TITLE: Extinct animals (2008-09)

OTHERS:

• Subject: Foreign Language (English)

• Duration: 22 weeks

• Group size: One class (Δ1)

• Setting: Classroom

• Teacher: Thalia Hadzigiannoglou

• School Year: 2008-2009

GOAL:

Students will develop their language skills and learn about extinct animals.

OBJECTIVES:

Students will:

• Learn what extinct and endangered mean.

• Identify some extinct animals & learn about their habitat, diet, anatomy and fossil location.

• Develop an understanding of extinction.

• Increase their awareness of how our actions (such as pollution and conservation) can affect others.

• Learn terminology related to “extict animals” (such as anatomy, predators).

• Develop critical thinking and cooperative learning skills.

• Construct a scrap book with “extinct animals”.

• Identify flags and locations of extinct animals in the world map.

MATERIALS:

Worksheets

P.C.

Camera

World Map

Special flags constructed by the children.

METHODOLOGY:

• Activation of prior knowledge.

• Mediation activity (text written in Greek with specific terminology in both English and Greek).

• Quiz in English.

• Construction of flags (the habitat of the extinct animal) and extinct animal pictures.

OUTCOMES:

• A scrap book with extinct animals and a cover designed with the use of the P.C.

• A world map covered with flags and pictures of extinct animals.

• A photo of students with their books and the map.

EVALUATION:

Quantitative

Student questionnaire

DISSEMINATION:

• Poster Presentation

• Scrap book exhibition