RATIONALE. The project includes different class management arrangements as well as a variety of activities that reinforce all the skills for

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1 Roser Rumí CEIP Gaspar de Portolà RATIONALE Unit of work: ANIMALS SECOND CYCLE OF PRIMARY This CLIL project is aimed at the middle cycle of the Primary School, specifically the 4 th grade. It s a twelve hour project. This project contains six lessons which cover the subjects of Science and Art. The aim is for children to learn Science concepts through Science and Art activities. Art activities reinforce the Science concepts. Two hours per week are to be given over to the project- the distribution of the time depending on the individual school s timetable. Ideally sessions should be two hours long, with the first part of the lesson being given over to the science component. All lessons can be carried out in an ordinary classroom. The class should preferably have computers so that the children can use websites, Google and software. During Art activities (specially for modelling clay and painting) desks and clothes will need protection. The topics developed in the project are as follows: Science: Animals: habitat, grouping and food chains. Art: Art and visual education. Development of creativity: representing animals and drawing up fact-files. Practice of a range of art techniques: modelling, painting, drawing and making books. Some of the art activities can be used as assessment. Art activities will encourage children to think about what they have learnt through the lesson, and reinforce the science content. At the end of the project there is one art activity and one activity to teach special needs pupils. The project includes different class management arrangements as well as a variety of activities that reinforce all the skills for

2 Roser Rumí CEIP Gaspar de Portolà Unit of work: ANIMALS SECOND CYCLE OF PRIMARY speaking, listening, reading and writing. Activities have been designed to encourage all styles of learning. Project sequencing: LESSON 1: CATS Aim: to introduce children to animals. Art activity: A Big Cat Passport / scraped technique LESSON 2: HABITAT Aim: to learn about animals into their habitat Art activity: a Zig-Zag book: A day in life of an elephant LESSON 3: MAMMALS, REPTILES AND ARACHNIDS Aim: To classify animals in three groups and think about classification criteria Art activity: Spiders web LESSON 4: VERTEBRATES Aim: vertebrates and about the differences between vertebrates and invertebrates Art activity: craft activity: make animals LESSON 5 : FOOD CHAINS 1 Aim: To learn what animals eat Art activity: Make a food web book: Blue Whale LESSON 6: FOOD CHAINS 2 Aim: organisms: producers, consumers and decomposers. Art activity: an animal mobile/ painting a t-shirt

3 Roser Rumí CEIP Gaspar de Portolà LANGUAGE Unit of work: ANIMALS SECOND CYCLE OF PRIMARY LESSONS Lesson 1 CATS-Introduction Lesson 2 HABITAT Lesson 3 MAMALS, REPTILES AND ARACHNIDS Lesson 4 VERTEBRATES Lesson 5 FOOD CHAINS 1 Lesson 6 FOOD CHAINS 2 Big Cats Nouns of animals Nouns of habitats Actions VOCABULARY Nouns of mammals, reptiles and arachnids. Nouns of vertebrates and invertebrates animals Nouns of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores animals Adjectives: stripy, spotty, grumpy, hairy, scary, curly, twisty Nouns of animals on the land and in the sea Specific vocabulary: producers, consumers and decomposers Shapes: triangle, circle, square, rectangle CHUNKS My favourite animal is It is It lives It eats. MIND MAP I can find It lives It flaps It slithers Third person s It is a mammal It has got It has got babies.. It lays It eats They have got They live Third person s It has got It hasn t got It is It isn t It lives It doesn t live (Negative form) We can see I think I can see Passive form: is eaten by There is /there are..are classified into Its favourite food is Revision: It eats/ It lives/ it is/ It has got/ It can/ and negative sentences. Revision: passive form

4 LESSON/ACTIVITY PURPOSE LEARNING STYLES Lesson 1 (2 h) CATS 1-Think about animals. 2-Look at the cat 3- Make an animal mask. 4- Role play time 5- Make a big cat passport 6.- Present your passport Lesson 2 (2h.) HABITAT 1-Find your partner. 2-Write a new verse. 3-Put the pictures into groups. 4. Draw some animals. 5. Jigsaw reading. Brainstorming Asking questions Asking questions inventing Speaking Making a puzzle Narrative/sequencing Comparing and contrasting Collaborating Physical /Musical Kinaesthetic Physical COGNITIVE SKILLS Sharing ideas Hypothesing Asking questions Performing Clarifying Planning Selecting information Making connections RESOURCES Big Cats Frame Paul Klee: Cat and Bird Tracing paper Rough paper Wax crayons Toothpick A Boogie song Flashcards of animals from the Boogie song A large piece of paper on the wall. Vocabulary frame: language support Habitat poster: Venn Diagram OUTCOME Children will be able to: To represent an animal To make a mask To talk about favourite animals To make a Big Cat Passport To present the passport To use scraped wax technique To make a puzzle To create a verse To sing To find out information from the text To make a zig-zag book To write: A day in

5 6. Make a zig-zag book: A day in the life of and elephant 7. Work in groups of six Using IT Performing Nine texts about habitats Stiff paper and chalk crayons A computer: the Audacity program or others to record a song life of an elephant Lesson 3 (2h) MAMMALS, REPTILES AND ARACHNIDS 1.- Make groups of animals 2.-Find your partners 3.-Fact-file animals! 4.- Design some new stamps 5.- Do the puzzle 6.- Happy families!!! 7.-Make spider webs 8- Talk about spider fact-files. Discussion Researching Clarifying Predicting Making connections Selecting information Speaking Clarifying Vocabulary frame about fact-files of the groups of animals Cards Pictures Hula Hoops Google/Images Dark paper Some pins Hair spray A polystyrene tray Wool or cotton Black paint plasticine Extra activity: The busy spider. Eric Carle To classify animals in three groups: mammals, reptiles, insects mammals in general (and some of them including some from Catalunya) To make sentences the three groups: habitat, food, some fact-files To write a postcard To make and create a puzzle To make spider webs

6 Lesson 4 (2h) VERTEBRATES 1.-Match the picture of the animal with the noun and the skeleton 2.- Work in pairs. Choose three skeletons each. 3.- Eggs boxes 4.-Try this experiment Discussion Comparing and contrasting Grouping Experiment Sharing ideas Predicting Observing Organising Classifying Collaborating A display on the wall with pictures and nouns of 10 vertebrates, and 10 invertebrates 7 eggs boxes, felt-tip pens, blue tack, 10 pieces of paper with nouns for pets, wild and farm animals Orange and purple painting A jam jar, soil, sand, brown paper, elastic band, small leaves, some worms Google/images vertebrates To learn the differences between vertebrates and invertebrates To write about the differences between their skeleton To classify vertebrates into three groups To do an experiment: to learn about worms To make an animal 5.- Make animals Clarifying Performing Pipe cleaners, pasta, plasticine

7 Lesson 5 (2h) FOOD CHAINS Think about animals and what they eat. 2. Draw lines from the pictures to the words. 3.-Draw three animals for each group 4.- Match the pictures and the nouns. 5.- Write the animal chain 6.- Make a food web book (Ex 6.2) Brainstorming Comparing and contrasting Research on web Sequencing Narrative process Kinaesthetic Questioning Making connections Collaborating Using IT Interpreting Presenting ideas Speaking clearly clearly A Venn Diagram on the wall with pictures of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Colour vocabulary frame/ adjectives Vocabulary frame on the wall A frame with adjectives and nouns scanned from the book : Hooray for fish! A sheet of paper, a long strip of paper, crayons, scissors and glue, pictures of the chain Computers animals feeding To make their own food chain To write sentences about the chain To learn and use the passive form To perform a food chain using the passive form To make a food web book

8 Lesson 6 (2h) FOOD CHAINS Draw lines from the pictures to the charts. 2.- Draw lines from the pictures to the charts. 3.-Look at the text 4.-Look at the pictures 5.- Make your animal mobile 6.- Make your own t- shirt 7.- Make a clay animal Tuning in Discussion Finding out Comparing Charts Sequencing Sorting out Narrative process Grouping ideas Reflecting Self evaluation Kinaesthetic Predicting Observing Making connections Observing Organising Note taking Interpreting Organising Seeing links Responding Speaking clearly Performing clarifying A frame with vocabulary: producers, consumers and decomposers A frame with vocabulary about life in the sea A frame with a model with an animal mobile Ac. 5: thick paper, thick thread, glue, wax or chalk crayons, Patterns of shapes, scissors, some magazines Ac. 6: a white cotton t-shirt, some special paintbrushes with round end, a glass of water, a cloth, a piece of cardboard, some clothes pegs, a line to hang up t-shirts Ac.7: a big piece of clay, newspapers, sticks, painting, paintbrush, a glass of water organisms: producers, consumers and decomposers on land producers, consumers and decomposers in the see To learn vocabulary about shapes To find out information from a text To make an animal mobile To write about some animal fact-files: habitat, features, food, reproduction and others fact-files To make a t-shirt To make a clay animal (special needs activity)

9 ANIMALS LESSON 1 CATS LESSON 2 HABITAT Cat and bird. Paul Klee Big cats. Animal mask Big Cat Passport Boogie song Write a new song Jigsaw reading A zig-zag book: A day in the life of an elephant LESSON 3 MAMMALS, REPTILES, ARACHNIDS LESSON 4 VERTEBRATES Fact- File animals stamps Puzzles /Happy families Spider webs!!! Vertebrates animals and skeletons Experiment Make animals with pipe cleaners and pasta. Animals made of plasticine LESSON 5 FOOD CHAINS 1 LESSON 6 FOOD CHAINS 2 Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores Food chains. My own food chain Blue, whale, blue whale, what do you eat? A food web book Producers, Consumers and Decomposers Organisms on land/ in the sea Animal Mobile Painting my t-shirt Clay animals