This task has been designed with the idea of widen children vocabulary within a project related to Ancient Egypt. The idea is that children would be working this topic within all subjects and this task would contribute towards developing their knowledge in this matter.
The idea is that from a story, children learn
characteristics and vocabulary from Ancient Egypt period.
This proposal is for children of 2nd
grade of Primary Education.
1. READING THE STORY: LOST IN EGYPT
1. READING THE STORY: LOST IN EGYPT
This story has been created using StoryJumper application. From a known text selected from British Council (Learn English Kids) website, a digital book has been designed for children to read. For the story background scenes, real pictures have been used in order to create a more realistic situation.
2. UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT:
In order to share the understanding of the
story, using Smartnote (Smartboard could also be used for the same aim)
children have to place, in the sequence order, some sentences and pictures
related to the story.
Images could also be used instead of sentences
with the same purpose.
3. LEARNING VOCABULARY:
This part has been designed with the help of
PowerPoint presentation software program. The first part of the presentation
provides the opportunity of learning the association between the selected word
with its image, as well as its pronunciation.
The second part of the presentation works the other way around, where an
object is shown and the user needs to select the correct name. This archive has been created to use it as a game competition among children teams.
(see video above)
(see video above)
4. STORY REPRESENTATION:
At the end of the task, children will have to
represent the story in groups of about five children (it depends on the
characteristics of the group). Children will then rehearse their performance
but also, prepare backgrounds according to the scene. Children will use Flickr
website to search appropriate backgrounds for their representation.
As follows some of the images that can be found
(with keywords such as inside pyramids or pyramids) through Flickr are
presented:
