The Weather CLIL project in Science for the 2nd cycle Science: The weather The Weather CLIL project in Science for the 2nd cycle

PLANNING THE LESSON Science: The weather Know: Be able to: Be aware: Learning outcomes Activities Language for Learning Resources Thinking skills Assessment Know: That weather affects our lives; The importance of the weather forecast; That weather is different around the world. Be able to: Recognize different weather phenomena; Compare the characteristics of different weather types; Associate types of weather with their consequences; Interpret information. about weather from symbols on a map. Be aware: of how to listen to others; of how to take into account other’s work or investigation. Activate prior knowledge: 1.Differences and similarities between pictures. Weather wheel 2. We can/We can’t with a certain type of weather 3. The weather around the world. Making a graph with temperatures Content Vocabulary -weather (it’s sunny, it’s windy, it’s foggy) Adjectives (heavy rain, gently wind) Structures This picture is similar to/ different from…. Because it’s/it’s got….. We can/We can’t What will the weather be like in… It will be….. Functions Descriptions Comparisons Predictions Explanations Language support Pictures Weather wheel (word bank) Sentence structures. Weather wheel Worksheets Computers Internet World map Classifying Comparing Contrasting Reasoning -Analyzing Competences Communicative Knowing the world Social Digital Mathematical The students can: Recognize the characteristics of the different types of weather; Compare the different weather types; Associate weather phenomena with consequences; Interpret information about weather; Record information about weather;

Cross-curricular link: Science: The weather Learning outcome: To understand how the weather affects our lives. Cultural focus: Interculturality Cross-curricular link: Geography, Mathematics, Art Web links: http://www.google.es/ NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activities Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Look for differences and similarities related to weather seen in famous paintings and record it in a weather wheel Associate sentences with possible activities with different types of weather. (Matching game) We conclude how important is the weather forecast to plan our daily life. Search on the web for the weather in five different cities around the world. Make a temperatures graph NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 1: Types of weather Learning outcome: To review the different types of weather. To compare the characteristics of the different types of weather Vocabulary: Structures: This is different from this because it is/it has got… This is similar to this because it is / it has got… Materials: One set of the selected paintings for each group; The weather wheel as shown in the slide. Students are given a set of paintings. They have to look for differences and similarities between the paintings. NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 1: Types of weather 6. The weather wheel: students will analyze the differences and similarities they found, and the teacher will place each painting in one section of the weather wheel, according with the weather type shown in the picture. Whole group activity. NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 1. MATERIALS PAINTINGS NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 1. MATERIALS WEATHER WHEEL NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 2: How weather affects our lives and the importance of the weather forecast. Learning outcome: To know that weather affects our lives; To associate weather types with consequences; To know the importance of the weather forecast. Vocabulary: activities, sports, adjectives, collocation. Structures: we can / we can’t If 4. Materials: cards describing the weather, cards with the sentences worksheet NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 2. MATERIALS It’s heavy rain It’s strong wind It’s cloudy It’s windy light rain It’s gentle wind It’s sunny It’s stormy heavy snow It’s bright sun It’s rainy It’s hot light snow light sun It’s foggy NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 2. MATERIALS I can swim in the river I can play football I can’t observe stars I can’t ride a bike I can fly a kite I can sunbath I can’t sunbath I can’t have a picnic I can play badminton I can surf I can’t skate outdoors I can’t fly a kite I can walk my dog I can ski I can’t see a rainbow I can’t Play football NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Activity 2. MATERIALS Think and complete the sentences. If it’s…………….…I can play badminton. If it’s ………………… I can’t play football. If it’s ……………………I can’t ski. If it’s……………my mum can’t drive fast. If it’s……………………….I can sunbath. If it’s ……………I can‘t swim in the river. If it’s ………………………I can skate. If it’s…………………I can’t see the stars. NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 12 12

Temperatures around the world Activity 3: Science: The weather Temperatures around the world 1. Learning outcome: To know how to look for the weather forecast in different parts of the world To interpret information about weather from symbols on a map. To interpret and to make a graphs with temperatures. 2. Vocabulary: temperature, graph 3. Structures: What is the weather like in (city)?/ Which is the temperature in (city)? / In (city) it is (weather type) and they’ve got (degrees) of temperature. 4. Materials: Internet conection. Worksheet 5. Interaction: Pair work NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

Temperatures around the world Science: The weather Activity 3: Temperatures around the world Students will be shown how to search for the weather on the Internet Each pair of students will be given a worksheet with the web pages where they have to search for the weather of each city. They will fill the worksheet Share the results They will be shown a temperatures graph The will complete their own graph on the worksheet NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

Temperatures around the world. Materials Activity 3: Science: The weather Temperatures around the world. Materials UK Vancouver Spain Haiti India South Africa Australia NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

Temperatures around the world. Materials Science: The weather Activity 3: Temperatures around the world. Materials Web pages: NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather 1, 2, 3 – quite a lot In your school: 500 In Sheffield: 500 000 In the United Kingdom: 60 000 000 (= 120 Sheffields or 120 000 schools) NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather 1, 2, 3 – quite a lot In your school: 500 In Sheffield: 500 000 In the United Kingdom: 60 000 000 In the World: 6 800 000 000 (= 112 Uks or 13 600 Sheffields or 13.6 million schools) NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather World population Europe: 732 million people USA: 309 million people China: 1.3 billion people India: 1.2 billion people Latin America: 577 million people Africa: 973 million people NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather Where we are NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather The United Kingdom NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010

NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010 Science: The weather P.S. NILE at UEA University. CLIL project: the weather. July 2010