Didactic Unit PLANTS

  

TITLE OF THE UNIT: PLANTS

SUBJECT: SCIENCE

COURSE/LEVEL: SECOND GRADE (PRIMARY EDUCATION)

1. Learning outcomes

 / Evaluation criteria

-To recognise plants as living things.

-To understand what plants need to grow and how they obtain food.

-To distinguish between the main parts of a plant and explain their functions.

-To identify the roots, stem, leaves, flowers and fruits of plants.

-To know the classification of plants as trees, bushes and grasses.

-To learn to respect plants.

2. Subject Content

-Parts of a plant.

-Flowers, fruits and seeds related to the growth of a plant.

       -Main functions of roots, stems and leaves.

       - Types of plants: trees, bushes and grasses.

       - The life cycle of a plant.

       - Products obtained from plants

3. Language Content / Communication

Vocabulary

-Nouns: plants, flower, bush, tree, grass, stem, leaves, roots, water, soil, sun, and air

   -Verbs: grow, need, live, obtain, classify, respect, identify.

   -Adjectives: tall, beautiful, bright, colorful, fast-growing, large, rare, aromatic

   -Prepositions: to, into, inside, above

Structures

·            Routines:

-What are plants?

- Do you know the name of any plant?

-Have you ever been in a garden or park?

-Do you like plants?

                         

·         Contents:

 -Present Simple

 -Past Simple

 -Enumeration

·         Classroom management:

-Good morning everyone, how are you all?

-Listen to me, please

-Pay attention, please! 

-Stand up / sit down

-That's correct / right.

-Your answer is very good / almost right.

-That's all for today.

-It's (almost) time to finish

Discourse type

-Exposition (Plants are…, Plants need…to grow, There are different types of plants…)

-Dialogue (What are plants?, What do plants need to grow?, What are the different types of plants?

Language skills

Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing.

4. Contextual (cultural) element

To connect the topic with something known by the children, which will able to recognise in their free time and daily life.

5. Cognitive (thinking) processes

Comprehend, analize, explain, connect the ideas with the topic and vocabulary.

6. (a) Task(s) 

To make a minibook about Plants.

6. (b) Activities

1. Watch a video about the parts of a plant.

2. Play a game about how plants grow.

3. Watch a presentation (glogster) about the parts of a flower and the plant cycle.

4. Learn a song about the necessities of a plant to grow.

7. Methodology

Organization and class distribution / timing

There will be big group, pairs and individual assessment.

It will take two sessions/performances around 50 minutes.

Resources / Materials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO8hrqDuMmY video about the parts of a plant make me genius

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow.shtml  game about "how plants grow" http://jpiscatelli.edu.glogster.com/partsoftheflower parts of a flower glogster

http://jpiscatelli.edu.glogster.com/the-plant-cycle plant cycle glogster

http://jpiscatelli.edu.glogster.com/the-plant-cycle  plants minibook

http://carolbrookebooks.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/lifecycleofapumpkinminibook_smartprintables_carolbrooke.pdf  life cycle of a pumkin minibook/what do plants need to grow

http://www.angelfire.com/la/kinderthemes/pfingerplays.html songs about plants classical music

Key Competences

Linguistic, Digital, Interaction with the Environment, Learn to Learn, Social and Civic.

8. Evaluation (criteria and instruments)

The Evaluation will be based on the activities planned, by the observation of the class and the questions asked to the children, their activities in big group and individual.

EJERCICIO INTERACTIVO EN LÍNEA

STORY JUMPER "THE HAPPY SEED"( creado por mí)

http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/15502412

ENLACE A LA UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA

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ENLACE A LOS MATERIALES DISEÑADOS 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HegTK1vTM2AEf_fqgUFqQg-MZWnZaufTIq1LYzzLYbM/edit?usp=sharing

ELENA BORREGO GARCÍA