Mobile Learning

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

3^rd grade, ages 8-9 years old.

Materials

Internet conection

Projector

Youtube video about the Cardinal Points

https://youtu.be/eEOiz57n8C8

Compasses

Some history on the Compasses

https://youtu.be/37ikJfT2ARA

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.