Didactic Unit - E Learning

Didactic Unit
Teacher’s Name: María Alejandra Salinas
Grade: Pre School. Transición
Date: 14/08/13
Curricular Area English		Main Topic Shapes, Sizes, Textures and basic structures of description.
Competences		Goals	Content
·         The children are expected to get engaged with pictures and drawings of the famous painter Kandinsky in order to learn new vocabulary about shapes and textures integrating them in simple structures.		·         The children will have their own understanding of the pictures and drawings displayed in the  blog. In order to make their pictures and drawings fallowing instructions.	Concepts: Vocabulary: Shapes, Sizes, Textures and basic structures of description.
			Procedures: Through the paints and drawings of Kandinsky the children will be in touched with different shapes, textures, colors and sizes. It is very important to show the pictures and always give a descriptions of what is displayed, encouraging the students to make their own descriptions.
			Attitudes : ·         I want the children to develop their confidence to talk and understand that English is a different language which they can use as their own.  ·         The students are expected to enjoy the activities in this way they are going to gain interest in the language. ·         The descriptions are going to be in the blog through videos and song.
Development
Steps		Description		Resources	Strategies
Motivation		Giving the students a variety of materials and opportunities to interact with it.   The children will feel part of the blog as they can see their works and pictures on the blog.		Posters, videos, books, papers, water paints, colors, crayons, recycled material, playdough and clay.The materials need to be given by the parents of the children and they will be expected to help them to  draw and paint at home.	·          The Bloog will be colorful and interesting for the children. ·         As they bring the homeworks at school I will take pictures of them to be uploading, so the child would have the opportunity to see his or her products on the blog.
Anchorage		The students will have the opportunity to paint and make their artistic products as the homework, after they are going to have an exposition of it, showing and describing their works to peers and parents. The use of the blog will give different tolls to the children to learn English and arts as subject or content. Working at home in different activities and technology tools gives to the children new ways to learn, have fun and develop their artistic skills.			·         The blog itself has the step by step of the topics the children are going to work during the term, giving the children instructions, examples and goal to becomplete each week.
Scaffolding		The topics that we are going to work, will be divided in groups in each virtual class , so they will learn 1 Shape, 1 Size,1 Texture and 1 basic structure of description each virtual class.  Week1 : A video about Kandinsky pictures. The description of a picture. The home work: make a picture just using circles of different sizes and describe it in 8 words to peers in the classroom. Week 2: ·         Listen to a description of one of Kandinsky’s pictures 2 times.  ·         Have a look to the picture (just after the listening activity) ·         Home work: Make a puzzle using one of Kandinsky’s pictures. Week 3:		A lesson plan for each class taking into an account all the aspects of the topics I am going to teach.
Consolidation		In every single class the children will have a look to a picture, to a vocabulary to describe and the opportunity to make their own artist product choosing the material and way to do it. In some cases they are going to be ask to upload their pictures to the blog. Activities
Evaluation		I will be an observer and listener in the classes at school, registering the process of each child in order to find strategies that will improve their skills and overcome the difficulties.		Tracking form of each children.	Planning activities at the classroom focusing in the vocabulary and structures taught in the blog.
Evaluation	Outstanding
	Satisfactory
	In process - It is in process right now, but it is being successful.