ANA MUGARRA

 CLASSROOM ACTIVITY for 3 year of EP (8-9 years old students)

Topic: life in the sea and how to take care of it.

Subjects: Social and natural sciences, English, Arts and Crafts, music

Authentic material: a link to a video of “Little mermaid” and the song “Under the sea” to fill the gaps.

Activities: at the beginning of the session a KWL chart. They write the first two columns, trying to explain what they know about the sea (living things, relief elements, environmental problems, how to take care of the oceans and seas…)

They watch the first minute of the video and the students try to guess or make predictions on what is next. In the second minute of the video they have to do the activity “say it in six” (six Word memoirs). They can illustrate it with a drawing.

While they are watching the video they can take notes to organize information about the sea.

At the end of the video each student will choose an animal to draw and write 5 curiosities (octopus, whale, seahorse, jellyfish, dolphin….) and a poem with the initial letters of its name. They also have to draw an instrument from the video, classify it according to the type of sound and material…

They fill the gaps in the song “Under the sea”. For stronger students they are not given the words. For the weaker students they have the help of all the words that are missing.

In groups of five the students write some environmental problems that affect the life in the sea as well as some good practices to reduce that problems. Each group shares the notes with the rest of the class to debate and write the final conclusions.

At the end of the session they write the third column of the KWL chart to reflect what they have learned by doing this activity.