Teaching unit: "Let's become explorers"
In this section of the web, you will find the whole planning and materials of my teaching unit.
Student's grade is 3rd grade and teaching areas are English and Social and Natural sciences.
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In this teaching sequence, students will investigate invertebrates and will discover their importance. The xplanation of the teaching unit is that an explorer (Katherine Jones) is writing a book about invertebrates and she asks students to help her in order to finish all the reports.
To be able to do this she uses a diary to write down all her discoveries (curiosities, characteristics of the animals...). She asks students to help her gather more data about the arthropods in an innovative and visual way. She suggests creating some posters with Crello. These will be sent to her by email.
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The driving question is: "What do you know about invertebrates?" and the final product are posters.
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Students level of English is A1.
Students are able to interact in a very simple way (what his/her name is, where they live, daily vocabulary…). Regarding listening, students are able to understand clear instructions in English and recognize basic structures. Regarding reading, students can understand simple texts with some difficult expressions.
Regarding spoken interaction, students can use simple sentences with some language support and they can describe and use simple vocabulary and structures previously worked on. Regarding writing, students can write simple sentences, being able to write more complicated ones with language support and help.
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Hereunder, you will find the learning objectives and the assessment criteria of the teaching unit.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To refresh the have got structure
To use the language structures learnt in class
To acquire invertebrate vocabulary
To distinguish the types of invertebrates
To know the characteristics of the different groups of arthropods
To work cooperatively
To experiment with an innovative tool
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
To use the grammatical structure in the correct context (reading, writing and orally)
To recognise the structure (reading
To use the structures orally using or not language support
To recognise and use the vocabulary
To identify the characteristics of each group (where they live, what type of protection they have…)
To identify the characteristics of each group (habitat, parts of the body, curiosities…)
To accept others’ ideas with respect, being able to have a simple conversation on the topic.
To make contributions to the group
To accept the decisions made by the group
To express their own opinion
To be willing to participate in the activities carried out in class
To know how to manage the innovative tool autonomously
To use the main tools of the program (different types of texts, how to insert an image, how to change colours…)