In this lesson student will explore about important technological inventions, they will choose one for each group and prepare a presentation about it and possibly make a model of it.
At the beginning of this lesson student do a quick quiz about important events from the history. They have to match event with the years.
After the quiz we start a discussion: Why are The Firsts so important? With the knowledge gained from history classes students discuss about inventions and their importance. While discussing I encourage students to use past simple tense where needed.
Driving question: What are the firsts?
Students in groups investigate about their inventions. They have to gather as much information as possible. When they have all information needed each group has to decide how will they present their project. Students use Canvanizer to help them brainstorm ideas.
Each group decides how to divide work within the members. After brainstorming they start working on their project. If they have any questions they can always ask me during the class or via our class group on Edmodo.
When they start doing the project the first thing to do is to write about the inventions. The focus is on using past tense. For making presentations they can use different tools such as Prezi, Adobe Spark, Power Point, Adobe Slate, Powtoon.
During the making of the project I will give them assessment rubrics after each activity so they can see how do they collaborate, are there any difficulties or problems they have to solve, does everyone within the group gives his/her maximum.
When the projects are done they present them to the class. Each group has 10 minutes for presenting their presentations and models. After each presentations there will be 5 minutes for questions from other groups about their projects.
After the presentations they will all get assessment rubrics to evaluate anonymously other groups: presenting, model, was it interesting. They can all give their inputs to each other how to improve for the next project.
While they are presenting I assess their presenting skills, use of past tenses, pronunciation. The final grade will include my assessment and assessment they were doing during the project and after the presenting.
Students prepare written materials in Croatian and English and together with models of their assigned inventions make an exhibition for other pupils in their school.