Unidad AICLE

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Subject: Science                                                                   Teacher: María Sánchez Andrade

Title of the Unit: Living things, Food chain & Habitats      Course / Level: Year 3 Primary

1. Learning outcomes  / Evaluation criteria	At the end of this unit the students will be able to: 1.    Identify the different trophic levels. 2.    Say who eats what in the food chain. 3.    Make a simple trophic chain /food chain. 4.    Know that animals and plants are essential to each other. 5.    Learn about some differences in eating times and habits in different countries.
2. Subject Content	Food chain, living things & habitats
	3. Language Content / Communication
Vocabulary	Nouns: Mouse, snake, owl, fox, nut, claws, tusks, jaws, teeth, tail, wart Herbivore, mammals, carnivore, producer, decomposer (…) Adjectives: little, terrible, astounding, nice, kind (…) Verbs: eat, I´m going, I´m meeting, know, rumble, ran, slid, walked (…) Prepositions: in, on, by (…)
Structures	Routines: Contents: Classroom management: Greetings, take the register, calendar, weather, etc. What´s your favourite animal /food? I like … My favourite animal /food … Grammatical structures: Present simple, past (affirmative, negative, interrogative) Simple present passive structure taught just by repetition. Phonics Listen, Write, Think, Read, Place… Can you repeat that, please? Pay attention, be quiet, please (…) Praising: Excellent, well done, good job, etc. Put things away, Line up, Let´s go to the playground, put the animals in the correct order (…)
Discourse type	Narration using rhyme (in the story) & descriptions.
Language skills	Speaking, interacting, reading, writing and reading
4.Contextual (cultural) element	Food habits in UK, the story mentions “for tea”. Explain to the class that the word “tea” also means “dinner” in the UK. Talk about different eating times in Spain and in the UK.
5. Cognitive (thinking) processes	The students will identify and name living things, predict what´s happening in the story and discriminate the different animals, classify and complete exercises and charts, order & compare, decide and value and finally they will develop their own food chain.
6. (a) Task(s)	(Initial tasks)  Brainstorming                       Checking previous knowledge: KWL diagram (Transforming tasks) Using the story, the students make their own food      chain based on the animals they saw. (Final tasks) Samples of living things                      Example of different food chains in different habitats.
6. (b) Activities	Introducing new vocabulary Games using flashcards Filling the blanks with words related to the food chain vocabulary Watch and listen to the story Complete worksheets about the story (food chain, type of animals) Complete worksheet about living things Outdoors game (related to the story) Nature trail activities (learning about habitats)
	7. Methodology
Organization and class distribution/ timing	This unit will take 6-8 sessions to develop. Each session lasts 45 min. Session 1: Individual work / Whole class Session 2: Pair work Session 3: Whole class Session 4: Individual work/Whole class Session 5: Group work/Team work Session 6: Individual work
Resources / Materials	The children book: The Gruffalo & Nature trail book by Julia Donaldson Worksheets, flashcards (quizlet). Laminated cards, video, internet links.
Key Competences	Linguistic, naturalistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal. Visual, listening, kinaesthetic activities to promote MMII.
8. Evaluation (criteria and instruments)	Teacher observation. Peer assessment. Self-evaluation activities. Questions & Answers.

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A first sample of this template has been published at:

Pérez Torres, I. 2009. "Apuntes sobre los principios y características de la metodología AICLE" en V. Pavón, J. Ávila (eds.), Aplicaciones didácticas para la enseñanza integrada de lengua y contenidos. Sevilla: Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía-Universidad de Córdoba.171-180.

It is mainly based on the hands-on experience at designing units and on conversations with experts and peers. The theory of the 4Cs by Do Coyle has also been taken into account. This theory has been shown in various publications, such as: Coyle, D., Hood, P. and Marsh, D., 2010. Content and Language Integrated Learning. Cambridge University Press.