Teach-Now
Module 3/unit 5/activity1
Ximena Rojas Armstrong
Mobile Learning
Content Social
Studies-Spanish
Objective
Children will learn
to use the Compass Rose to indicate directions. Students will demonstrate how
to use a map legend.
Learners
3rd
grade, ages 8-9 years old.
Materials
Internet conection
Projector
Youtube video about
the Cardinal Points
Compasses
Some history on the
Compasses
Adventure map
Instructional sequence
Show video about
the Cardinal points. There is this little girl who shows children how to find
the Cardinal points by using her arms. This is a very entertaining video very
appropriate for the students age.
Students will stand
up in the middle of the class to represent how to find the Cardinal points just
like the girl in the video did.
The video about the
history of the compass is also a children’s video that show a little history of
the compasses in China. The background in the video is very interesting because
it is about a video game well known by the students.
After watching the
video about Compasses, children will split in four groups.
Each group will get
and adventure map.
They will write
down in a piece of paper, what are the obstacles to get to the North, South,
East, and West. After they pass the obstacles they will have to get to the
treasure.
The group that was
able to identify all Cardinal points and get to the treasure will win.
Assessment
Each group will
explain to the class what they understood about the lesson taught.
Each group will
show in the adventure map how get, first one to the North, second one to the
South, third one to the East, and the last one will show how to get to the
West.
This activity is
meant for the students to have a flipped classroom experience. Even though they
are very young to understand the concept, they enjoy being them who take
control of the computer, game, and the summarizing of the lesson.
This activity
creates a different learning experience where the teacher is a moderator that
could not have happened if technology wasn’t available in the class.
For this type of
activity the classroom needs to be rearranged in a way that there are no desks
in the middle of the class. The ideal set up would be to have a big rug in the
middle of the classroom where they can seat to watch the videos, and later go
to a corner to work on the adventure map.
At the end of the
class it would be good to get a feedback from the children to see how they
liked the experience. To figure out if the objective of the class was reached.
