LESSON 2

 Lesson 2: Introduction: Let´s get know the seasons. (2 hours)

 

Objectives: Understand the different seasons and their characteristics. Working in groups. To make students to make connection between seasons and the world around them and how the ecosystem depend on the season to have some characteristics or others.

Key competences: Personal, social and learning to learn competence, linguistic communication competence, citizen competence. 

Materials:

-Podcast: https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/but-why-a-podcast-for-curious-kids/2021-12-17/why-do-seasons-change 

 -Kahoot (Material 1, annex 2):Projections of images (Material 1, annex 1), projection of videos (Material 2, annex 1),

-Blackboard

-Internet to look for information 

-Tablets 

AI tools (to create images about the seasons )

At the beginning of this class, students will hear a podcast (30 minutes) which introduces the seasons, relating each season with some (weather) sounds. The class should pay attention and take notes (if needed) as they are going to need the information listened. They will play a kahoot game titled “What we know about the world” (material 1: in the annex 2) using the tablets. (The kahoot will be accompanied by a photo of the seasons for children to recognise each one of them, and link them with the adjectives and qualities detailed in the podcast (material 1, see annex 1)). 

 

After doing that, we’ll still have around 70 minutes. So, the class gets divided into four groups and each group gets assigned to one of the seasons. There would be 4 categories to be filled by each group attending to its season: 

-Climate and temperature of the season

- Places where that season is longer around the year and the typical landscape 

-Fauna 

- Celebrations and cultural events (if there are) during that season

 As soon as students finish, the teacher will explain to them what to do next: learning to edit images and to create images with Artificial Intelligence.  The teacher will guide them in every step, in both exercises. When finishing the lesson, students should have the information collected in a Google Document and the IA images generated related to the information they have looked for, because on the following lesson they will still work on that.