Didactic proposal
This open educational resource entitled 3Rs Campaign is based on the curriculum of English as a foreign language and it is aimed at students of the 1st year of compulsory secondary education. However, it can be implemented on other levels,. As a teacher, you can adapt or modify its contents. Likewise, feel free to use the whole resource or just the sections that best fit your teaching demands.
The main topic of this resource will make easy to apply the grammar and vocabulary content to a real situation: creating a school campaign to improve recycling habits with your classmates, schoolmates and relatives.
Here, students will learn and practice contents, procedures and attitudes related to the basic knowledge areas of communication, multilingualism and intercultural values.
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By working on this resource, students will face some individual activities, but also some collaborative tasks and a final project in which they will use all their knowledge and will demonstrate how able they are to develop and consolidate some specific and key competences in several learning situations very similar to those in which people may get involved in real life.
This project is part of a set of projects entitled "English in my daily life'"which is based on the curriculum for the 1st year of compulsory secondary education.
The following objectives have been considered in the design of this project:
- to learn while working on a project.
- to encourage collaborative work, since most assignments require information sharing and interaction with other students.
- to foster students' self-learning process by using IT resources.
- to reinforce students' communicative skills through activities of listening and reading comprehension, but above all, through tasks in which they must produce their own oral and written messages.
The project includes several stages that students will need to go through to eventually do the final challenge : create a school campaign to improve recycling habits with your classmates, schoolmates and relatives. Within this learning scenario, relevant language contents can be practised and a wide range of tasks is presented so that students are encouraged to practise and improve the linguistic skills required for their final output.
- This unit starts with the Breaking the ice section in which students are going to focus their attention into the project and how it will work. By using a Thinking routine students and teachers will identify the previous knowledge. Then students will start working with questions and set the beginning of their Learning Diary.
- Let's start the campaign. In this section, students will focus their attention on the recycling habits at home. They will record a video in which they are going to explain the recycling routines at home.
- What can you do in your classroom? presents mainly the vocabulary and grammar necessary to write down a text with the main measures and things they will be able to take and recycle in the classroom.
- What can you do in your school? provides students the oportunity of thinking the best ideas about how to improve recycling into their classroom. Students will post their ideas into a padlet to be shared with all their partners.
- Finally, the What can you do at home? section offers the student the final challenge in which students will show how much they have learnt about the topic. They will have to post ideasto continue recycling at home and promoting this with their relatives, also they are going to organize all the information to share their final campaign.