2014 Moon Festival LESSON TEMPLATE
Teacher: Yu hua Chang, Yuyu Bogdan, Huali Chang, Lusi Hong
Lesson Focus
Moon Festival
Time Suggested
June 17,2014 Tuesday minutes: 20 min
June 18,2014 Wednesday minutes: 20 min
June 19,2014 Thursday minutes: 20 min
June 20,2014 Friday minutes: 20 min
Materials
needed
computer to play the video, construction paper ,
scissors, glue, play-dol, marker, crayon, white
board, poster, toothpicks, paper slips
National
Standard
Standard 2.1 Practice and Perspective: Students
demonstrate an understanding of the
relationship between the practices and
perspectives of the culture studied.
Standard 2.2 Products and Perspectives:
Students demonstrate an understanding of the
relationship between the products and
perspectives of the culture studied.
Standard 4.2 Culture: Students demonstrate
understanding of the concept of culture through
comparisons of the cultures studied and their
own.
Standard 5.1 Beyond the School Setting:
Students use the language both within and
beyond the school setting.
Objectives
Students will be able:
● to say “中秋节/Mid-Autumn Festival ” and “
月饼/Moon Cake”
● to know the date of the Moon festival and
learn how to write the character “中”;
● to know how to celebrate the Moon
Festival;
● to know the legend of the Moon Lady/
Chang E
● to know the legend of the Sun Hunter/ Hou
Yi
● to know the origin of moon cake
● to sing the song: moon. (craft table)
● to make “月饼/Moon Cake”( craft table)
● to understand the differences of the
custom of The Mid-Autumn Festival
● to compare the difference between
American holiday with The Mid-Autumn
Festival
● to say the common language：你好，谢谢
、老师、停
Opening
Warm-up 15 minutes
Routine/Activiti
1. Greet with students by 你好and introduce
es
teacher themselves
2. Introduce classroom rules
3. Students get to know each others by little
practise
4. Build up background information about the
topic of Mid-Autumn Festival
5. Introduce the procedure how to rotate to next
station: learning center
6. Group the students into 4 small groups
Main Learning
Activities
(20 minutes = for each table at same times. )
Station # 1 = The teacher will tell the story of
moon Festival, the origin of Moon Cake, and
the Legends of Hou Yi and Chang E.
Station # 2: Food = The teacher will
demonstrate how to make moon cake and
decorate the moon cake with the character “月”,
which means moon in Chinese.
Station # 3 : Customs= The teacher will teach
moon Festival culture, along with its customs
around the world
Station # 4 : Craft = the dance /change and
houyi.
The teachers will give instructions to students
and help them do hand-made activites. （
different assignments according to the ages）
Station #1/ fact Grade K-2 will watch 3 videos and know “what,
when, who, how is the moon festival and learn
how to say moon cake and Mid Autumn festival
in Chinese
Grade 3-5 will watch 3 videos and know “what,
when, who, how is the moon festival and learn
how to say moon cake and Mid Autumn festival
in Chinese
Grade 6-8 learn will watch 3 videos and know
“what, when, who, how is the moon festival and
learn how to say moon cake and Mid Autumn
festival in Chinese
Station # 2/
food
Grade 9-12 will watch 3 videos and know “what,
when, who, how is the moon festival and learn
how to say moon cake and Mid Autumn festival
in Chinese
Grade K-2 will watch a video and make the
moon cake and learn how to say moon cake in
Chinese
Grade 3-5 learn how to say moon cake in
Chinese and they will watch a video and make
Station # 3/
craft
the moon cake and decorate it with the
character “月”
Grade 6-8 learn how to say moon cake in
Chinese
and they will watch a video and make the moon
Station #4
customs
cake and decorate it with the character “月”
Grade 9-12 learn how to say moon cake in
Chinese and they will watch a video and make
the moon cake and decorate it with the
characters “月饼”
Grade K-2 will draw a picture about moon
festival they learn and sing a song :moon.
Grade 3-5 will draw a picture about moon
festival they learn and sing a song :moon.
Grade 6-9 sing a song :moon.and dance
“change and houyi”
Grade 10-12 sing a song :moon.and dance
“change and houyi”
Grade K-2 will acknowledge the differences
between the Thanksgiving Holiday and MidAutumn festival;
Grade 3-5 will learn the pronunciation about the
Moon festival and the greeting in Chinese
Grade 6-9 will learn how to write the character
in Chinese about “中”
Grade 10-12 will learn the harmony meaning
behind the shape of circle, for example, moon
cake, round table. moon
Closure
7 minutes
1. Present the productions in class
2. The teachers will help students to review the words
and retell the moon festival.
3. Finish the worksheet of current part of the topic of
each learning center
Assessment &
Record Keeping
● Using Learning and Linguistic Objectives and
the Student Can Do Statements as a guide,
how will you keep record of how students
perform?
● The teachers will keep record of how well
students retell the fairy tale of moon Festival,
the students’ class response and their craft
products
● How will you keep track of which students
need special attention in what areas?
● Ask students to retell the fairy tale and keep
record of their performance.
● Worksheets are provided for them to keep
track of what they learnt about each learning
center
Additional
Planning
Decisions
●
What activities might the students take home
or do outside of class to strengthen or extend
their skills?
Post-Lesson
●
What went well and which activities were
Follow-ups
●
●
effective?
What needs more work in the next class/
lesson?
What activities should I do differently next
time?