Name
Earth's Day
Topic
Science/Environmental Education
Learning time
5 hours
Designed time
5 hours
Size of class
18
Description
World Earth Day is celebrated every year, all over the world, in order to increase the awareness among people about the environment safety. In particular, students will learn about the Earth’s Natural Resources, and how to use and save them. Furthermore, students will know how to reduce, to re-use, and to recycle Natural Resources. To conclude, they also will know different kinds of pollution, and so, they have to think seriously about what they will do in order to save the Earth.
Aims
Learning, Reading, Writing and Speaking about Science through the English Language: • To familiarize students with the Earth’s Natural Resources, and help them to learn some key words used in the semantic field related to the environment and the problem of pollution. • To enable students to change their behaviour in order to become a new-green generation.
Outcomes
Knowledge, Comprehension, Analysis, Synthesis
Editor
Nature16
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The Earth’s Day celebration. The “GREEN WEEK": introduction
60 minutes)
  • Discuss
    15
    18
    0
    Using the LIM, the teacher shows the event “EARTH DAY” and its aims through the public website http://www.earthday.org/blog/
  • Investigate
    30
    18
    0
    Students will identify the “Green Words” in the section “Take Action”. Each student will chose a word that he will write on a sheet of paper.
  • Produce
    15
    1
    0
    At home, each student will show his work to his own family. Then, he has to conduct an interview referring to a survey published on EDMODO platform.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Green Action
60 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    15
    18
    0
    Video: Natural Resources – Science – Learn Grade 3 – Video n. 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiKrZY5GVw
  • Produce
    30
    18
    0
    COOPERATIVE LEARNING: students will draw a spidergram in order to show the relationship between Natural Resources and what they give to human beings and to animals. Then, students will add the actions that will save Earth’s Natural Resources. Each student will only talk about one Natural Resource. (Water, Air, Soil, Trees, and Animals)
  • Collaborate
    15
    18
    0
    Students are expected to explain, to each other, how to use and conserve Natural Resources, as well as why they are useful to the environment and to human beings.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Flipped Classroom
55 minutes)
  • Investigate
    30
    18
    0
    Students will work in group. Each group will watch and analyse a specific video related to the Earth’s Natural Resources and to the problem of pollution. Then, students will post their spidergrams and some key words, related to the topic, on EDMODO’s platform using CMAP.
  • Discuss
    10
    1
    0
    A group leader will show the public the activity done by his own group.
  • Produce
    15
    18
    0
    In the IT lab, students will prepare a communal map.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Power Point Presentation
85 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    20
    18
    0
    Each group will realize and show four (4) slides, related to the video they have analysed, to their family.
  • Discuss
    20
    18
    0
    Each group will show their classmates the slides.
  • Produce
    15
    4
    0
    Four (4) students will realize a power point with the slides.
  • Collaborate
    15
    4
    0
    Four students will analyse the following video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqRNMPxifA. Then, they will realize a poster about the Earth’s Chart that they will show to their families.
  • Read Watch Listen
    15
    4
    0
    Students will song the Earth’s Chart chant using the KARAOKE.
Notes:
Students will do these activities in group, analysing different topics always related to the Earth’s Natural Resources and pollution. Time: 60 min.
Resources linked: 0
Slides show 
40 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    40
    10
    0
    The slideshow to their families will be prepared by 10 students.
Notes:
All activities are investigated by using both L1 and L2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqRNMPxifA
Resources linked: 0

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