LAURA SÁNCHEZ

 AREA: SCIENCE

COURSE: 3RD GRADE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION

MAIN OBJECTIVES:

- Understand some of the main advances and inventions in our history.

- Learn the different revolutions and their connection with certain inventions which supposed a change in our way of life.

- To be aware of the importance of certain inventions for the humanity.

We have been learning about inventions and machines in Natural Sciences. I noticed some students do not study and do not remember the name of certain machines (the machines less used in every day routines) so, I prepared a quiz to help them to remember the main vocabulary (CLICK ON THE PHOTO)

Regarding the vocabulary, they improved their knowledge, and the game helped them to memorize the main words of the topic.

Another problem for students was to differentiate the four different revolutions that happened throughout the history: Communication Revolution, Information Revolution, Transport Revolution and Industrial Revolution. Before reading the Science Class Book, I wanted to help them to clarify the meaning of each term. So I provided some scaffolding technique by preparing a document with the four concepts and definitions in different columns and they labeled and matched each definition with its name. For instance,

Industrial revolution  People could work at factories and objects made with machines.

After that, I passed some pictures of different important inventions in our history, since the telegraph, the printing press or a stagecoach to an e-book. When we analyze what could be each picture, we attach the pictures to the Revolution the invention belongs to.

For instance,

Steam engine belongs to… the industrial revolution.

I like my students practice the scanning technique for reading. The objective was, in pairs, try to find (looking at the pictures and also searching the bold words of the topic) the name of that inventions. After that, they wrote the names of the inventions and we correct them. I teach them the appropriate pronunciation of the words. Therefore, they conclude the activity talking a little bit. They must say the name of the revolution, its definition and the inventions that belongs to it.

We have to take into account, that I teach in a rural area, close to Burgos and there are only 13 students in my class, so it is easy for me to make that kind of activities, being their guide but involving them in their own learning.