English Materials for Primary Education: TASKS (GA1)

My group were told to create four tasks filled with activities that include at least four different ICTs, one rubric and one excel grid.

These are the resulting tasks:

1) CREATIVE WRITING TASK

ACT.1 : Students will create a story. With this purpose, they will think about the main characteristics of their story: main characters, setting, time, and the general idea for each one of the parts that a story should have. With this purpose, they will fulfill a table using Microsoft Word.

Characters (who are the most important people that appear in the story?)
Setting (where does your story take place?)
Time (when does your story happen?)
Beginning (presentation of the characters, setting and time, as well as of a problem)
Middle part (how the problem evolves)
Ending (how the problem is solved)

ACT.2: The students will go to StoryJumper in order to write their final story.

Once they’ve finished, they will copy the code given for sharing the story in a site and they will post them in the blog of the class, so that the teacher can embed them there later.

ACT.3: 1) The pupils will have to rethink their stories as a comic. They will enter Pixton and try the free trial to create it.

ACT. 4: The children will create a poem about whatever they want. The poem will have at least four paragraphs of four verses each, with a consonant rhyme. In order to facilitate them the task, they will use the website “Rhymebrain” (http://rhymebrain.com/en) to find words that rhyme with others. They will write the poem in a Word document. Later, each student will read out loud his/her poem and they will vote for the best, which will be uploaded to the blog.

Once upon a time, there was a farmer.

He had lots of pigs but he wasn’t rich.

But the King planned a feast for that summer,

and he robbed his pigs to have enough meat.

Then the poor farmer, who was called Justin

became angry and went to the castle.

He found out of there two friends, who told him

“They won’t let you in, you’re a vassal”

But he entered and talked to the king.

as angry as he was, nobody could

stop him, and thus the king ordered to bring

Justin’s fat pigs, that with him since then stood.

2) MATH TASK

ACT.1: 1. In groups of four people, measure the classroom and the objects, and complete the table below in an excel sheet.

ACT. 2: Create a graph with http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/. Compare the areas of the various objects when using different measuring tools.

ACT. 3: 2. Create a plan for the classroom using Floorplanner. Include all the objects in their correct places in it. http://es.floorplanner.com/demo#assets

ACT. 4: Create with Geogebra a new carpet for the floor made with:

1. 2 metres wide squares

2. 2 metres wide regular triangles

¿How many of them do we need to cover all the carpet?

Solve the problem and compare your result with the picture you made.

3) GEOGRAPHY TASK

ACT. 1: Students have to go to this webpage game: http://online.seterra.net/en/ex/86

They have to click on the correct autonomous communities.

ACT. 2: Students have to surf this webpage: http://www.elabueloeduca.com/aprender_e/geografia/autonomias/autonomias.html#cabecera

They will find some theory about the autonomous communities and their provinces in Spain and then, they will have to play the four games in the left column.

ACT.3: Students will have to open Google Earth and look for the geographic coordinates of the following capitals:

Pamplona
Logroño
San Sebastián
Bilbao
Zaragoza
Vitoria
Cartagena
Mérida
Santiago

ACT. 4: Students will choose the capital they like the most and they will select some pictures about it in Google Images. Next, they will have to create a collage in this webpage: http://www.kizoa.es/. They have to create an account previously.

Then, they will upload their collages to the classroom blog.

4) SCIENCES TASK

ACT. 1: Students have to click on the HotPotatoes reading activity, where they have to read the fable and answer the questions.

ACT. 2: Fill-in-the-gap's activity about the fable read before.

ACT.3: Create a mindmap through Bubbl about lions. Students have to search for information in the Internet about them, select the relevant information and reproduce it into the map.