Skills integration – Eco Web 2.0

Teaching Guide: Good citizenship practices

Author: Rafael Eduardo Acevedo Rivera – Description: This plan gives students a chance to use their knowledge in a practical way about modal verbs like should. Students can be an active actor of change in school by promoting good citizenship practices that other children in the institution can consider and apply to construct a better community. Besides, this lesson plan has plenty of activities that can measure students’ skills in different grades of difficulty by using formative and also summative assessment.

Teaching Guide: Important people in the community

Author: Erinson Criollo Castaño – Description: This lesson plan focuses on developing reading strategies and raising awareness on the role of community workers.
Additionally, this activity provides Ss with the opportunity to know about their teacher, which can in turn, strengthen bonds.

Teaching Guide: Eco-friendly Homes

Author: José Ignacio Rojas Vera – Description: This lesson plans focuses on sustainability since students are given the opportunity to analyse the actions that affect the environment. Additionally, this lesson plan promotes critical thinking since students also suggest actions to protect the environment. Formative Assessment techniques are suggested to make learning more meaningful to students.

Teaching Guide: Construction of peace

Author: Carlos Eduardo Marín Orozco – Description: This plan helps students to use the integrated skills (speaking, reading, listening and writing) as well as new vocabulary related to the construction of democracy and peace through positive facts. It also allows students to improve their self-esteem, to see other´s qualities and values, and to reinforce their knowledge about previous topics already taught in class.

Teaching Guide: Eating disorders

Author: María Cristina Pineda Arboleda – Description: This plan will give the teacher the opportunity to transversalize some subjects in one topic and; on the other hand, students can make different task that will be in a complete prevention plan at the end of the class. Also, the teacher can adapt or modify the context (rural or urban); Finally, the implementation of different types of formative assessment can be found.

Teaching Guide: Getting to know each other

Author: Natalia Aristizabal Ortiz – Description: This plan helps SS interact and talk about their likes and dislikes. Also, it creates an input that has a very interactive place, both inside the classroom and outside the classroom. SS know vocabulary that includes different ideas that helps them to communicate about personal information. This plan can help you to make your students active since they are eager to know more and more about their classmates, who they are, and what they like to do, or what they do not like to do. Also, you can use it to practice vocabulary and grammar about questions structures.

Teaching Guide: Celebrities

Author: Fraynori Gómez Medina – Description: This plan could improve the environment in your classroom. It can help your students accepting different points of view and characteristics of each member of the group. They will use vocabulary to shoe kindness and respect.

Teaching Guide: My Superhero

Author: Jonathan Ramos – Description: This plan gives the students a chance to learn about how to use the verb can to express abilities. It is a great way to encourage your students to practice speaking in class throughout a nice topic: famous superheroes. They will have fun talking about the abilities of their favourite superheroes.

Teaching Guide: What did you do yesterday?

Author: Guery Ludth Piñeros G – Description: This lesson plans introduces past simple through easy videos. Also, the songs offer other ways to learn vocabulary and the structure in a fun way.

Teaching Guide: Daily routine and Healthy habits

Author: Ingrid Bibiana Castillo Plazas – Description: This plan gives the students the chance to exchange information about their daily activities, to know about their teacher strategies and also allows teacher to assess her students’ level through meaningful communicative activities. It can be useful if teacher adapts activities according to the students´ context and interests.

Teaching Guide: Natural places

Author: Julia Angélica Zuleta Roldán – Description: This plan gives teacher and students the opportunity to know natural places in different parts of Colombia, especially those which are closer to their homes. It is a way to encourage students to love nature, enjoy the beauty of Colombian landscapes and the importance of taking care of them. Also, students can deepen and strengthen the environmental care awareness.

Teaching Guide: Every Day activities

Author: Sonia Avellaneda Pinzón – Description: This plan gives the opportunity to learn and practice vocabulary about daily routine with all the skills. Students has the opportunity to listen a native speaker through the video and compare the activities that she does and the activities we usually do here in Colombia.

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