TAKS: REVIEW UNIVERSE CONTENTS

Due to the fact that in CLIL we have designed a project about the space or universe for 2^nd grade of Primary School (meetingwalle.pbworks.com) , we think it would be interesting to design a task to review the contents of this topic in a higher grade.

Me and my group we have created a task composed by 5 activities for 4^th grade of Primary.

LET’S JOG OUR MIND: UNIVERSE

1.       TALKING TO WALL·E

The student will be given a group of words related to the universe topic (astronaut, star, pollution…) By themselves, they will have to create flashcards (image-word) in Quizlet, having to associate each word with the proper illustration. The students will play with their flashcards in the quizlet’s different games.

Afterwards, the children will carry out a telecollaboration with Wall·E by Skype in which their friends Wall·E will make some questions and the students will have to answer these ones just showing their flashcards (we would print them).

  

2.       RIDDLES

We will propose the students to solve two riddles designed with Educaplay, in order to test if they still remember the two movements the Earth carries out (rotation and translation).

The riddle in Educaplay are based in showing (partially) an image that defines or illustrate the concept to guess. The children can click on show clue to be given some tips and see more parts of the illustration.

3.       FILLING THE GAPS

Now that the students have already review the most meaningful vocabulary about the space, it is time to test if they understand it and know how to use it depending on the context ( in this case the information given by the text).

They will have to choose the right words to complete Wall·e’s letter.

4.       LET’S TALK

We will show the children a video in which all the planet appear, but there is one problem….the video is mute! How are we going to improve this video?

The children will be assigned a planet and using Podomatic will have to record themselves talking (briefly) about the mains characteristics of their planet (they are supposed to know it, but just to refresh their mind we can let them do some research on internet). Then, using the recording we will complete our video. 

This is the video the children would have to complete:

5.       DO  YOU REMEMBER HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE PLANET?

Just to finish the task and be conscious of children’s previous knowledge and their social citizenship competence, we will propose them to do a simple matching exercise of Educaplay in which they will have to identify green habits.