Begin by decorating library with pictures, books, lanterns and art work to generate students' curiosity and interest for exploring Chinese New Year's tradition. After being given a mini-lecture on interesting characteristics of the Chinese New Year, students will gain some basic awareness of the Chinese New Year's tradition. Students will be asked to navigate some websites to continue explore more about the unique culture, and will be asked to focus on one website to extract 3 most interesting facts as well. Students will learn how to select, extract, analyze, and present information through this lesson. Motivation activities, such as listening to the music, watching TV, hands on artwork will be ongoing at the beginning, during and the end of the lesson to stimulate, maintain students' curiosities and future enthusiasm in culture learning.

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to: 1. Gain a basic awareness of the Chinese New Year's tradition and recognize the celebration is unique. 2. Explore more information by navigating websites. 3. Describe three characteristics that most interest them. 2. Record their findings on worksheet in both electronic and paper formats. 3. Present results either by written report or artwork.

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LESSON ONE (OF TWO, 45minutes): 1. Preparation: Decorate library with artwork, paper pigeons and lanterns, photos, New Year couplets. 2. Question: When students enter the room, traditional Chinese music (about firecrackers and fireworks) will be playing. Librarian will wear traditional Chinese New Year costume. Let students walk around and watching and talking, then quiet down students, ask them questions: What do you see around you? Are you interested in what you see? Do you want to know more? 3. Mini-Lecture: Explain to the students that these are part of Chinese New Year¡¯s tradition. Tell them that people celebrate the New Year differently. Share the information about the origins of the Chinese New Year, the legend of Nian, the night of the full moon, the lion dancing, the dragon parade, the traditional Chinese foods, art and crafts with children. After lecture, check children for understanding with review questions. Ask the children to draw, or write the key words that they remember from the lecture. 4. Pass around objects: To continue stimulate students curiosity and enthusiasm for learning more about Chinese New Year¡¯s traditions. Explain students the cultures what the collections of Chinese stamps, corns and art works represent. 5. Research: Have students work in pair (classroom teacher will set) to navigate websites that provided to them. Ask students to choose one site to focus on exploring and finding three facts that most interested them. 6. Recording: Ask students to record findings on worksheet (Appendix A) in both electric and paper formats, print out findings and hand in the worksheet to the LMS before they leave. LESSON TWO (OF TWO, 45minutes): 1. Trigger video: Play short trigger video (2 minutes) to refresh students memories of what they learned in the previous class. 2. Information sharing: After viewing the video, have the students work in resigned groups of 3 students (classroom teacher will set) to share and discuss the facts they already discovered. Each group will report discuss result to whole class, LMS will write down the results on the poster board. 3. Information Presenting: Students will prepare to present the findings about Chinese New Year¡¯s tradition in social studies or at a school cultural festival. 4. Hands-on: The last activity is having students to make their own paper lanterns. While passing around color paper, explains students that lantern represents wish of peace, luck and happiness throughout the year. Instruct students to fold and cut paper (see Appendix B for detail procedures) to make lanterns. Help students thread their lanterns and hang them in the room. 5. Follow up: After all the activities have been completed, have the children respond to the following question, "What do you know about the Chinese New Year?" as well as asking students to share stories to their parents, asking students to bring back parents¡¯ feedback notes for evaluating teaching process and future improvement.

1. Evaluate worksheet with contents that students explored. 2. Demonstrate what students learned through class discussion and group presentation. Evaluate the amount of information students shared and accuracy of information students displayed. 3. Gather and evaluate feedback from parents on what students learned and their suggestions for future study.