A WORLD TO EXPLORE: LANDSCAPES IN OUR EARTH.
This is a new unit for work in class, which it will become
from pupil of first grade of primary school into landscape explorers who they
have just studied The Earth unit. So we going to introduce to the pupils in the
study of landscape around the world, our planet. If you want yourself to start
up in this new adventure then you get your rucksack, your explorer hat, open
your eyes and get ready for fun around dreamy places of our planet.
To get it, we will help of different
tools, like books, computers, digital whiteboard (ICT),
pictures and others that you could get. On the other hand, we could discover
some landscapes which we have visited before or have close to home. This job
could be more interesting than we ever thought.
Following, you
will find a list with everything that we will study (Subject Content):
·
Landscape in
our planet.
·
Natural and
artificial landscape.
·
Kinds of
Natural landscapes: Mountain, plain and coastal landscape.
·
Our world.
Looking after our planet.
Also, we students should get the following aims:
·
Knows the
concept of landscape.
·
Contrast the
diversity among the kinds of landscape.
·
Recognize the
features about the landscape: desert, city, mountains and coast.
·
Identify
natural and artificial landscapes.
·
Ask and give
information.
To get them, the students will make activities and tasks
which they are important to create knowledge by themselves. Among these jobs
they will have to make the followings:
·
To work with
landscape vocabulary and listen a song about landscapes and repeat it.
·
Visit web with
images and video of different landscape.
·
To introduce topic using art print (poster)
with several landscapes (desert, city, mountains and coast).
·
Select natural
and artificial landscapes among several landscapes.
·
Draw. Change a
natural landscape into an artificial landscape.
·
Complete
sentence with the words: natural and artificial.
·
Differentiate
several images among mountains, plains and coast landscape.
·
Put stickers on
a coast landscape (island, sea, cliff, rocks and beach).
·
Create a spring
landscape with the following materials: cardboard, coloured paper, scissors and
glue.
·
Interaction
game: make a quiz with questions of multiple choice to task classmates.
·
Recognize and
say the kind of landscape after hearing about their main elements.
·
And a final
task: To recognize and
say the kind of landscape after hearing about their main elements (use
different images).
Activities will be done depending on the development
of the class time, which will always consists, at least, of these parts:
- Warm-up: introduction (explain what we are going to
do), working time (alternating activities on the languages skills), resolutions
the tasks and conclusions.
We will be carried out through two week, in addition
to class work the students will need extra time to investigate and find some
photograph or images about landscape that they visited in the past or nearby
places to home.
As example about the resources, I show you some of
them:
·
Poster to
introduction the unit. We will add a chant too.
·
To
introduce several language structure and vocabulary, like:
o
Mountains
have peaks and valleys.
o
Plains
are areas of flat land.
o
A
bay is a natural landscape / A harbor is an artificial landscape.
o
On
the (coast), we can find ______, ______ and _______ .
o
There
are cliffs, beaches, rocks and islands.
o
And
others.
·
Work time.
Conversations about kind of landscape, and work about them.
·
Work time. We
change a natural landscape into an artificial landscape.
·
As
part of work, the students will access to interactive task for consolidate the
contents and build their own knowledge.
·
In
the last session, finally every students should identify all kinds of
landscape, so they recognize the landscape and their main elements of the different
images (suggestion on task and supplied for themselves).
At last, I
can only wish you good trip in this adventure about the landscapes in our
planet.
Como proyecto final, esta misma tarde entregué un artefacto digital, utilizando para ello la aplicación PowToon. La finalidad de la tarea es describir mi recorrido por el curso.
