LESSON 1

 Lesson 1: planting a seed (Motivational activity) (30 minutes)

 

Objectives: In this motivational activity the children plant some seeds. Each of them have their own plant and are responsible for it to survive  In addition, they will work with technology, as they will have to create a blog where they document all the changes happening to their plants, as well as the projects developed in class.  So it’s important to say that every day, students will take a photo of their growing plant to later, add the process to the blog

 

Key competences: Citizen competence, entrepreneurial competence, personal social and learning to learn competence, linguistic communication competence.

 

Materials:

Gardening tools: Plant pots, soil, seeds, water.

-Mindnode:

-digital blackboard to show the brain storming 

 -tablets

-blogger

 

This lesson will not last the entire class, it will be done after the students have finished the exam of the last contents.

We will let the children know that they are going to begin a new learning situation; but the teacher won't give them much information about it apart from the required materials in order to start working on it: they will need small pots, each student will bring their own; the teacher will provide them with some soil to fill them up. Once every student has enough soil on their pots, the teacher will give each student a seed for them to plant inside the pot. Afterwards they will water the seeds.

 

For the time being, the teacher and students will make a shared brain storming using mindnode asking the group: “What does a plant need?”. At first, students should infer possible answers to that question and write them in the shared map. After that,the teacher will let them know the correct answers introducing them with the learning situation: “We will get to learn why do plants need these things in order to grow, how do they grow and change, where can we find them and their uses. This seed will be mysterious, so let's try to give it what it needs until it gets to fully grow so we can discover what it is, keeping them engaged and motivated during the sessions.” Finally, the teacher will ask the students which plant they believe it is. However, the teacher will not reveal it. 

 

Furthermore, the teacher explains that each student should create a digital blog with blogger (material 9, annex 1) where they write about this plant growth. They should include not only text but also pictures of the plant with the tablets provided in class. They will start it at the end of the class, using their tablets and the activity will be continue at the end of each class, where students will photograph its own plant.

Students will also use this blog as a portfolio, including all the activities completed in class.