Template Lesson Plan- april’12 All subjects excluding pe & Gaeilge

1. That all children will be enabled to create a scene Tom Crean may have seen in Antarctica.

2. That most children will be enabled to add more detail to their constructions by cutting materials to fit, by making use of shape and space.

3. That some children will be enabled to depict a scene they remember from the extract of the Tom Crean book.

Teacher Observation:

I will assess the children’s understanding of shape and space. I will assess their understanding of the fact that they must create an Antarctic scene, based on the information we have gathered about Antarctica.


Teacher Questioning

Lower Order questions:

What does Antarctica look like?

What do you think was the first thing Tom Crean saw when he got off the boat?

What do you think he would have liked to have seen?
Higher Order Questions:

How will you recreate this scene?

Can you add in anything you think Tom Crean would like to have seen in Antarctica, maybe some food and blankets?

How will you recreate this using the materials available?

What do you like most about your work?

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  Talk and Discussion: listening, questioning, brainstorming, think, pair, share.
  
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  Collaborative/Co-operative Learning: group work.
  
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  Active Learning: hands on experience.
  
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  Skills through Content: observing, predicting, investigating and experimenting, estimating and measuring, analyzing, synthesizing, describing, categorizing, recording and communicating.
  
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  Using Local Environment: use of pupil environment and lived experience.
  
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  Problem Solving: apply logic and rationality to given situations
  

The teacher will remind the children of the dioramas they created last week. The teacher will inform the children that they will be creating an Antarctic scene using a cardboard box and various art materials.

The teacher will have pictures of Antarctica on the whiteboard to act as a stimulus for the children. The teacher will ask the children to remember the extract from the story they listened to, did it describe Antarctica?

The teacher will divide the class into groups of four and one group of three.

The teacher will have the necessary art materials left in the middle of each table.

The teacher will assign roles within each group.

Each group must depict a different scene on Tom Crean’s journey.

The teacher will circulate the room, drawing attention to shape, space, line and form.

The teacher will ask the children to show her examples of the above concepts in their work.

The communicator from each group will talk about their construction to the rest of the class.

Each group will show their construction and explain why they used certain materials, how the materials worked and why they decided on that particular scene etc.

The constructions will be displayed on the Art table.

Cardboard boxes

Recyclable materials

Pipe cleaners,

Old wallpaper

Pieces of fabric, carpet, lace

Crepe paper

Buttons

Sellotape

English: 30-9-13 Tom Crean- character profile

Drama: 4-10-13The children will use improvisation and freeze framing to recreate a scene from the book.
SPHE: 3-10-13- The children will discuss the decisions Tom Crean made in the book Ice Man. The children will talk about times when they have had to make difficult decisions, like Tom Crean.

Science- 1-10-13- The children will discuss materials- the material of Tom Crean’s clothes etc. The children will make ice-cream by mixing materials.

History- 1-10-13- the children will learn about Tom Crean via a power-point presentation and an extract from the book ‘Ice Man’. The children will create a fact file on Tom Crean.

History- 2-10-13- The children will read another extract from the book ‘Ice Man’. The children will discuss how Tom Crean was feeling. They will write a diary entry pretending to be Tom Crean.

Geography: 2-10-13- The children will examine Antarctica on the map. The children will map out Tom Crean’s journey on the map. The children will create their own map of their journey to school.