THIRD ASSIGNMENT
These are the three activities I found interesting when reading the article "Aulas Felices":
Title: Investigate about our healthy habits
Objectives: Secondary Education
Development:
The teacher can start asking his/her students what habits do they consider essential in order to improve their health and to keep fit. All together will write a list about the habits they choose. In the list, they should write only those habits related to, for instance, rest & sleep, food, sports, or the reponsible use of TV, computers or videogames, and so on.
Once they have finished the list, the teacher can explain what are they going to do next: they are going to investigate about the healthy habits in their high school, by means of survey that they are goint to create.
The classroom will be divided into several groups, and each group will have to deal with a different area (one will deal with sports, the other with food, etc.). All of them will have to compe up with several questions on their specific area in order to include their questions in the survey.
After that, every group will tell the questions they have come up with to the rest of the class and, then, they will create the survey.
The teacher is the one who has to make copies of the survey and, then, it will be students who have to go class per class to read the survey to the other pupils in the high school.
Once every student have answered in the survey, they will analyze it (in the same groups if they want) and highlight those health areas which need to be improved. Also, one group can calculate the averages, another one can create the diagrams, etc.
Then, all together, as a final activity, will create a list with some commnadments regarding those areas which need to be improve. It will have the form of a list with some DO's and DON'Ts.
Finally, this list will be shown by means of several posters along the high school so as to spread students' proposals.
Resources: survey about health habits created by students
Time: three sessions (1 hour each)
Observations: this activity can be done suring tutorial hours, but it is highly recommendable to use it in some areas inside the curriculum, even in several subjects at the same time (science, physical educationm, maths...).
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Title: Peer Tutoring
Level: Secondary Education
Objectives: Encouraging cooperative learning and mutual help between students
Development: Peer tutoring is a technique habitually used in cooperative learning. It consists on pair work in which one student becomes a sort of "tutor" or "mentor" and another students is the "mentee".
This technique has a lot of advantages: it encourages learning among students that are at a same level. This is, they are closer than with teachers, as their language and viewpoints are more similar, and they can understand each other better.
Moreover, it is a technique in which both parts get benefits. Students with some kind of necessity are helped, while the more advanced students reinforce their own existent knowledge when teaching the other.
Finally, peer tutoring promotes generosity and cooperation between students.
Observations: this technique can be used in a number of different situations: a student can help the other preparing an examn, summarising a certain unit of a certain subject... but never giving the response straightaway. It can also motivate the "tutor" who usually finishes his tasks earlier by fulfilling his free time.
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Title: And what about animals?
Level: Secondary Education
Objectives: Developing kind and generous behaviour towards animals and activating actions that contribute to defend them.
Development: Human beings owe too much to the animal kingdom. Through history, we have used animals to obtain food, clothes, company... we have also used their strength to help us in our jobs or as our medium of transportation. Thus, it would be unfair to forget about them as we share our world with them.
We can propose students to search for news in newspapers, TV or on the Internet about situations in which animals are mistrated. This can be done individually or in groups outside the classroom. Afterwards, they will put in common the ideas they found and analyse them in the classroom. We can choose the most strikng ones in order to work on them more deeply and to obtain more information about it. For instance, the business around animals' fur, the conditions of animals in farms, animal species in the verge of extinction...
Resources: newspapers, TV or Internet
Time: one week to search for and bring news about the topic, and one or two sessions of one hour each to work on it at class.
Observations: it can help to work the strength number 14-the sense of justice- considering that justice, love and kindness can be applied to animals to.
Title: Investigate about our healthy habits
Objectives: Secondary Education
Development:
The teacher can start asking his/her students what habits do they consider essential in order to improve their health and to keep fit. All together will write a list about the habits they choose. In the list, they should write only those habits related to, for instance, rest & sleep, food, sports, or the reponsible use of TV, computers or videogames, and so on.
Once they have finished the list, the teacher can explain what are they going to do next: they are going to investigate about the healthy habits in their high school, by means of survey that they are goint to create.
The classroom will be divided into several groups, and each group will have to deal with a different area (one will deal with sports, the other with food, etc.). All of them will have to compe up with several questions on their specific area in order to include their questions in the survey.
After that, every group will tell the questions they have come up with to the rest of the class and, then, they will create the survey.
The teacher is the one who has to make copies of the survey and, then, it will be students who have to go class per class to read the survey to the other pupils in the high school.
Once every student have answered in the survey, they will analyze it (in the same groups if they want) and highlight those health areas which need to be improved. Also, one group can calculate the averages, another one can create the diagrams, etc.
Then, all together, as a final activity, will create a list with some commnadments regarding those areas which need to be improve. It will have the form of a list with some DO's and DON'Ts.
Finally, this list will be shown by means of several posters along the high school so as to spread students' proposals.
Resources: survey about health habits created by students
Time: three sessions (1 hour each)
Observations: this activity can be done suring tutorial hours, but it is highly recommendable to use it in some areas inside the curriculum, even in several subjects at the same time (science, physical educationm, maths...).
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Title: Peer Tutoring
Level: Secondary Education
Objectives: Encouraging cooperative learning and mutual help between students
Development: Peer tutoring is a technique habitually used in cooperative learning. It consists on pair work in which one student becomes a sort of "tutor" or "mentor" and another students is the "mentee".
This technique has a lot of advantages: it encourages learning among students that are at a same level. This is, they are closer than with teachers, as their language and viewpoints are more similar, and they can understand each other better.
Moreover, it is a technique in which both parts get benefits. Students with some kind of necessity are helped, while the more advanced students reinforce their own existent knowledge when teaching the other.
Finally, peer tutoring promotes generosity and cooperation between students.
Observations: this technique can be used in a number of different situations: a student can help the other preparing an examn, summarising a certain unit of a certain subject... but never giving the response straightaway. It can also motivate the "tutor" who usually finishes his tasks earlier by fulfilling his free time.
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Title: And what about animals?
Level: Secondary Education
Objectives: Developing kind and generous behaviour towards animals and activating actions that contribute to defend them.
Development: Human beings owe too much to the animal kingdom. Through history, we have used animals to obtain food, clothes, company... we have also used their strength to help us in our jobs or as our medium of transportation. Thus, it would be unfair to forget about them as we share our world with them.
We can propose students to search for news in newspapers, TV or on the Internet about situations in which animals are mistrated. This can be done individually or in groups outside the classroom. Afterwards, they will put in common the ideas they found and analyse them in the classroom. We can choose the most strikng ones in order to work on them more deeply and to obtain more information about it. For instance, the business around animals' fur, the conditions of animals in farms, animal species in the verge of extinction...
Resources: newspapers, TV or Internet
Time: one week to search for and bring news about the topic, and one or two sessions of one hour each to work on it at class.
Observations: it can help to work the strength number 14-the sense of justice- considering that justice, love and kindness can be applied to animals to.
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