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E-TIVITY 4: MIXING AND MATCHING (PART 2)

E-TIVITY 4: MIXING AND MATCHING (PART 2)
Lesson Plan - Space Voyage Primary A1 Group
1. Before you plan your lesson, answer the following:

a.

How many days a week do I have

class?
Five days per week

b.

Which is my core lesson source?

Activity 30 Space Voyage and NASA
Space Place web page for kids

How long do I need to complete the

activities in the core lesson?
80 minutes per day, 2 periods of
class.
Which CLIL opportunities can I
exploit with it?
Connecting it with History (How
ancient cultures studied the Solar
System and their theories) Math
(The distances between the bodies
of the Solar System) and Astronomy
(Planets and their temperature).

c. Is there a complementary activity that I should do BEFORE the core lesson? Which
one?
Watching a video about the Solar System to learn the names and some
characteristics of each planet, sing a song and/or play a game using flashcards.

What does it help introduce (language or art techniques?)

Language because it will help me introduce the vocabulary.

Which CLIL opportunities can I exploit with it?

Connect it with Science learning about the Solar System and using comparatives
to describe the planets.

How much time will it require?

Might be another class period or half of it, 30 to 45 minutes.
d. Is there a complementary activity that I should do AFTER the core lesson? Which
one?
An oral presentation in front of their class and parents (if possible) presenting their
Solar System Mobile. At the end they can do a Solar System performance: singing
and dancing representing the planets and their movement.

What does it help introduce (language or art techniques?)

Art because they have to create their mobile and decorate it.

Which CLIL opportunities can I exploit with it?

While working on their mobile projects we can show them how ancient cultures
studied the Solar System, presenting their theories as telling stories to the class.

How much time will it require? 2 periods of 40 minutes.

2. Now organise your core lesson activities and complementary activities on this LESSON PLAN CALENDAR.
(Mark the different activities CL or CA):

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

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E-TIVITY 4: MIXING AND MATCHING (PART 2)

E-TIVITY 4: MIXING AND MATCHING (PART 2)
Label the Solar System:
Match the planets and
their characteristics.
Write a Planet report
to describe the
characteristics.

Describe the planets and

compare their characteristics
using comparatives, working
in groups making Venn
diagrams and writing
sentences about it.

Activity 30 Space Voyage: Draw

the rest of the Solar System,
color and cut out the other
planets missing. Glue them on
the page and color the space
scene.

Use this song to learn

and repeat the eight
planets:
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=-63Xx7jK26A

Use this Galley of the Solar

Use your Arts and Craft book,
System from the NASA
activity 30.
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/g
allery-solar-system/en/
Revise the Solar System and
vividly describe outer space.
Students can describe the
Organize space according to
They can talk about
real planets using the gallery, line and color.
Humpty Dumpty story in write sentences using
the video. He needs to
comparatives to compare
With the Lets Talk section
use his spaceship to take their differences.
practice descriptions using
his friend back from
comparatives, by discussing the
another planet. Chant
They can use a Venn Diagram location of each planet in
the eight planets.
to compare two planets,
relation to the Sun and other
Introduce the vocabulary write their similarities in the planets.
of the Activity 30
middle and their differences
(Planet, ring and
in the rest of the chart. Write
spaceship) that is
sentences below the chart
connected with the
using comparatives, compare
video.
the planets.

Analyze the distances

between the bodies of the
Solar System, students can
use flashcards to represent
the planets (each student a
planet) and go outside to
make the Solar System
positions with their bodies.

Make a Solar System

Mobile with your class.

Use this video to see how big Bring out the

is the Solar System:
materials, draw, color,
cut, paste and create
https://www.youtube.com/ their own Solar
System. They can mix
watch?v=MK5E_7hOi-k
the colors to decorate
their planets, the way
Discuss proximity and
they saw in the Gallery
remoteness. Explore
of the Solar System.
different ways of
representing graphic space.
Verbal methods for
describing proximity and
remoteness.

We can tell them

about the different
theories of ancient
cultures and how they
used to see the Solar
System.
Present this mobile
project with an oral
presentation
describing and
comparing the planets.

Lesson Plan - Space Voyage Primary A1 Group

Submitted by: Primary A1 Group

COURSE LEVEL 4th Basic Primary Students

Core lesson source: The Solar System

Complementary activity sources: Videos and Solar System Gallery.

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3. Finally, choose ONE of the days from your calendar and write a complete lesson plan for that day:

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Day of the week:

Monday
Topic: The Eight Planets of our Solar System
General aim of lesson: Introduce the Solar System, planets and their main characteristics
Time (total minutes): 2 periods- 80 minutes
AIMS
PROCEDURE
MATERIALS /TIME
ASSESSMENT
-Listen and recognize the
- Students will listen to the song Eight Planets
Cd, cd player,
-Students will listen the song and
eight planets of our Solar
and sing along https://www.youtube.com/watch? smartboard (3 min.) while they are listening they will
System.
v=-63Xx7jK26A
point to the planets.
_ Identify what happens
in the videos story about
Humpty Dumpty and how
is it related to the Solar
System.

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_Identify the names of

the Eight Planets and how
they look.

_ Recognize each planet

by its unique and
identifiable physical
feature.

Students will Brainstorm the eight planets in the

board and discuss the problem of Humpty Dumpty Board, markers (2
in the video.
min.)

Students will write the name of the planets on

pieces of paper

-Students will be able to identify

the name of the planet and some
important characteristics.

Picture of the
planets, cards with
the name of them.
Students will play the game The missing planet. (10 minutes)
They match the name of the planet with the
picture of it and describe how it looks.

_ In pairs: students will look at the Planets Gallery and

describe orally each planet.
_Students using cards with written information about the
planet, will label the cards with the name of the planets
following some clues like for example: This is the smallest
planet

Computers or tablets Students will describe his/her

( 5 minutes)
favorite planet to talk about to the
rest of the group.
Worksheet cards,
pencils ( 10 minutes)

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_Recognize the name of
_In groups: students will read about the Solar System, the Reading passages
the planets and important have to highlight the main ideas of the reading.
about the Solar
information about them.
System and about
each planet, Planet
Reading: Use the PDF document Primary _ The Solar
report worksheet,
System for kids.
highlighters, pencils
(40 mins)
_Each group will have a planet or planets (1 or 2)

Students will recognize and name

the planet by listening to an
important information or feature
about the planet.

assigned to write a Planet Report describing

characteristics of the planet. They have to use a reading
passage about the planet assigned.

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For this activity you can make a similar Planet report

worksheet as this one:
https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/space/planetreport.pdf?up=1466611200