IE SANT JOAN DE LES ABADESSES

PILE SCHOOL YEAR 2012-13

SUBJECTS INVOLVED

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

CLASSICAL CULTURE (MYTHOLOGY)

OTHER: SOCIAL STUDIES, SPANISH AND TECHNOLOGY.

GOALS

Being able to communicate in English in any social context.

Cross-curricular activities. To raise awareness of different cultures. Introduce new vocabulary and useful

expressions for each subject. To boost social and communicative skills to

provide cultural enrichment in a global world.

METHODOLOGY Frequent listening and speaking activities:

– Movies, download videos from different web pages and CDs. Reading comprehension activities (multiple choice, fill in the gaps,

matching activities). Oral and phonetic activities. Strong focus on vocabulary development. Explanations/instructions are given in English. Writing plan pages in order to produce lab reports, questionaires,

exercises, posters... Apply knowledge to solve different types of problems. Oral and written presentations. Background information. Focusing on functional English produce in real-life communicative

situations.

STUDENT’S TASKS:

Social studies:– I Robot (I)– I Robot (II)

ACTIVITY READERS. TALES FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY, a classic adaptation of three

legends: Persephone, Orpheus and Narcissus.– Concepts: destiny, travels, life and dead, gods and goddess, lessons

learned...– Questions and activities on each chapter to test student’s comprehension. – Pronunciation activities: class audio CDs.– Listen and repeat.

PLA D’IMPULS DE LA LECTURA. Mini-lliçó: Connexió, modelatge, participació activa i enllaç.

This activity (mini-lesson) has been taken from the cross-curricular material for ESO: Social Science.

STUDENT’S TAKES.

PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF (by Chris Columbus, 2010).

Compare and contrast movie with Greek mythology.

CAST

CROSS-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:TECHNOLOGY

TOOLS-MACHINES USED IN TECHNICAL AND MECANICAL

WORK.

•EXAMPLE 1.•EXAMPLE 2.

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY.

MATERIALS.

DIFFERENT WEB-SITES. INTRODUCTORY VIDEOS. VIDEOS WITH ACTIVITIES. WEB LINKS FOR: EXERCISES,

PROBLEMS, QUIZZES, LAB ACTIVITIES...

NOTES AND EXERCISES FILES. ...

STUDENT’S TASKS STUDENT’S NOTES (their own notes

written by themselves at class during teacher’s explanations).

Problems and exercises solved and corrected at class.

Quizzes (made on-line by themselves individually or collectively).

LAB ACTIVITY REPORTS. ORAL AND WRITTEN PRESENTATIONS.

EVALUATION. EVALUATION OF THE STUDENTS:

– Exams.– Lab activity reports.– Written and oral presentations.– Class participation of the students: generating questions,

correcting exercises on the blackboard collectively...– Attitude and participation at laboratory at making lab

activities.– Attitude at class in front a new knowledge.

EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT.– Survey form.– Student’s survey for evaluation results.– Teacher’s evaluation.