Coordinacin de Ingls en Educacin Bsica

LETS PLAY
WHO WANTS TO BE A
SCIENTIST?

My science and technology manual

Teachers Guide
Scope and sequence
Session: 1 Science around us!

TIME AND GROUP MATERIAL GOALS AND STRATEGIES

ORGANIZATION
DISCOVER

20 minutes Ice breaker. Choose an activity to meet each other.

Whole class (write below)
This activity is aimed to stimulate students to gain
confidence.
CATCH UP

20 minutes Science around us! Teacher introduces (him) herself, and tells students
Whole class what the course is about.
Page 130 Science around us. Teacher writes the word
SCIENCE on the board, and asks students to tell
related ideas as a brainstorm, using their
background knowledge. Teacher writes the words
as a word web.
Teacher and students classify the ideas into the
topics shown in the exercise; students draw and
label their ideas.
Students get a first glimpse about the role of
science and technology in their daily life.
POWER UP

20 minutes Science around us! Using the words written on the board or the
Pairs written ones in the last exercise students; choose 8
Page 132 to 10 words to hide letter by letter in the grid, fill in
the blank squares with random letters.
Students interchange the booklets with a
classmate, and try to find the hidden words using
colors.
Session: 2 Feel like a scientist!

TIME AND GROUP MATERIAL GOALS AND STRATEGIES

ORGANIZATION
DISCOVER

10 minutes What do they Teacher presents students the e-flashcards with the
Whole group do? name of the sciences giving them a short explanation
about sciences, and then they do the exercise What
E-Flashcards do they do? matching the sciences and the things
Colored pencils they study using different colors. Use the flashcards
Page 131 during the exercise to give students clues about the
meanings.
Go over the example on part B, and let them identify
the parts of the sentence. Leave the rest for
homework.
Students have a first approach to science purpose or
subject matter; develop basic research skills of
observation using adjectives and formulating
questions and answers.
CATCH UP

25 minutes Feel like a Ask students to choose an object from their backpack,
Individual scientist! ask them to explore it with their senses, and find all its
characteristics. Teacher guides students to answer the
Realia questions given in the exercise Feel like a scientist!
Colored pencils making notes, or sketching with drawings.
Page 133 This activity is aimed to stimulate students to think
and reflect.
POWER UP

25 minutes Guess the Students choose a secret object from around the
object. classroom and look for their descriptions. Teacher asks
the questions and they answer below. When someone
Page 134 finishes, he/she will pass to the front. Let volunteers
ask the questions until they guess the object.
This activity is aimed to stimulate students to produce
oral language.

What do they do? (part B) using a dictionary to expand the sentences.

HOMEWORK T selects an easy experiment to do it in teams, and ask for the materials.
Session: 3 Lets do an experiment

TIME AND GROUP MATERIAL GOALS AND STRATEGIES

ORGANIZATION
DISCOVER

15 minutes How do Teacher explains students the steps of the Scientific

scientists work? method as a timeline using graphic symbols on the
board. Students do the exercise How do scientists
Colored pencils work? tracing the path and adding their own
Page 135 symbols. This activity is aimed to know the scientific
method.
CATCH UP

15 minutes Lets do an Teacher shows a poster or video about the experiment

experiment. letting students OBSERVE the experiment, RESEARCH
what books say about the topic, HYPOTHESIZE what
Colored pencils they think is going to happen, and finally draw the
Experiment materials in the Lets do an experiment! exercise.
materials
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POWER UP

30 minutes Steps to do the Teacher performs the experiment step by step, letting
experiment. students record their observations in the Steps to do
the experiment exercise and ask them to draw their
Colored pencils conclusions about the result and compare it with their
Experiment hypothesis.
material Students learn a basic understanding of the scientific
Page 137 method and the required actions to be a scientist,
they follow the steps in order to do an easy
experiment and record the results.

Homework Bring scissors

Session: 4 A famous Scientist

TIME AND GROUP MATERIAL GOALS AND STRATEGIES

ORGANIZATION
DISCOVER

15 minutes A famous Teacher asks students about famous scientists they

Whole group scientist. know for example Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Isaac
Newton, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin.
Page 138 Teacher and students read together the Neil Degrasse
Tysons biography in Famous scientists exercise,
Teacher writes questions to check students
comprehension.
Teacher encourages students to create new questions
they would ask the scientist.
Students will be able to read and understand a short
biography of a famous scientist, and formulate
questions about science.
CATCH UP

20 minutes A trip to the Teacher inquires students what they know about
Pairs future! astronauts. Read the facts written in the Astronauts
exercise, students cut the memory cards and play in
Scissors pairs reading the questions and answers. Teacher goes
Page 139 around the classroom asking questions about
astronauts.
POWER UP

20 minutes A trip to the Teacher asks students to brainstorm words related to

future exercise future, what they think about the world is going to be,
how we could communicate, travel, work, etc.
Page 139 Students make a drawing on their booklets.
Play memory games with questions and answers and
make predictions about how technology development
would change our way of living.
Session: 5 Tools and Superpowers

TIME AND GROUP MATERIAL GOALS AND STRATEGIES

ORGANIZATION
DISCOVER

20 minutes Tools Teacher shows students images from tools, and asks
Whole group them questions about what they are made for. What
Page 139 kind of tools they can find in the classroom, at home,
at the workplace.
Teacher and students read the text the text at Tools
exercise in their booklet, and talk about what they
understood.
CATCH UP

Tools Teacher asks students to take a pencil and explore

their characteristics (Color, shape, size, and more) and
20 minutes Big pencil uses they find for a pencil. Teacher shows a drawing of
Whole group drawing. a pencil and stick to the board, and inquire students to
Page 140 imagine new characteristics or functions they could
improve to make it a better tool. Students go to the
board and add the features to drawing. Do the
prototypes at the booklet.
Students write a meaning of tools, and identify their
role in their daily life and become aware of the
possibility of improving the present tools into new
ones.
POWER UP

Superpowers. Teacher presents students pictures of superheroes

20 minutes and let them talk about their superpowers and their
Page 141 tools or weapons. Students picture themselves as
superheroes, and choose their own tools or weapons,
vehicles, etc. Draw and write their ideas.
Compare technological developments with superhero
s superpowers and, how could they design new tools.

Homework Disguise as a superhero with a mask and design his/her own tools.
Session: 6 Superheroes

TIME AND GROUP MATERIAL GOALS AND STRATEGIES

ORGANIZATION
DISCOVER

10 minutes Superheroes Superheros day. Teacher writes questions at the

Whole group Day! board:
What is your superheros name? What are your
Page 142 superpowers? let students go around the classroom
greeting each other answering the questions.
Students describe a fantastic character (superhero)
about their characteristics (using verb to be), the
abilities he/she has (using verbs) and possessions
(using nouns).
CATCH UP

15 minutes Superheroes Teacher leads students to describe their students

Whole group Day! superheros identity using the graphic organizer on
their booklet helping them to use the adjectives, verbs
Page 142 and possessions (tools, clothes, vehicles,
superpowers).

15 minutes Superheros Superheros awards. (Use of superlatives) Ask Ss the

Hall of fame. most outstanding superpower of their superheroes.
Students show their awards to the class.
Page 143 Use comparatives and superlatives to describe
outstanding abilities, and finally compose a short text
about the character.

20 minutes My Superheros Students write a short text in My Superheros Bio

UPPOWER

Bio. exercise using the previous graphic organizer and

awards. students read their texts in pairs, taking turns.
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CLASS STAGES
DISCOVER Presents information in way students can discover knowledge on
their own.
CATCH UP Grants the opportunity to assimilate the information discovered.

POWER UP Allows the student to feel confident about the acquired knowledge,
so it can be put to practice.