AICLE / CLIL
CLIL LESSON PLAN
Course / Level: Sixth Grade
Title of the Unit:
National Standard – Middle School: Science, technology, and society
Justifies the importance of water resources in the emergence and development of human
communities.
1. Objectives / Criteria of evaluation To understand the importance of water in the society.
2. Content Water is one of the most important resources of the planet. Without it, any
living being could survive or have a good life wherever it be. Also, the
relationship and the daily life of organisms on Earth need water to have an
effective cooperation to survive. For that reason, in this session, students are
going to discover and analyze how water help us to have a good daily life.
3. Language Vocabulary Water
Content / Resource
Communication Living being.
Daily life / every day
(el profesor de área Grammar Simple present
no lingüística (ANL) Water is useful to live
también prestará I need water every day
atención a este Skills Speaking
aspecto) Writing
Listening
4. Contextual and Cultural elements Water is the foundation of life: a crucial resource for humanity and all other
living things. We all need it, and not just for drinking. Our rivers and lakes,
our coastal, marine and subway waters are valuable resources that must be
protected.
Water also contributes to the stability of the functioning of the environment
and of the beings and organisms that inhabit it, and is therefore an
indispensable element for the subsistence of animal and plant life on the
planet. In other words, "water is a basic necessity for living beings and an
essential natural element in the configuration of environmental systems". In
this respect, this vital liquid constitutes more than 80% of the body of most
organisms and is involved in most of the metabolic processes carried out in
living beings; it also plays a fundamental role in the photosynthesis process
of plants and is the habitat of a great variety of living beings.
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5. Cognitive Processes Using Bloom’s Taxonomy, they are going to develop 5 steps of cognition:
1. Remember: Students are going to recall all the ideas and previous knowledge
about the importance of water.
2. Understand: They are going to describe the most frequent uses of water of daily
life.
3. Apply: Students are going to illustrate the examples they gave with a practical
exercise.
4. Analyze: They are going to deduce what could happen if water does not exist,
relating with the examples and ideas they gave previously.
5. Evaluate: Students are going to examine the way to communicate the information
shared during the class.
6. Create: Students are going to design a visual thinking to socialize the knowledge
acquired in the class.
6. (a). Task / s (final) To create a cooperative visual thinking about the most important and relevant
aspects of water.
6. (b). Activities Generate a brainstorming about the ideas that students have of water and their
importance in daily life.
AICLE / CLIL
Dialog in groups to share ideas and discuss about it.
Prove or give real example of how water helps humans to live.
Create the Cooperative Visual Thinking.
7. Methodology
Activate 1 (Engage):
Bring some aliment such as spicy food or something disgusting, then, ask someone to
eat it and then provide a glass of water to “clam” that sensation of the food in the
mouth.
Study Focus:
With this, teacher will ask to students why happen that… was water necessary? Why?
There, the students start to share their ideas with the class.
Study Practice:
Class Structure At this moment, students make groups and must share their ideas between them to
make a contrast and find out if the ideas are different, or are the same, and so on.
They are going to make a list of the most important ideas and thoughts (in Spanish if
it is needed), and then, they have to follow simple present structure to create the
sentences that are going to appear in the Visual Thinking.
Activate 2:
With the sentences now structured in English, they are going to create the visual
thinking to share their ideas (now in English) with all the class, and even with other
grades.
Papers, cardboard, pencil and more.
Food (spicy, bitter… Something disgusting but not health-damaging)
Resources Water
Glass
Speaking
Basic Skill
Listening
Writing
In this step, it is necessary to look around the processes that students develop along
8. Assesment / Evaluation the class. How they share ideas, how good are ideas structured and how they manage
the second language to communicate the same ideas in a different language.
