Students use internet resources to create a cross-curricular, multidisciplinary approach to presenting their name to the world via video, poster and wiki.

1. MY NAME AROUND THE WORLD
A social studies project for grades 2-3

2. BASIC PREMISE
 Students at a Korean International school will find out
what their English name means as well as what their
Korean name means.
 Students will create an acrostic poem incorporating their
name.
 Children will put their name, poem and other supporting
information on a poster.
 Students will also interview their parents, asking them
what motivated them to give them the name they did.
 At the end, pictures of their posters along with their
video/audio interviews will be put onto a wiki to be shared
with the world.
 The entire length of this project will be 4 weeks for Grade
3 students and 6 weeks for Grade 2

3. MEANING OF YOUR NAME
 Grade 2-3 students at a Korean International
school are tasked to find out what their name
means in Korean and what it means in English
 Students are expected to use Internet resources
to find out what their name means in each
language (i.e. baby names databases).
 This will teach the students important information
literacy and research skills.

4. ACROSTIC POEM
 Scaffolding off of a recently completed unit
on adjectives, students will create an acrostic
poem based on their name.
 Creating a cross-curricular link to English class
 Develops the students’ creativity skills

5. CULTURAL ORIGIN AND PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
 Since this will be put onto a wiki that can be accessed
by anyone, it is very important for the students to put
the ethnic background of the name, giving it a cultural
context.
 Also, last names should NEVER appear on the poster.
 The student should also put down a pronunciation
guide for their name, to make it easy for people to
know how say their name accurately.

6. CELEBRITIES/HISTORICAL FIGURES
 Students should research their name and find out if there
are any current celebrities or historical figures that share
their name.
 This will help to further develop the children's’ informational
literacy
 Students should find out their celebrities’ notable
accomplishments and include that on their poster.
 They should include at least one celebrity/historical figure.
 If they cannot find a famous person, they can instead, include
notable or interesting member of their family and any of their
notable accomplishments, though it should be communicated
to the students that this is not preferred.

7. BABY PHOTOS
 Students should include at least 3 photos of
themselves: one as a baby, one as a younger child,
and a recent photo.
 Since these photos will be posted on the internet and
searcable by the general public, students have the
option of drawing pictures of themselves growing up
instead of including photos.
 These photos will help reinforce the connection between
this project and the real world.

8. POSTER
 Students will put all of this information on a
poster, trying to create an eye catching
layout.
 This will help develop their creativity as they try
to create an imaginative poster display.

9. INTERVIEWS WITH MOTHER/FATHER
 Students will interview their parents and ask them 3 questions
about their name and how they came up with it. Some questions
include:
 Why did you give me this name?
 What hopes did you have for me when you gave me this name?
 Does any other member of our family share this name? If so, who?
 What other names did you consider?
 Students will visually record their interviews, edit the resulting
video and submit it as a part of the project.
 This helps raise students’ media literacy as they learn how to work
with basic video editing softward (i.e. Movie Maker) and ICT literacy,
as they work with recording equipment and computers.

10. POSTER PRESENTATION AND PEER REVIEW
 Students will orally present their poster to the
class.
 Students will also show their video interview to
the class as well.
 Students will peer review their classmates’
posters and videos, comprising of 50% of their
final grade. Teacher assessment comprises the
other 50%.
 Giving the project multifaceted assessment.

11. POST TO WIKI
 After the presentation and assessment, the
students will submit their assignment to the
teacher who will post them onto Wikispaces
or PBWorks.
 The teacher will then post a link to the iEARN
collaboration center as well as the teachers
sub-reddit.