman (T) **
 * 2. Christmas Tree (T) **
 * 3. Dreidel (T) **

A. How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach necessary concepts to students?
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">-The Christmas tree and snowman will both be used when talking about Christmas. The snowman will go along with the book //Snow// when talking about weather. The Christmas tree will be used to talk about the Christmas traditions. The dreidel will be used when talking about Hanukkah and how it is celebrated. Each of these objects can be made by the students during the arts and crafts center.

====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">B. How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? //Note one example using a book or website.// ==== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">//-// The book, Its Christmas, David!, is great to introduce Christmas and some of the things that happen right before and on Christmas day. Students will enjoy reading the book because those that celebrate will be able to relate to it and those that don't will learn a lot about what goes on during Christmas time.The illustrations in this book are very good and will give the children a better idea about Christmas and the different traditions.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Brittany's Artifacts:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">List your artifacts/artifakes: //(Label tangible artifacts with a __T__.)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Stocking (T) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">2. Ornament (T) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Picture of family celebrating Hanukkah **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">A. How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach necessary concepts to students? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- The stocking and ornament can be used to aid in students prior knowledge and as an anticipatory set for Christmas. Both could also be used for our pre and post assessments. One of the concepts that must be taught is how holidays are celebrated within different cultures and both of these are symbolic and have to do with the Christmas holiday. The picture of the family celebrating Hanukkah will be used to introduce this holiday and how it centers around family. It will be one of three photos that will be shown to students including a Christmas photo and a Kwanzaa photo. All three photos will help to visualize for the students that holidays are important to families of all different cultures.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">B. How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? //Note one example using a book or website.// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">-All of the resources compiled here will definitely entice, motivate and educate our students! They are enticing because most likely students will have prior knowledge about at least one of the artifacts. They will feel intrigued because the objects are tangible, and the students will be motivated because they will want to know more about the objects. Each one of these artifacts will help to educate our students because they will be paired with wonderful lesson plans that go right along with the NGSSS. The book, Jingle Bugs by: David A. Carter, is great to use as an anticipatory set to get students geared up for their lesson on Christmas! It has wonderful pop ups and surprises all through the story to keep students motivated and listening. It also gives a great overview of Christmas traditions and celebrations that we will be teacher our students throughout the unit.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">List your artifacts/artifakes: //(Label tangiable artifacts with a __T__.)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Amanda's Artifacts: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Santa Hat (T) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">2. Snow covered Tree (T) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Picutres of 2 traditions in Germany during Christmas **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">A. How could these artifacts be used to introduce or teach nexessary concepts to students? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- The srtifacts that I have chosen to use are from 3 different perspectives. One of which is a piece of clothing, a physical visual, and another visual that shows traditions. Each piece can be used when the topic is being brought up like clothing during Christmas, what environment looks like during December or what other countries do during this time. My artifacts hit on a lot of themes!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">B. How could the resources compiled here be used in your unit plan to entice, motivate, and educate your students? //Note one example using a book or website.// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">//-// All of my artifacts hold a lot of information and are great resources to learn from. I have chosen a variety of themes and topics because it gives the students a more broad idea of what Christmas is like for other countries and in turn may trigger them to learning more. For my websites I chose a website that has scavenger hunts which is a fun way for students to learn. In teh scavenger hunt it requires students to do research to answer questions about Christmas around the world. I have used a variety of pictures, resouces, information, pop-up books and physical things to show Christmas around the world.