sábado, 29 de octubre de 2016

Learning the lifecycle of a caterpillar and revision of vocabulary: online activity Educaplay


Here are some examples of online activities where students reinforce their knowledge about the Unit (vocabulary and the lifecycle of a caterpillar) :

https://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/2662356/find_the_picture.htm

https://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/2662361/group_of_words.htm

https://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/2662345/word_search.htm







Attention to diversity.


I also have designed activies for attention to diversity:

Form words with wooden pegs.



Make a puzzle.


Dominoes game.


Make a cube game.




Example of Tasks and Activities


Here you got some examples of tasks and activities for the Unit:

Post-listening activity.

After telling the story, students will be organized in groups of three students. Each group will be given a worksheet with pictures of the story in random order and sentences in strips of paper. Students can check the book if they need some help. There is also a model in the blackboard. Students will have to match the stripes of paper with each picture. Then, they will put the pictures in order in the blackboard according to the days of the week. Finally, the students will read the vocabulary they know and the vocabulary they have learnt using appropriate intonation. While the students are doing the activity, I will go round the class monitoring and guiding them.

Timing: 20 minutes.
Groups of three students

Practice activity. Fill in the gaps.

I will give the students a worksheet with drawings and the song´s lyrics. They fill in the gap with the right word while listening to the song. Each gap starts with the initial letter of the word. This activity will reinforce the practice of the written form. The students also have a model of the vocabulary (word cards) in a corner in the classroom.

Timing: 15 minutes.

Individual work

Worksheet with drawings and the song´s lyrics. Flashcards and word cards


Presentation activity. Colour, cut and punch a hole. 

The students have to retell the story. First, I give them patterns of different food that appear in the story. They have to reorder, colour, cut and punch a hole according to the story. This activity will reinforce the vocabulary and grammatical structures while they are creating an alternative version of the book.

Timing: 10 minutes.

Small groups


Warm-up activity. 

The students are divided in groups of three students in each group. I give them cards of food that are repeated twice. They place them face down and try to find the pairs of cards that are the same. To complete the task they have to pronounce the vocabulary while guessing the cards.

Timing: 15 minutes.

Groups of three students

memory game (cards with pictures of food)



Evaluation (criteria and instruments)


Specific assessment criteria:

1. He/she recognizes and reproduces vocabulary related to food.
2. He/she gets the gist of the very hungry caterpillar story.
3. He/she sequences the events of a story.
4. He/she identifies and reproduces the pronunciation of English words.
5. He/she uses the computer to complete several tasks and to reinforce the vocabulary.
6. He/she identifies and lists the days of the week.
7. He/she creates a mini-book and the life cycle of a butterfly.
8. He/she values the importance of healthy eating habits.
9. He/she values the importance of recycled materials to make arts and crafts.
10. He/she cooperates in groups showing a positive attitude.

In the evaluation process we will assess if the students have reached the objectives and if they have acquired the contents set for this didactic unit. Evaluation will be continuous along the teaching and learning process.
The students will be evaluated at the end of every lesson and they must achieve an overall minimum rate of 50% for all the competences completed and attempted.  We will use different assessment tools to evaluate the students according to the following chart:



Key Competences

In this particular didactic unit, the seven key competences will be developed:

Linguistic competence by becoming familiarized with the spelling and the pronunciation of some words, by learning vocabulary about food and the days of the week, by participating in classroom communicative situations using simple grammatical structures, by expressing likes and dislikes and by developing knowledge related to their own experience (orally and written).

Mathematical competence and basic competence in science and technology by using logical thinking to solve communication problems, by interpreting information from charts, by manipulating a variety of objects (food), by counting, classifying and matching food with its quantity, by completing series and ordering sequences, by deducing the meaning of new lexical items from context, by comparing the size of objects and by developing respectful attitudes towards oneself and others.

Digital competence by learning the possibilities that Internet offers to consolidate the knowledge of the lifecycle of a caterpillar, by classifying elements in accordance with the information obtained from audiovisual materials and by using a variety of information sources (stories, computer resources…).

Learning to learn competence by applying strategies to search information from the book, by classifying the sequences of the story, by making autonomous decisions when carrying out the tasks and by using materials and resources in an adequate manner.

Social and civic competences by cooperating in group activities, by being respectful with the environment, by showing a tolerant attitude when participating in oral discussions and by acquiring healthy eating habits.

Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship competence by specifying the necessary resources to fulfill an objective, by following efficient actions to complete the tasks and by becoming aware of one´s strengths and weaknesses in the foreign language.

Cultural awareness and expression by using creativity and imagination in the design of the materials, by listening to the story and singing the song, by drawing, painting and making the lifecycle of a caterpillar crafts and by appreciating the value of other students´ work.

Resources / Materials


The materials used in the Unit are divided into:

Audiovisual and computer based materials:

- Audiovisual devices: TV, computer DVD player, overhead projector, digital whiteboard…
- Audiovisuals: cartoons, documentaries, DVD´s, CD´s with music of traditional and modern songs…

Printed materials: flashcards and word cards, “the very hungry caterpillar” book, lyrics with gaps, pictures, presentation cards, dominoes, memory games, shopping list, crosswords, mini-book photocopies, worksheets to reinforce phonetics and grammatical structures, project books, maps, books, magazines, templates, dictionaries…

Websites:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?proxystylesheet=site_search&site=photography&client=site_search&output=xml_no_dtd&getfields=*&requiredfields=description&q=butterflies
www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Lepidoptera/pictures/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY
http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/foodDictionary.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gNaNOWdg8
www.kidsplaypark.com/games/caterpillar/
http://www.turtlediary.com/kindergarten-games/science-games/butterfly-life-cycle.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8sAHQYvVf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMkKH24Ifdw
www.kidzone.ws/animals/butterflypuzzle.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKdwGwOlK8

Other materials:

- A caterpillar puppet.
- Plastic food and supermarket.
- Recycled materials for arts and crafts.
- Wooden pigs.
- Puzzles.

Organization and class distribution / timing


The Organization and class distribution / timing:

The methodology used will guarantee the coherence among the didactic unit. In order to guarantee this coherence a series of frame principles of educational intervention can be extracted and structured around the following axes:
- Starting from students´ level of development: considering the characteristics of the group and their previous knowledge.
- Fostering the construction of meaningful learning and showing the functionality of learning.
- Taking into account students´ s characteristics: the logical, psychological and socio-practical implication of the contents.
- Attract students´ attention in order to promote the transference of learning.
- Encouraging students´ capacity for learning to learn: developing an “effort-based culture” that will favor students´ autonomy.
- Giving impulse to students´ development of mental activity: working in continuous participation with activities regarding using previous ideas, participating in debates…
- Fostering communication and social interaction: developing the cognitive and socialization capacity has become increasingly important.

As an example:


Tables and chairs space: Depending on the activity, I will organize the tables in different ways, if the activity need an individual work, the tables will be separated; if the activity is in pairs, I will organize the tables in pairs; if the activity need a whole group work, we will organize the tables like a “U”, I will be in the middle of the “U” and when they participate in the class, all their classmates will be able to see their gestures, their materials, and all the students will be at the same distance from the teacher.

Blackboard and whiteboard: they are very important in the classroom, so they have to be in a very visible space, and it is in front of the “U”.

Recycling corner: in their classroom, students will have a corner with three different bins: blue bin (paper), yellow bin (plastic and bricks) and green bin (organic rubbish).

Reading corner: the reading corner is a big cardboard with a table in which appears their names with white cells where they have to write the books they will read in English.

Projects corner: this corner is bigger, each child will have a cardboard on the wall, and during the unit students have to complete it with vocabulary learnt and arts and crafts they make.

Lesson time: March (End of the Second Term- Spring time)- 7 different sessions of 45 minutes each.

Contextual (cultural) element and Cognitive (thinking) processes

The Contextual (cultural) element are:

-Knowledge about food in English speaking countries.
-Healthy eating habits around the globe.

And the Cognitive (thinking) processes are:

-Knowing the vocabulary of the unit and basic grammatical structures.
-Describing the life cycle of a Caterpillar.
-Identifying vocabulary related to the caterpillar and food.
-Understanding the global sense of a story.
-Distinguishing between healthy and non healthy eating habits.
-Associating images and words.
-Applying specific strategies to internalize the vocabulary within the unit.
-Solving memory games.
-Completing crosswords and puzzles.
-Analyzing information in the Internet.
-Ordering sequences in a story.
-Explaining meanings.
-Assessing their own work.
-Predicting information while watching a documentary.
-Justifying answers while been asked.
-Creating visual patterns following a model.
-Developing communicative skills while role-play.





Language Content / Communication: vocabulary and grammar (and pronunciation )


In the unit the vocabulary used is:

Revision: numbers from 1 to 9 and colours.
New vocabulary: the days of the week, vocabulary related to food according to the story (cheese, cake, salami, ice-cream…) and vocabulary related to the life cycle of the caterpillar (egg, caterpillar, cocoon and butterfly).
Nouns: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, cheese, cake, salami, ice-cream, caterpillar, egg, cocoon, butterfly.
Verbs: be, eat, drink, walk, jump, start, finish.
Adjectives: yellow, red, blue, green, brown, purple, black, white, orange, bug, small, fat, slim, happy, sad.
Adverbs: always, never.
Prepositions: in, on, at.


And the grammar:

o Introduction present simple affirmative and negative sentences: I like/ I don´t like. Simple structures. Eg: I like cheese.
o Introduction verb to be affirmative sentences: simple descriptions.

Pronunciation:

o Differentiation between /ai/ sound (five, ice-cream…) and /i/ sound (six, lollipop…).
o Practice of stress and intonation while singing.
o Clear articulation of English words and letters.

Learning outcomes / Evaluation criteria, Subject Content, Discourse type and Language skills.


The  Learning outcomes / Evaluation criteria for the Unit are:

1. To understand the global sense of a story.
2. To identify vocabulary related to food.
3. To identify and list the days of the week, both in oral and written manner.
4. To sequence events of a story.
5. To learn the life cycle of a butterfly.
6. To participate in brief communicative situations.
7. To value the importance of healthy eating habits and the care of the environment.
8. To use and value the importance of recycled materials to make arts and crafts.
9. To familiarize students with information and communication technology to expand and reinforce the vocabulary of the unit.
10. To cooperate in groups showing a tolerant attitude.

The Subject Content are:

- The life cycle of a caterpillar.
- Healthy food.
- Colours and numbers.
- The days of the week.

Discourse type:

o Description. Students describe the life cycle of the caterpillar in the story.

Language skills:

o Listening: Getting the gist of a story. Listening to the story. Expression of likes and dislikes.
o Speaking: Participation in brief and contextualized oral exchanges.
o Reading: Extracting global information from the story. Reading for the main idea.
o Writing: Sequence of events. Learning the life cycle of a caterpillar.


CLIL UNIT: THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR



Subject:   Natural Science
Teacher:    María Elena Augusto
Title of the Unit :  “The life cycle of a caterpillar”      
Course: 1st Grade Primary Education    



Materiales utilizados y diseñados para la unidad


Los distintos materiales que he utilizado y elaborado para mi unidad didáctica “The life cycle of a Caterpillar”, son los siguientes:

- Para introducir el tema:
o Un peluche de una oruga.





o Juguetes de plástico de diferentes tipos de comida.




o Fotografías de orugas y mariposas reales.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?proxystylesheet=site_search&site=photography&client=site_search&output=xml_no_dtd&getfields=*&requiredfields=description&q=butterflies

o Flashcards de comida elaboradas o también hay fichas de vocabulario relacionado con la unidad, en la que los alumnos pueden aprender y ver fotos reales de orugas y su ciclo vital.

www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Lepidoptera/pictures/


  o Cuento “The very hungry Caterpillar”. Podemos usar directamente el libro o ver una historia animada en Internet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY
o Fichas sobre el cuento.
 
- Para practicar el vocabulario y las estructuras:


o Diccionarios con imágenes para niños:

http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/foodDictionary.htm

o Flashcards y wordcards.
 
o CD con la canción de la unidad o se puede también ver en Internet. Además de la ficha para trabajar la letra de la canción.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gNaNOWdg8


o Fichas de fonética y estructuras básicas.

- Para entender el vocabulario y contenido:
o Flashcards y wordcards.
   
o Juego interactivo en el que los alumnos aprenden a dar de comer a una oruga.

www.kidsplaypark.com/games/caterpillar/

o Plantillas modelo del cuento leído.

o Mini-book con pegatinas.



- Para comprender y analizar:
o Flashcards.

o Esquema visual con distintos tipos de imágenes (mapa de ideas).



 
o Juego de adivinanza en la que los alumnos tienen que adivinar qué fruta o comida come la oruga.

www.thekidzpage.com/freekidsgames/games/sliders/slidingpuzzle0008.html


o Juego de memoria.
 

- Para ampliar, repasar el contenido:

o Juego en el ordenador donde repasan y refuerzan lo aprendido a lo largo de la unidad. También tienen un enlace para repasar en caso de duda.

http://www.turtlediary.com/kindergarten-games/science-games/butterfly-life-cycle.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8sAHQYvVf0

o Fichas con distintas imágenes relacionadas con el ciclo de la oruga que tienen que ordenar, para ello pueden hacer uso de los recursos del ordenador de clase.



- Para profundizar e investigar:

o Modelo de proyecto de la oruga de la clase, en la que tienen unos patrones similares y tienen que construir otro cuento a partir del modelo dado.

o Un menú escolar donde hay otro tipo de alimentos para fomentar los hábitos saludables. Los alumnos tienen que identificar y colorear aquellos alimentos que sean saludables.

o Rimas relacionadas con comida.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMkKH24Ifdw

o Fichas con crucigramas y dibujos con actividades de ampliación.

o Juego de role-play.
 
o La lista de la compra en el supermercado.



- Para desarrollar y producir:

o Uso de materiales reciclados para que los alumnos creen su propia oruga.

o Uso de materiales reciclados y de manualidades para que los alumnos escenifiquen el ciclo vital de la oruga.

- Además, he incluido algunos materiales para trabajar con alumnos de atención a la diversidad:

o Formamos palabras con pinzas de madera.

o Hacer un puzle relacionado con el tema de la unidad. Para aquellos alumnos que muestren menos dificultad tienen la posibilidad de hacer un puzle interactivo online.

www.kidzone.ws/animals/butterflypuzzle.htm

o Juego de dominó.

o Ver un video “The Caterpillar puppet show”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKdwGwOlK8

o Hacer una manualidad con un cubo.




Un saludo.

Recurso : Educaplay


Buenos días,



Estos son algunas de las actividades que he elaborado con Educaplay:

https://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/2662356/find_the_picture.htm

https://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/2662361/group_of_words.htm

https://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/2662345/word_search.htm

Me ha ayudado mucho usar este recurso en clase porque a mis alumnos les ha encantado!!!

Hay una gran variedad de actividades:



Un saludo

domingo, 2 de octubre de 2016

Recomienda algún recurso AICLE

Buenas tardes, uno de los recursos que he encontrado está en el siguiente enlace:

https://lenguasymas.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/clil-activities-and-materials/

Lo recomiendo porque:

- Hay muchísimas actividades y materiales para trabajar CLIL.

- También hay información acerca de qué es CLIL y cómo trabajarlo en el aula.

- Está organizado por áreas y por niveles educativos.

Espero que a algunos os sirva!

Un saludo.

Symbaloo Recursos Seleccionados: Escritorio Virtual AICLE


Esta es una de las tareas del segundo bloque: organizar y seleccionar recursos relacionados con la unidad que vamos a trabajar usando Symbaloo.

El enlace es el siguiente: http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/aicle2016elenaaugusto

Los recursos que he seleccionado hacen referencia a:


  • - Metodología AICLE /CLIL en términos generales.
  • - Artículos de AICLE/CLIL sobre los usos en el aula.
  • - Vídeos de sesiones CLIL con alumnos de Educación Primaria.
  • - Diversos enlaces a blogs muy interesantes con ejemplos sobre CLIL en el aula.
  • - Ejemplos de unidades didácticas de AICLE/CLIL en el aula.
  • - Unidades didácticas relacionadas con el área de ciencias naturales en Educación Primaria.


La mayoría de los recursos los he seleccionado de Procomún, aunque otros recursos los he encontrado en distintas páginas web.

Todos los recursos los he tenido en cuenta para el desarrollo de mi propia unidad didáctica que está relacionada con el área de ciencias naturales en un centro bilingüe para alumnos del primer curso de educación primaria.

Un saludo.

Aprendiendo a manejar Symbaloo

YA estoy manos a la obra con la siguiente tarea: crear webmix con Symbaloo!  A ver cuántos recursos soy capaz de recopilar...

Enlace Unidad "The world of plants"

http://procomun.educalab.es/es/ode/view/1427537028785