GARDEN

Ten tips for learning success

• 1.- Objective: The main objective of this project is to give the opportunity to the students to create their own orchard.

• 2.- Co-operative learning: all the activities are thought to be done in groups. Some of these activities will be done in groups with different English level.

• 3.- Materials: Other that the play text that the student have been working in class for one semester. They are going to use other materials to reinforce the text, such as activities with pictures, seed, …

• 4.- Feedback: the objective of the project is to have more opportunities to use oral English in the Science, so the treatment of the mistake is going to be always related to improve the fluency of the students. The feedback is going to be positive and individual depending on the level of the student.

• 5.- Autonomy: the student will have the autonomy to create the project at their own. They will have only to follow some instructions about formal rules, but the project is going to be 100% creative.

• 6.- Activities: before the final project. All the activities are short and interesting. Most of the activities will take not more than ten or fifteen minutes to complete. The activities will have different shapes: writing, description, vocabulary…

• 8.- Activation Prior Knowledge: As we have been working on this activity during three hours.

• 9.- Reading strategies: while doing spelling and oral games and reading, the students improve their reading strategies.

• 10.- Active-learning: the final project is to make their own garden

ACTIVITIES  Recalling

1. What fruit is not in the pictures? STRAWBERRY LEMON ORANGE

WATERMELON APPLE PINEAPPLE CHERRY

 

 Understanding

 

1- Why is important the plants?

 

2- Link the word with the definition

The beautiful part of a plant. LEAF

The stalk that supports a leaf, flower, or fruit. FLOWER

One of the expanded, usually green organs ROOT

borne by the stem of a plant STEM

A part that absorbing nutriment

 

Applying

 

What kind of food do you like more (meat, fish, vegetable,fruit)?why?

Revision

1- Complete the name.

A_P_E S_R_W_E_R_

_R_N_E _E_O_

 

2- Draw a plant and indicate the differents parts.

 

 

 

FLOWER

 

STEM

 

LEAVES

 

ROOTS

Extension1- Order the sentences about the photosyntesis.

___ Energy from the sun helps this process along and turns the combination into a sugar called glucose.

___ The leaves take carbon dioxide from the air into the plant.

___ Plants take water from the soil .

___ The water goes to the leaves.

___ The carbon dioxide mixes with the water.

 

 2- Now, draw the photosyntesis process. Indicate the most important word about this process