Project Based Learning in Lleida
dilluns, 14 de novembre del 2016
diumenge, 13 de novembre del 2016
My AICLE unit: WHAT IS IT IN THE CENTRE?
WHAT IS IT IN THE CENTRE? My AICLE unit…
Do you
know it?
We want
to investigate it… but in a very particular point of view. We are going to
travel back in time to the Ancient Greece, more than 200 years Before Christ.
We
will know Sophie of Samos, daughter of the great astronomer Aristarchus of
Samos, who had brilliant ideas about what was in the centre of the Universe.
However, Aristarchus hypothesis didn’t achieve and Sophie decides to make a “Time
Capsule” (final product) with all their achievements for people in the future
more open-minded than their contemporaries.
Project Based Learning
Interdisciplinary
between Social Science, Natural Science and Technology
Level: 1st of ESO
Number of sessions 19th.
So we are
going to:
- Interpret the
history of the universe using records of the past.
- Design and
build simple technological objects, in this case construct a Solar System (to scale)
in a rope, solve problems and assess the adequacy of the result to put all the
distances to scale.
- Know the past the
classical world: know social, political and economic organization, the culture and
the art of the classical and Hellenistic Greece.
- Chronological and map location of Ancient Greece. Main places (polis)
- Science:
position of the Earth and the Sun in the Universe.
- Legacy: what
do we have from ancient Greece?
- The
organization in Ancient Greece: polis. Social organization. Wars. Believes.
Different
theories about the centre of the Universe: heliocentric vs. geocentric.
The Solar
System. Seasons. Eclipses. Earth-Moon.
THE ACTIVITIES THOUGHT TO ACHIEVE ALL THAT OBJECTIVES
ARE:
1. Maps
2. Keywords
3. Mindmaps: about the
organization in city-states, about the Greek Wars, about Solar System
4. Tests: about democracy,
about the planets in the Solar System, final test.
5. Timeline of the most
famous Greek
6. Drawings: geocentric
theory, heliocentric theory, seasons, eclipse, moon daily register.
7. Theatre performances
8. Investigations: the
movements of the Earth and of the Moon, the planets
9. Constructing a Solar
System (to Scale) in a rope
10. Comparison ancient Greece vs. modern Greece (Olympic Games). Legacy.
11. Compile one of every task elected in the group and
put it in the “time capsule”
OUR DAY TO DAY TASKS:
In our project’s classroom the organization is in a different way as in other subjects. In this subject, called Projects, the students work in groups most of the time, so the tables are bigger enough to place 4 students face to face.
1st Session: What
is it in the centre?
2.Activity introducing the Project: motivation activity: short performance made with volunteers. The main character is going to be Sophie of Samos, daughter of Aristarchus, the great astronomer. She is 12 year old Greek girl living in Athens. Is 280 century B.C. She heard his father arguing hard with other philosophers and scientists about what is it in the Centre of the Universe… And she wants to know the truth.
2nd Session: Where is Athens?
3. Where is Athens? Watch the video
“introduction to the greeks” and locate different geographical important sites
in a map (the country, the sea, the main polis, countries in their sides…)
4. The Polis: how do they
organize? They need scaffolding with keywords with flashcards that they will
construct, and read a text about the City-States. After that they will make a
mindmap with the words in bold from the text (production scaffolding).
3rd session:
Democracy
5. Democracy: who rule Athens? They have to
search hidden words related to Greek Society in a crossword, with the words
given in a WordLe (scaffolding).
6. After that introduction,
we will have an activity of an “Expert Groups” mixed with a role playing game
based on the society in Greece:
citizen, foreigner, women, slaves. We will discuss and give opinion about this
social organization.
7. Check what we have
learned with a “Test yourself” (hotpotatoes)
4th session:
Peaceful people? Conquerors? Traders?
8. More keywords to help
the activity. We have to read a text and create a mindmap, underlining the main
words. The mindmap is given, they have to fill the gaps (scaffolding).
9. Watch the trailer of the
film: “The 300”.
Opinion about the difference between Sparta and Athens, and nowadays. We
give them useful expressions and time to prepare themselves.
5th session:
Science, Maths, Philosophy…
10. WordLe with names of
the most famous Greeks. The have websites in moodle where they can find the
dates and the facts and build a Timeline online.
11. Astronomy. Another
short performance acted by the students. Aristarchus is watching the night sky.
He can distinguish between stars, planets, satellites… Aristarchus asks Sophie
for help. He needs to make a moon daily register (with a template)
We show the students a
picture of a night sky. They have to write a question about something of the
Universe they want to know. Search an image in the net and send the question as
a task in moodle. (at the end of the unit we speak about all this questions…
how many of them can we
answer?)
6th session: Is
the Earth or is the Sun?
12. Aristarchus is in a
trouble. Aristotle is more famous than him. Everybody believes Aristotle’s
ideas about astronomy, but he thinks he’s wrong about what is it in the centre
of the Universe… Short performance again (in this case we imagine we are in
Epidaurus Theatre, we have the image in our digital board).
- Video showing a selected
piece of the film “Agora” where Hypatia discovers the ellipse in the Earth’s
orbit.
13. Heliocentric versus
Geocentric. Drawing each theory and explain it with their own words. Search
information on internet.
14. Exercice: correct the
sentences about the two theories.
15. Aristarchus is a hard
working man. He never give up. He is one of the first scientists in history…
What is it in the Solar
System? Reading a text and organize the ideas about what are the celestial
bodies in the Solar System, which are the inner planets, which the outer
planets, which the dwarf planets, the Kuiper belt, etc…
16. Organize all the main
concepts in last exercise in a mindmap with pictures of the website of NASA.
The words used in the mindmap are given in bold in the text. (scaffolding for
production)
We revise the registers of the Moon.
8th session:
going deeper in the Solar System knowledge (II)
16. Video: “Spyboots the
solar system”. Activity 1-2-4. First individually every student takes a sheet
and writes the major number of words they can remember, of the song, related
with the subject. Listen again and check it with a partner. After that they put
in common the four members in the group (as a reception scaffolding activity)
17. We increase our knowledge of the Solar System
and all the celestial bodies in it. Every group has to check the information of
every planet, but is mixed! They have to decide which sentence is for every
planet. (webs helping in moodle). They will need this information for the next
activity.
9th , 10th,
11th and 12th session: A Solar System in a rope!
18. How big is the Solar
System? Can we imagine the distances between the planets and the Sun? Let’s
make an exercise calculating the distances and diameters of the planets to
scale.
To motivate the activity we
watch the video in youtube: “Solar System to scale”
19. Construct the Solar
System to scale in the Technology Workshop, with the correct tools, DM boards,
painting them as they are in real, and hanging them in a rope where the
distances between them are also to scale.
20. The evaluation is going
to be with a Rubric and between them.
13th – 14th
session: Eppur si muove... And yet it moves!
21. Many centuries after
Aristarchus and Aristotle, Galileo Galilee has real problems with the authority
when he tries to explain his theories about the centre of the Universe…
Aristotle won!
We want to demonstrate that
the Earth spins around itself in a rotation mode (program Celestia).
22. And why do we have the
Seasons: cold winter and hot summer. Make a drawing showing the sun rays
impacting in different ways in the different regions of the Earth and in
different moments of the year.
The “Centre de Recursos
Educatius” has a resource, “The parallel Earth” that fits in this activity. Is
a big planet placed in the playground that shows perfectly how after some
minutes, the Sun heats more in Ecuador
than in the Poles. Shows the seasons, day and night…
15th session:
Let the gods help us!
This month Aristarchus can’t really develop his
theories because they have to go to Olympia,
to the Stadium, where the Olympic Games are hold. It’s important to thank gods,
have them happy and not angry them.
Sophie’s favourite god is
Athena, goddess of wisdom (also warfare and handicrafts). Which is your
favourite god? We have a lot of them, you can choose!
23. Video about Greek Goods
and activity where they can name their favourite god and explain why.
16th – 17th
session: Final Task, present failed… let’s think of the future!
Aristotle’s
ideas prevail. He is a big philosopher and scientist, but he is wrong with his
Geocentric Theory, and Sophie, a girl in a man’s world, has no chance to help
her father.
She decide to keep all the
knowledge in a “time capsule” to preserve all the investigations.
25. With all the group we
collect all the activities made in this project and choose the bests to keep it
for the future in a box as a Time Capsule. Sophie wants to bury it in the most
important place in Greece:
the Acropolis in Athens, in Parthenon Temple,
those with corintian style in its columns, just under the sculpture of Laocoon
and his sons…
26. And that’s all… really?
Do we really know what is in the centre of the Universe?... Final activity
watching images from “Hubble’s telescope” of the different galaxies.
27. “Planeta mòbil”: a resource from La Caixa. They
set an inflatable structure in our high school where students can go in and see
a planetarium. It’s amazing!
19th session:
Can you demonstrate what do you have learnt?
28. Test to evaluate
concepts and competences achieved along this unit. They have to give the
handout with all the tasks and activities done.
When we have the exams and handouts corrected, we give
them and have a feedback in another session.
dissabte, 5 de novembre del 2016
¿Con qué objetivos he escogido alguno de los REA?
Recursos con el objetivo de introducir el tema:
- WordLe (nubes de palabras relacionadas con el tema para
introducirlo)
- Vídeo: fragmento de la película “Los 300” (hacerse una idea de cómo
debía ser la vida en la Esparta del siglo IV AC) y fragmento de “Ágora” (sobre
cómo se iba construyendo el conocimiento con los recursos que tenían en esa
época)
Practicar vocabulario y estructuras
- Las distintas “mini-obras” de teatro escritas para la
ocasión (no son REA… aún)
Comprender,
analizar
- Vídeos:
Spyboots (Song “The Solar System”). Animado y con información sobre la
posición de los planetas y alguna curiosidad sobre cada uno.
- Vídeo en youtube “Star size comparison” (llama mucho la
atención sobre las medidas gigantescas con las que se mueve la astronomía. Da
mucho que pensar, a los alumnos les gusta mucho)
Profundizar, investigar:
- Stellarium (se ve el cielo nocturno y diurno de cualquier
parte del planeta, la rotación y traslación de la Tierra y de la Luna. Se puede
ir adelante y atrás en el tiempo, buscar algún eclipse conocido e ir a
cualquier parte de la Tierra para comprobar cómo se vio…)
- Google Earth (no necesita descripción… ahora se puede ir a
la Luna y a Marte!)
Desarrollar, producir:
- Eclipse Interactive (para entender el fenómeno de la
rotación y traslación, la posición relativa de la Luna y sus consecuencias)
- Dipity (para realizar líneas del tiempo)
- Mind42 (para realizar mapas conceptuales)
Ampliar, repasar contenido:
- Cellestia (parecido a Stellarium)
- Hotpotatoes (pequeños tests de autoevaluación)
Animar, motivar alguna actividad:
- Stopwatch bomb (una bomba de cuenta atrás, para realizar
alguna actividad con tiempo, a los alumnos les motiva y así no pierden tanto el
tiempo distraídos sin trabajar…)
Which is the AICLE methodology chosen for study?
In our project’s classroom the organization is
in a different way as in other subjects. In this subject, called Projects, the
students work in groups most of the time, so the tables are bigger enough to
place 4 students face to face.
1st Session: What is it in the
centre?
1.Activity of previous knowledge of the
contents: like a game they have to write the most words related to… (different
topics related to Greece). In groups
and with time countdown.
2.Activity introducing the Project: motivation
activity: short performance made with volunteers. The main character is going
to be Sophie of Samos, daughter of Aristarchus, the great astronomer. She is 12
year old greek girl living in Athens. Is 280 century B.C.
She heard his father arguing hard with other philosophers and scientists about
what is it in the Centre of the Universe… And she wants to know the truth.
2nd Session: Where is Athens?
3. Where is Athens?
Watch the video “introduction to the Greeks” and locate different geographical
important sites in a map (the country, the sea, the main polis, countries in
their sides…)
4. The Polis: how do they organize? They need
scaffolding with keywords with flashcards that they will construct, and read a
text about the City-States. After that they will make a mindmap with the words
in bold from the text (production scaffolding).
3rd session: Democracy
5. Democracy: who rule Athens?
They have to search hidden words related to Greek Society in a crossword, with
the words given in a WordLe (scaffolding).
6. After that introduction, we will have an
activity of an “Expert Groups” mixed with a role playing game based on the
society in Greece: citizen,
foreigner, women, slaves. We will discuss and give opinion about this social
organization.
7. Check what we have learned with a “Test
yourself” (hotpotatoes)
4th session: Peaceful people?
Conquerors? Traders?
8. More keywords to help the activity. We have
to read a text and create a mindmap, underlining the main words. The mindmap is
given, they have to fill the gaps (scaffolding).
9. Watch the trailer of the film: “The 300”.
Opinion about the difference between Sparta
and Athens,
and nowadays. We give them useful expressions and time to prepare themselves.
5th session: Science, Maths,
Philosophy…
10. WordLe with names of the most famous
Greeks. The have websites in moodle where they can find the dates and the facts
and build a Timeline online.
11. Astronomy. Another short performance acted
by the students. Aristarchus is watching the night sky. He can distinguish
between stars, planets, satellites… Aristarchus asks Sophie for help. He needs
to make a moon daily register (with a template)
We show the students a picture of a night sky.
They have to write a question about something of the Universe they want to
know. Search an image in the net and send the question as a task in moodle. (at
the end of the unit we speak about all this questions… how many of them can we
answer?)
6th session: Is the Earth or is the
Sun?
12. Aristarchus is in a trouble. Aristotle is
more famous than him. Everybody believes Aristotle’s ideas about astronomy, but
he thinks he’s wrong about what is it in the centre of the Universe… Short
performance again (in this case we imagine we are in Epidaurus Theatre, we have
the image in our digital board).
- Video showing a selected piece of the film
“Agora” where Hypatia discovers the ellipse in the Earth’s orbit.
13. Heliocentric versus Geocentric. Drawing
each theory and explain it with their own words. Search information on
internet.
14. Exercice: correct the sentences about the
two theories.
7th session: going deeper in the Solar
System knowledge (I)
15. Aristarchus is a hard working man. He never
give up. He is one of the first scientists in history…
What is it in the Solar System? Reading a text
and organize the ideas about what are the celestial bodies in the Solar System,
which are the inner planets, which the outer planets, which the dwarf planets,
the Kuiper belt, etc…
16. Organize all the main concepts in last
exercise in a mindmap with pictures of the website of NASA. The words used in
the mindmap are given in bold in the text. (scaffolding for production)
We revise the registers of the Moon.
8th session: going deeper in the Solar
System knowledge (II)
16. Video: “Spyboots the solar system”.
Activity 1-2-4. First individually every student takes a sheet and writes the
major number of words they can remember, of the song, related with the subject.
Listen again and check it with a partner. After that they put in common the
four members in the group (as a reception scaffolding activity)
17. We
increase our knowledge of the Solar System and all the celestial bodies in it.
Every group has to check the information of every planet, but is mixed! They have
to decide which sentence is for every planet. (webs helping in moodle). They
will need this information for the next activity.
9th , 10th, 11th
and 12th session: A Solar System in a rope!
18. How big is the Solar System? Can we imagine
the distances between the planets and the Sun? Let’s make an exercise
calculating the distances and diameters of the planets to scale.
To motivate the activity we watch the video in
youtube: “Solar System to scale”
19. Construct the Solar System to scale in the
Technology Workshop, with the correct tools, DM boards, painting them as they
are in real, and hanging them in a rope where the distances between them are
also to scale.
20. The evaluation is going to be with a Rubric
and between them.
13th – 14th session: Eppur si muove... And yet it moves!
21. Many centuries after Aristarchus and
Aristotle, Galileo Galilee has real problems with the authority when he tries
to explain his theories about the centre of the Universe… Aristotle won!
We want to demonstrate that the Earth spins
around itself in a rotation mode (program Celestia).
22. And why do we have the Seasons: cold winter
and hot summer. Make a drawing showing the sun rays impacting in different ways
in the different regions of the Earth and in different moments of the year.
The “Centre de Recursos Educatius” has a
resource, “The parallel Earth” that fits in this activity. Is a big planet
placed in the playground that shows perfectly how after some minutes, the Sun
heats more in Equador than in the Poles. Shows the seasons, day and night…
15th session: Let the gods help us!
This month Aristarchus can’t really develop his
theories because they have to go to Olimpia, to the Stadium, where the Olympic
Games are hold. It’s important to thank gods, have them happy and not angry
them.
Sophie’s favourite god is Athena, goddess of
wisdom (also warfare and handicrafts). Which is your favourite god? We have a
lot of them, you can choose!
23. Video about Greek Goods and activity where
they can name their favourite god and explain why.
24. The Olympic games are about to start!
Activity with key words comparing the ancient and the modern Olympic Games.
16th – 17th session:
Final Task, present failed… let’s think of the future!
Aristotle’s ideas prevail. He is a big
philosopher and scientist, but he is wrong with his Geocentric Theory, and
Sophie, a girl in a man’s world, has no chance to help her father.
She decide to keep all the knowledge in a “time
capsule” to preserve all the investigations.
25. With all the group we collect all the
activities made in this project and choose the bests to keep it for the future
in a box as a Time Capsule. Sophie wants to bury it in the most important place
in Greece: the Acropolis in Athens, in Parthenon
Temple, those with corintian
style in its columns, just under the sculpture of Laocoon and his sons…
They have to draw an unreal map, as a pirate
treasure map, using a design program, for the further generations to know where
is the time capsule.
26. And that’s all… really? Do we really know
what is in the centre of the Universe?... Final activity watching images from
“Hubble’s telescope” of the different galaxies.
27. “Planeta mòbil”: a resource from La Caixa.
They set an inflatable structure in our highschool where students can go in and
see a planetarium. It’s amazing!
19th session: Can you demonstrate
what do you have learnt?
28. Test to evaluate concepts and competences
achieved along this unit. They have to give the handout with all the tasks and
activities done.
When
we have the exams and handouts corrected, we give them and have a feedback in
another session.
Ja tinc planificada la Macro Unitat AICLE del Centre de l'Univers!
We are in Athens, in year 250 BC.
Athens is the polis where democracy born.
All citizen can be a part of our government.
Athenian are peaceful people. They made great discoveries in maths and science, great astronomers too.
We believe in a big family of Gods living in Mount Olympus and, to great them, we organize a big sporting event: The Olympic Games.
Greek people is very interested in harmony, beauty and proportions, so my people have done great paintings, buildings and sculptures, in a very special style never seen before.
Wellcome to Greece!
Aquesta és la introducció de la Sophie, la filla de l'astrònom Aristarc de Samos, protagonista de la història. Mitjançant breus representacions teatrals fetes en grups de 4, s'aniran introduint diferents conceptes per arribar a la pregunta final "Què hi ha al centre?"
Athens is the polis where democracy born.
All citizen can be a part of our government.
Athenian are peaceful people. They made great discoveries in maths and science, great astronomers too.
We believe in a big family of Gods living in Mount Olympus and, to great them, we organize a big sporting event: The Olympic Games.
Greek people is very interested in harmony, beauty and proportions, so my people have done great paintings, buildings and sculptures, in a very special style never seen before.
Wellcome to Greece!
Aquesta és la introducció de la Sophie, la filla de l'astrònom Aristarc de Samos, protagonista de la història. Mitjançant breus representacions teatrals fetes en grups de 4, s'aniran introduint diferents conceptes per arribar a la pregunta final "Què hi ha al centre?"
dijous, 6 d’octubre del 2016
Ja sé fer webmix amb Symbaloo!
Aquí us deixo la primera webmix feta amb Symbaloo, i pensada per una unitat didàctica mescla de socials i naturals amb metodologia AICLE i en llengua anglesa.
La unitat didàctica vol mostrar la part de la història de la Grècia Antiga i quina importància va tenir en l'estudi del Planeta Terra, de la seva posició al Sistema Solar, dels seus moviments relatius amb el sistema Terra-Lluna i el sistema Sol-Terra...
És per això que s'han seleccionat diferents recursos, com ara:
- Google Earth
- Stellarium
- Eclipse Interactive
com a programes de visualització molt bons, animacions per entendre eclipsis, estacions, equinoccis-solsticis...
Recursos per donar suport al professor a l'hora de preparar una unitat en una llengua estrangera (recordem que el professor no és especialista en llengua, és de formació científica):
- uefap.com (Using English for Academic Purposes)
- teaching english de la BBC (CLIL resources)
-http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/language/ (academic language- Science)
Recursos més lúdics: vídeos divertits, animacions sorprenents sobre les escales i les mides a l'univers, fragments de pel·lícules de temàtica adient (Àgora, sobre Hypatia d'Alexandria)...
Altres blogs amb enllaços a unitats didàctiques semblants amb metodologia AICLE.
La unitat didàctica vol mostrar la part de la història de la Grècia Antiga i quina importància va tenir en l'estudi del Planeta Terra, de la seva posició al Sistema Solar, dels seus moviments relatius amb el sistema Terra-Lluna i el sistema Sol-Terra...
És per això que s'han seleccionat diferents recursos, com ara:
- Google Earth
- Stellarium
- Eclipse Interactive
com a programes de visualització molt bons, animacions per entendre eclipsis, estacions, equinoccis-solsticis...
Recursos per donar suport al professor a l'hora de preparar una unitat en una llengua estrangera (recordem que el professor no és especialista en llengua, és de formació científica):
- uefap.com (Using English for Academic Purposes)
- teaching english de la BBC (CLIL resources)
-http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/language/ (academic language- Science)
Recursos més lúdics: vídeos divertits, animacions sorprenents sobre les escales i les mides a l'univers, fragments de pel·lícules de temàtica adient (Àgora, sobre Hypatia d'Alexandria)...
Altres blogs amb enllaços a unitats didàctiques semblants amb metodologia AICLE.
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