Concept development Model

I am so excited about the results of the concept development model lesson. The concept that I taught was traditions. As the groups worked, I realized that they were all on task and they were laughing and talking about the past.

After the students had all finished catagorizing, I posed the question: "How did doing this activity make you feel? They said it made them feel happy because they liked working with friends. Some said it made them remember how they did things in their own family. When I ask them why traditions were needed in any culture whether it be Mexican culture, American culture, or any other group of people. The result was that for the first time they really understood the Hispanic culture is not just something we talk about, but that it involves real people that in many ways are just like us.