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Unit's title
Heal the world
Level
Third grade of Primary Education
Also fourth grade and Third cycle of
Primary Education
Subjects
Science and English
Objectives
The main objectives
for doing this activity with the students
are:
- To
promote the necessity and importance of taking care of the
environment, resources and recycling.
- To
be familiarized with the school´s new technology.
- To
learn how to use the web as a great source of information.
- To
appreciate the advantages of using the web
- To
learn how to work in groups.
- To
appreciate the final group product.
The
t-Process
This
lesson is clearly organized into
four parts:
1.
The first part involves Science lessons. Students
will learn all the concepts we will be dealing with in their own
native language. This topic will last two weeks, one period of class
each day.
2.
It will be a multidisciplinary task as it also
includes English classes. Students will learn the vocabulary and
structures they will need to deal with the topic. This part
will take at least one month of classes as there is only two
sessions of English a week.
3.
For the computer part, we will use five sessions to
complete the task. In the first session, the class will be
introduced to the use of webquests and the guidelines for the
project. It will be necessary to have one computer per student and
the teacher will guide the process. Students will also be helped by
using dictionaries (the use of dictionaries has been clarified
beforehand).
4.
Creation of posters. Students will share all the
information they have already collected and they will collaborate by
making decisions regarding the most important issues.
Variations
The
lesson could be modified having a bilingual webquest which will
facilitate the understanding to our students.
The lesson also might be carried out in a different
situation, for example, followed by an oral presentation.
Resources
Needed
In
order to implement this lesson we will be using:
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Classbooks: Conocimiento del Medio 3º -
Anaya
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Spanish-English Dictionaries
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School web page with the Webquest link
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Reference material in the classroom or in the school library
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Resources they bring from home
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Videos about the environment
We
will use web resources as well as books to find the information:
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My school web page.
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The Know zone.
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Environmental Protection Agency (US).
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Smog City.
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Clean water program.
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Wikipedia.
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Water Education Foundation.
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DNR, Kids web.
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Planet Pals.
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Kids' Planet.
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Endangeres Species.
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Idaho Public Television.
It would be ideal if the Science and English teacher
work together to support the activity while doing the computer
search.
Also Science and English teachers might
coordinate to deal with the topic (lectures, lesson plan, etc).
Finally a field trip to "Las Marismas del Odiel" is designed in as a
part of the lesson.
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