martes, 25 de abril de 2017

Turning flat activities into super learning missions Part two

In challenge nine I decided to join The ESL Times because I like their educational techniques.
My idea is to share all that children do in their Natural Science books  with other schools using wevideo tool.
The target audience for this superlearning mission are first graders.The timing is approximately 2 minutes, is the time that take to them to show their project in a forty five minutes class.The six groups of the class will participate doing cooperative work.
I create this Natural Science book in which children can work with different materials in order to have a clear visual concept about living things and non-living things classification and animals classification to create the writing stories which will be included at the end of the lesson.Below are mentioned some goals I want to achive:
They can use the vocabulary they work with in the minipictionaries It will be a helper writing stories.
Each group have to complete the Natural Science book in which will be included anything done in class.
Children will bring to the class their own images about living things and non-living things to personalize the book.
Increase their vocabulary about animals and be capable of organizing them in different classifications.In this particular case wild animals and domestic animals.Using animals worksheet and realia.
Let's see how I transform flat activities into super learning missions.Video:




This is an example of how children can present their handmade projects.I explain in this challenge the objectives, contents and competences.It will last the whole year as our students can keep their group and weekly challenges into the science book .

This unit has been thought for first graders and it will start with animals classification.
Aims to achieve:identifying and explaining differences between living things and non-living things and animals classfication.

Children develop communicative skills, mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology and learning to learn competence.
As you can see social networks are very important.The teacher spread the word at twitter, upload the videos to the class learning diary.

At the end of the book I name some animals but it is necessary letters visual supporter which is not included in the video.In class you must include letters visual supporter.


Analysis of the project.

I decided to use wevideo as I could use special effects and music.After filming the Natural science books of the whole class the teacher upload it to the class learning diary.Then show the books to other schools or to the world. The teacher as the main responsible of the management of use of ICT spread the word at twitter.

Activities such as observation, analysis, critic, contrast, reflection, persistence, questions form, hypothesis, data and interpretation take place in this collaborative project.

Respect to the environment, be careful with other beings and care of their health. In this book I presented activities to develope these skills, but also relating the topic of the book with other subjects of CLIL in terms of improving all the subjects at the same time.

They can see animals plants and people, and non-living things all around them.

Labelling, naming and classifying is the motivational centre in this book.

Self-reflection. 

It was not easy to transform flat activities into super learning missions.I recycled ideas and materials to create a personal science book.
I did my personal book explaining this challenge so why not give the opportunity to be creative to children, it's their turn.









1 comentario:

  1. Hi Irene, what an incredible idea!! I love how you have approached you super learning mission for students to learn the differences creating minipictionaries!! Besides, I like how you have explained it through a video.
    As far as realia is concerned, I think it is a very important aspect to include in a super learning mission. Moreover, I think it is very motivating since students love playing with toys, so it will be a great way for them to learn the animals. You are going to be a nice teacher Irene, and I am sure that your children will learn a lot.
    All in all, great job!!

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