Marta Liaño Paredes
5th course (10-11 years old) – Science and Art
and Crafts
Your task: Plan a cross-curricular mini-project. Your
mini-project should incorporate some of the techniques you have seen on the
course so far. Complete the table below.
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Topic and project title
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Ecosystems. How would be your ideal world?
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Your subject area: How will the project fit with your
subject?
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It fits perfectly because it has to do with the curriculum
and it is a theme that students love it.
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Who are you doing the project with?
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I´m doing this project with the 5th course
students, they are a mixed-abilited class, they are quite talkative but they
are also quite enthusiastic. I´m doing this project in the Science area and
in Art and Crafts.
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Learning objectives
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To examine the relationships between living things in an
ecosystem and the importance of keeping these relationships balanced.
To identify the characteristics of different ecosystems.
To describe how living things are organized in an
ecosystem.
To identify the members of a food chain and explain their
function in it and analyse a food web
To identify further types of relationships in an
ecosystem.
To differentiate between beneficial and harmful
relationships.
To apply knowledge acquired in the unit to carry out a
task.
To build the food web of an ecosystem.
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Anticipated problems (and solutions)
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At the beginning when I asked the students how their ideal
world would be, they started saying many different things for example one of
my students wanted to live in the space, another student wanted to live with
dolphins, … so it was really funny asking a driving question and their
responses were quite crazy. I used the “think, pair and share technique”
They worked into heterogeneous groups of four and five
(they are 23 students) “The scaffolding technique”
Another problem was to try to concrete the things we
wanted to include in our project. First of all we started doing a mind map
and them we decided to put the information in a lapbook.
In Art they decided create the different ecosystems using
shoes boxes.
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Marta Liaño Paredes
5th course (10-11 years old)
– Science and Art and Crafts
Teach your mini-project. Reflect on how it went. Be prepared
to give feedback.
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Group and date taught
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5th course. We
have developed this project in two weeks (from the 12th to the 23rd
of February)
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What did you do?
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(scan and attach a copy of
the material you used, or paste any links below)
I
asked them an opened question and they started giving options. Then they
created a mind map and we started working. The groups were heterogeneous and
there were roles for the group students. They decided to put the information
in lapbooks so at the beginning they searched information in laptops and in
the science book and then they started working in the lapbooks. When they
were ready they introduced it to the class.
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What went well
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The group work was really
good and I think they have understood the topic quite well. I have also tried
to give them warm encouragement and a constructive criticism of learner´s
work.
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Reflection for future
practice
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What needed improvement/changes and
why
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Most of the projects went
well because it is quite attractive for kids but perhaps it is a extensive
theme and students haven´t had enough time to work in it deeply.
Almost everything was fine
except students needed to speak in Spanish when they were in the group and I
wasn´t with them
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What would you change considering
level, age or other factors
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Perhaps I will ask them to
produce a power point.
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Links/materials
here:
This
video was used to explain living things and physical environment:
This is a video with a brief explanation of
ecosystems:
This video was to explain the nutrition in
the ecosystems:
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