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.

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