TASKS

TASK 1 - THE FIVE SENSES

This taks is composed by 4 different activities. We are going to teach some adjectives related to the five senses. My students are studying the five senses at this moment and I want them to learn the adjectives which they can identify with their senses.

Activity 1

The students usually work with Edmodo so they have to log in this website to do the homework. The homework consists on revising the adjectives with their pictures, as you can see in the following image:

Activity 2

The following day the students are going to work with these adjectives. In order to assess that, they are going to complete a crossword created by the teacher in the useful tool called Educaplay. In this activity they will see the picture and they will have to write the letters properly, This tool helps them with some clues (first letter, second letter...) and the teacher can evaluate that because there is a score when they finish the activity. 

Activity 3

After learning the meaning of the adjectives, the students have to classify them. I am going to provide my students a minmap created with "Coogle", a useful tool to create online mindmaps. The idea is to project the mnindmap and they will have to classify the adjectives taking into account the sense which identifies the adjective. They can consult this mindmap but they have to write the different groups of adjectives individually.

Activity 4

The final activity consists on doing an oral presentation about the five senses and their adjectives. I will provide a presentation created with "Prezi". In this presentation they will have some structures that they can follow to do it properly. In addition, they will prepare and do the presentation in pairs. Before doing the presentation they will have 10 minutes to prepare it.

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Rubric of the task 

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TASK 2 - THIS IS ME!

This task consists on working the listening and writing skills through a song called this is me. We have created three activities using four tools and taking account the level of our English learners (7-8 years old).

Through the song, children will learn vocabulary of the body. So before listening it, we have created some flashcards in quizlet with keywords that we want the students to learn. http://quizlet.com/65147652/flashcards

After that, we will play the song two or three times: 

The first time, learners will familiarize with the song, and the second and last time, learners will have to fill in the blanks through hot potatoes program:  file:///C:/Users/Nerea/Desktop/HOT%20POTATOES/SONG.htm

And in the last activity, students will have to sing the song and record it through Audacity. Finally, they will have to create a podcast in Podomatic, and for this, they will have to upload their recording.

TASK 3 - CLIMATE CHANCE

Students have had some talks of ecological awareness on climate change. After having listened carefully, they must complete a short survey in SURVEY MONKEY: (https://es.surveymonkey.com/s/3DCRWVZ) in order to see if they have understood the talks and learned new knowledge.

After that, in small groups they should think about possible solutions to stop the climate change. Each group’s member has to edit the WIKI: (http://www.wikispaces.com/) in order to write one solution. When all the students have written the solution they will have a look to the rest of their classmates’ Wikis in order to vote the best 10 alternatives. With the aid of the teacher they will have to discuss why they have chosen those specific solutions giving reasons properly and finally they will vote the solutions that they think are the best ones. These solutions will be written in a final Wiki for future reference when doing the next activity. 

(http://climatechangesolutions.wikispaces.com/Solutions+for+Climate+Change)

After choosing the possible solutions of the Climate Change, students should create their own comic explaining the causes and effects of this change. Students will use PIXTON COMICS (http://www.pixton.com/es/), an online creation tool that allows our students to be creative, and at the same time, to improve their reading and writing skills with both pictures and words. With this tool students elaborate written productions in a motivating and creative way. (http://www.pixton.com/es/my-comics/not-posted)

The students will send their productions to the organization that is responsible for conducting talks in schools, in order to help them in the next presentations with this visual way of explaining the causes and solutions of the Climate Change. They will send their comics with TOCOMAIL:  (https://tocomail.com/), a simplified and safe email for kids, made by parents. The students get their own free email account with the aid of the teacher, and the important thing is that a notification is sent to the parent's phone when kind's email is received so they are always supervised. (nuriaer@tocomail.com)

TASK 4 - RECYCLING 

This task is focused on the recycling topic. First the students see the following video in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQrgbxVSJEw in order to get the basic knowledge.

Secondly they have to search a video about recycling in English. Once the learners have chosen a video, they have to write the subtitles by using Dotsub. This video will be uploaded to the Blog of the class.

In the second activity they have to be creative. The students have to create a story by using Storyjumper. This story must include relevant information about recycling and it might also be visually attractive. This story will be uploaded to the Blog of the class.

Finally they have to create a video by using Animoto. In this video they have to explain what they have learnt and they have also to explain how to use all the tools they have been working with (YouTube, Dotsub, Blog, Storyjumper and Animoto).