WELINA'S WORLDNani Pai
Grade 4-6
WELINA'S WORLD
Purpose: Students can identify where they live (neighborhood/district), identify their feelings for their neighborhood/ district and compar/contrast their district with another district.
Focus Question: How do people perceive places and regions?
Geographic Standards: The geographically informed person knows and understands . . .
1. How to analyze the Spatial Organization of People, Places and Environments on Earth's Surface
2. That people create regions to interpret earth's complexity.
3. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Student Objectives: Students will be able to:
1. Define a region (district) using physical criteria
2. Analyze songs/chants to make inferences about how people feel about a region
3. Locate a region on a map
4. Measure distance between two regions using the map scale
Geographic Skills/Thinking Skills
1. Locate region on a map
2. Identify the latitude and longitude of that region
3. Measure the distance between two regions using a map scale
4. Inference attitudes about a region by examining songs/chants about the region
Parts of the Lesson Can Be Used With Units On: The Ahupua`a, Poetry, Measurement
Procedure
1. Let your students know that they will be working on a geography project that will be multi-layered/go over components of the project.
2. Have students draw a picture of themselves on the top portion of a plain sheet of paper and write 3-4 sentences on the bottom portion that tells a little about them (biographical information like how many siblings they have, what they like to do, favorite foods, etc.)
3. Have students draw a picture of their home and write a sentence on the bottom of the page that gives their home address.
4. Have your students draw their neighborhood.
5. Review the districts on the island where you live.
6. Identify the districts that your students come from (most DOE students will come from the area near your school but some of them may be on GEs).
7. Have your students draw their neighborhood in relation to their district.
8. Give them a map of your island and have them locate the town they live in and identify the latitudinal and longitudinal lines of that town on their map. They will need to write this information on the bottom of the page.
9. Give them a map of the state of Hawai`i and ask them to locate their island. Using the wall map of the world, have them pick another region/location and measure the distance from their island to that location using the map scale. Write the information on the bottom of their state of Hawai`i map.
10. Read excerpts from "Home" and "Fire in the Sun" about homes/places of various sorts. (You may already have other examples of poems that talk about homes/places that you could use instead).
11) Have students compose a poem about where they live.