E-Learning Task – Chinese Zodiac Shatin Methodist Primary School

Background  Level: P5  Topic: Festivals  No. of students involved: 35 (e-Learning class)  No. of teachers involved: 1  Time:  Planning: 1 month  Implementation: 1 month

Task – general information  Brief Description:  Learn the legend of Chinese Zodiac, design the new order of Zodiac cycle and write a story about how the new order is formed (Extended task on the unit – Festivals)  Objectives:  Collaborative writing  Language focus:  Use adjectives to describe people, animals  Use the simple past tense to describe activities or events in a story  Use connectives to express time

Task – Process  Read the story – understand the story structure  Understanding oneself – learn the characteristic of people and the association of the animal of that year  Pre-writing – revise the structure and language features of stories  Writing – online collaborative writing  Evaluation – self-evaluation, peer evaluation and reflection on the whole project

Task – Reading  Read online story Read online story  online animation story  Learn the adjectives Learn the adjectives  online matching game  Story outline – Story outline –  sample worksheet and answers for self- checking

Task – Understanding oneself  What is your character ? What is your character ?  watch online video  Characteristics – Characteristics –  interactive worksheet to fill in the adjectives

Task – Pre-writing  Animal Search Animal Search  Web-sites  Story Structure and language features Story Structure and language features

Task – Writing  Class discussion - Decide the new order of animals in the Zodiac cycle  Group discussion – What happened in the race? Group discussion  Group writing Group writing

Task – Evaluation  Rubrics Rubrics  Self –evaluation  Peer-evaluation  Questionnaire Questionnaire

Outcomes  Creative ideas  Do homework competition  Swim over the sea and cook a meal  Beautiful photos of the forest  Turning pens  Run to Ma On Shan Methodist School  Win in the WII competition  Do homework quickly  Run up the stairs  Make the Jade Emperor laugh

Outcomes Interesting Content Use of target language

Outcomes Interesting Content Use of target language

Reflection  Impact on students  Read more related information  Tried to work collaboratively with others  Interested to work on the task even in the holidays  Impact on teacher  Make use of Google sites to hold information  Online marking  Check students’ progress

Hands-on Practice 