Uso de recursos educativos abiertos para AICLE: SO MANY LIVING THINGS

SUBJECT: SCIENCE

TITLE OF THE UNIT: SO MANY LIVING THINGS.

COURSE/LEVEL: 2nd Primary Education.

INTRODUCTION:

In this unit pupils will learn to distinguish between living and non-living things and recognize the basic characteristics of living things: parts, vital cycle, different environments.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

To distinguish between living and non-living things and recognise the basic characteristics of living things.
To identify the parts of a plant (roots, stem, leaves, flowers and fruit).
To differentiate between deciduous and perennial trees, bushes and grasses.
To understand the difference between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores as well as the environment in which they live.
To differentiate between vertebrates and invertebrates and the five vertebrate groups.
To review unit content.

LANGUAGE CONTENT:

Vocabulary:

Nouns: Living things, plants, roots, stem, leaves, flower, seeds, air, water, sunlight, soil, tree, bushes, grass, animals, land, vertebrates, invertebrates, oviparous, viviparous, carnivores, hervibores, omnivores.
Verbs: Grow, lose, born, reproduce, die, move
Adjectives: Decidious, evergreen
Routines: Read and think, look and match, listen and number, Has it got a trunk? Is it short?

Structures:

Present simple: Plants needs water, some animals eat plant, Hervibores eat plants,,…
Verb To Be: Viviparous are born from their mother´s womb, oviparous are born from eggs.
Wh- questions: Where do lions live? They live on the land.

Discourse Type:

Exposition
Description

Language Skills: Listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Cultural Element: Promote an interest in and respect for all living things.

Cognitive Processes: Understand, analyse, apply, evaluate and create.

Tasks:

Observe and identify different forms of life and explain the differences between living and non-living things.
Identify the basic characteristics of plants as living things.
Identify the parts of a plant and know their function.
Number the different phases in a plant´s growth.
Observe and identify the characteristics which distinguish types of plants (tree, bushes and grass).
Differentiate between deciduous and evergreen trees.
Classify animals according to their food into carnivores, hervibores and omnivores.
Know where animals move: air, land and water.
Differentiate between vertebrates and invertebrates and classify them into different groups.

Activities:

Watching a video about living and non-living things as introduction.
Practise the new vocabulary.
Listening to the song "The Needs of a Plant" and sing.
Making the worksheets and tests.

METHODOLOGY

Organization and class distribution / timing:

The methodology will be active and participatory. It facilitates both individual and group learning.

The final task will be done in groups of 3 pupils.

This unit consists of 8 lessons.

Resource and materials:

Introducing video in this link: about living and non-living things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p51FiPO2_kQ and answering questions about it.
Diagrams:

· http://primary3wiki.wikispaces.com/Unit+1+Living+things

· Video lesson: Parts of a plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJjNh2pMSB8