Thursday 12 February 2015

Designing a CLIL didactic unit

In this first post I am going to use a template by Isabel Pérez, where I have describe the design of a CLIL didactic unit.
The unit I have chosen is "Plane geometry", in the first level of secondary school, 1º ESO.

The word document is here.



Template to design a CLIL didactic unit

Subject: Maths                                                                                    Teacher: Nuria Piñol Ferrer

Title of the Unit: Plane geometry                  Course / Level: 1st of Secundary Education

1. Learning outcomes
 / Evaluation criteria
-       Identifying different types of lines, according to its position in the space.
-       Identifying the different positions between a circumference and a line and the parts of a circumference.
-       Identifying angles and estimate angles in: complementary angles, supplementary angles, opposite angles or angles with parallel sides.

-       Recognize, draw and describe polygons and its parts in our surroundings.
-       Measure/estimate relevant parts of triangles: height and area.
2. Subject Content
-       Points and straight line
-       Angles: kinds, relation between angles
-       Circle and circumference: concepts and parts of them
-       Position of a straight line and a circumference
-       Regular polygons: parts of them
-       Classification of triangles
-       Height of a triangle

3. Language Content / Communication
Vocabulary

Lines: Point, straight line, angle, line, ray, segment, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, intersecting lines, coinciding lines

Angles: vertex, sides, degree, acute angle, obtuse angle, straight angle, reflex angle, full angle, right angle, opposite angles, complementary and supplementary angles

Circumference: circle, centre, radius, diameter, chord, arc, tangent, semicircumference, secant, exterior

Polygon: centre, radius, apothem, square, rectangle

Triangle: Right, equilateral, isosceles, scalene, acute, obtuse, leg and hypotenuse, height, base
Structures

Present simple, present continuous
Discourse type
Descriptive and explicative discourse
Language skills
Listening: to the teacher and the rest of students and videos
Speaking: to explain their work
Reading: through the websites where some information is given
Discussing: when working in groups and defending their ideas
4. Contextual (cultural) element
Buildings, sculptures, geometric art, op art, etc.: London eye (big wheel, circumference), English flag (perpendicular lines, triangles), the Pentagon building, etc.
Kaleidoscope
5. Cognitive (thinking) processes
(Bloom taxonomy)
Creating activities: Webquest and evaluating activity
Analyzing activities: Second activity, Webquest
Applying activities: First activity, Second activity, Webquest, ESL video
Understanding activities: First activity, Glogster, Webquest
Remembering activities: Webquest
6. Activities
1st Act. Points and lines

Glogster (circumferences and types of angles)

2nd Act. Angles I  and II

Webquest (regular polygons and triangles, and height)

ESL video (regular polygons, angles)

3rd Act. Evaluating

7. Methodology
Organization and class distribution / timing

Timing: 6 sessions (1st act. One session; glogster half a session and 2nd act. One and a half sessions; webquest one and a half session; ESL video half session; Act. Evaluating one session)
Class distribution: pairs or groups of 3 people.
Resources / Materials

Intelligent board
Computer
Notebook

Key Competences
Linguistic communication competence, mathematic competence, artistic and cultural competence, learning how to learn competence, Treatment of information and digital competence, Self autonomy and initiative
8. Evaluation (criteria and instruments)




Puedes usar este modelo de plantilla con la siguiente licencia.  



 

Monday 2 February 2015

Didactic Unit: Plane geometry (1st Activity: Pointing a map)

In this first activity we are going to revise two concepts you already now from Primary school: Points, lines, segments and rays.  If you need to revise the concepts see these videos about points and lines.

1st Activity:
Here you have a map of your town, now draw a line segment, a line, a ray and one or more points. Use different colours and label each colour by the kind of object you are drawing.



Didactic Unit: Plane geometry (Glogster: Circumference and angles)

In this session we are going to study the parts of the circumference and the angles we can trace in a circumference, as well as types of angles and how estimate different angles.


Sunday 1 February 2015

Didactic unit: Plane geometry (2nd activity: angles estimation)

Angles: Complementary angles, Supplementary angles, Opposite angles and angles with Parallel sides.




In this activity we are going to learn how to estimate angles knowing only another angle that it is related with the first one.


Help Mario to save Damsel. For that, estimate how many degrees have every angle in the following crossroad.



For this  activity, you can use the following links that will help you to know how to estimate the angles: