The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?
Frame(ELA) Why do you think people plant gardens? What is their reason or motivation for doing all the work it takes to plan, plant, care for, and finally harvest what has grown in the garden?
Focus (ELA) Why do the people in this neighborhood plant and care for vegetables in their community garden?
Follow Up (ELA) If you were to plan a garden, what kind would it be—flowers, vegetables, fruits? Discuss what you would want to grow and why you selected what you did. Explain two or three reasons why you would be motivated to plan the type of garden you did.
Frame (SS) We all belong to many different kinds of groups. What groups do you belong to? What do you have in common with the people in this group (i.e., classroom, group of friends, neighborhood)?
Focus (SS) How are the people in this community unified? What brings them together and how does it bring them together?
Follow Up (SS) People are unified by values, practices, and traditions. Discuss how your values, practices, and traditions make you a member of different groups. For example, what values, practices, and traditions identify you as a member of your family?