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LESSON PLAN

 

Title of the unit: SCIENCE

Subject:  AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIAL MACHINES

Group Age: 13 - 15 years old

Group Size: 25 students

Timing: 45 minutes per session

Place: Computer Lab

 

Introduction: The main aim of this lesson is to emphasize the most important issues related to agriculture and industrial machines.

       During the lesson, students will acquire the specific terms of the topic and they will use them to make connections which emphasize the features and the importance of the agriculture   worldwide, as well as in Romania.

 

Learning outcomes:

• To be aware of the agriculture role on humanity;

• To define cereals and vegetables;

• To specify types of cereals and vegetables;

• To be aware of the advantages of cultivating vegetables;

• To dicover the role of industrial machines in agriculture;

• To acknowledge the benefits of cereals;

• To identify the countries cultivating half of the land assigned for the vine, worldwide;  

• To discover the 10 countries which provide the global wine production, also, the main cultivated vine varieties;

• To find out the place is Romania ranked in global and European wine and vegetables production;

• To identify the most cultivated areas in cereals, vegetables and vine in Romania;

• To acknowledge the impact of new technologies in agriculture development.

 

Subject content:

• Cultivation of cereals: defining cereals, types of cereals, agricultural machines,  cereals benefits;

• Cultivation of vegetables:

• Cultivation of vine: cultivating countries, vine varieties, new technologies in vineyard and vinification.

 

Language objectives:

• Acquiring specific vocabulary regarding agriculture;

• Developing reading, listening and speaking skills;

• Improving oral and written expressing in English.

 

Students are divided into five groups.

 

                                           Session 1: Cultivation of cereals

Each group will get a worksheet to fill in (along the activity), using the information which will be used in the assessment. worksheet

Motivating video:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt1gm3PtKFM

Brainstorming: - starting question: What is the  importance of cereals in everyday life?

The vocabulary of the topic: Keywords

Task: Acquiring and using spcific terms of the topic - “Cultivation of cereals”

Activities:

• Presenting a material about the cultivation of cereals and industrial machines; presentation cultivating cereals

• Playing a multiple choice game;

• Identifying the types of plants, using samples.

Assessment:

• Identifying keywords after watching a video and writing them on the worksheet;

• Using keywords in  teaching game;

• Matching plants (pictures) to words.

 

At the end, students watch a video:  “The farms of the future” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg27iMXwdV0

 

Session 2: Cultivation of vegetables

 

Brainstorming: - starting question: What vegetables do you know?

Using the information offered by students, there will be drown a bunch on the topic “The most important vegetables”, made on flipchart paper.   

 

The vocabulary of the topic: Vocabulary - Vegetables culture.

Task: Acquiring and using the specific terms on the topic  - “Cultivation of vegetables”

Activities:

• Presenting a material about the cultivation of vegetables legumelor and industrial machines - informative material

• Filling in a text;

• Matching the word to the pictures; vegetables

• Matching orally other two related words, starting from a keyword.

Assessment:

• Using keywords  in completing a lacunar text;

• Matching the words to the pictures (each group gets a worksheet);

• Acquiring the specific vocabulary.

 

The activity will be ended by watching a video: greenhouse vegetables

 

                                         Session 3: Cultivation of vine/ Viticulture

 

Brainstorming:  vinetechequipment

 

The vocabulary of the topic: viticulture keywords

Task: Acquiring and using the specific terms on the topic  - “Viticulture”

Activities:

• Using a map of Europe, mark the top countries in vineyards and wine production:   map of Europe

• Matching the pictures to the keywords  words and pictures

 

• Building up sentences using the keywords.

 

Assessment:

• Each group gets a worksheet with a map of Europe. The task is to mark the main wine producing countries and also the main vine cultivator countries.

• Each group gets a worksheet with the same task, of matching words to pictures,

• Using keywords in building up sentences.

 

General activity (for all three sessions):

• Making posters.

 

Assessment:

Each group will  perform a poster on a specific topic of Agriculture:

• the first group will receive an envelope which consists of plant images, seeds and uses ( students must match the three groups of elements);

• the second group must match agricultural machines and technologies represented by images to their name;

• the third group must write the benefits of cereals;

• the fourth group will get an envelope which consists of animal images (students must write the name of the animal and their importance);

• the fifth group must draw a bunch with the three branches of agriculture presented in the material(cultivation of cereals, cultivation of vegetables, viticulture) and match appropriate images to each agricultural branch.

Resources:

Google Presentation: presentation cultivating cereals, informative material, winemaking industry

Google Docs: worksheet, Keywords-cereals, Vocabulary - Vegetables culture,

viticulture keywords,  map of Europe, words and pictures,  vegetables

Motivating video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt1gm3PtKFM,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YQ2EFta0sM

Concluding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg27iMXwdV0, greenhouse vegetables

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