3FCA A three-fold cloud activity
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LESSON PLAN
Title
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Short description
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Age group and subject
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Timing
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Aims
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Steps of the lesson
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Assessment
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Materials and Apps
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A collage of moments
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Title
3FCA A three-fold cloud activity
Short description This a realistic proposal for a real ordinary activity in my classroom in my secondary school, that is to say, with our real situation of resources and organization. Students will learn how to create word clouds and upload them in a forum of a Moodle learning management system.
Age group and subject 1º de ESO. English.
Timing 3 sessions in 3 weeks to provide students with time to produce the clouds.
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Aims ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
to learn what a word cloud is. to learn how to make a word cloud to produce three word clouds to summarise classroom ordinary non-digital activity by producing three word clouds. to learn to access a forum of Moodle learning management system. to post the clouds in the forum. to identify important information. to summarise important information. To learn essential parts of identification. To learn essential parts of descriptions. To ask for and give personal information. To ask for and give details of personal, psychological and appearance details. To foster collaborative learning. To foster learning by doing.
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Steps of the lesson 1.
Session 1 1.1. Teacher will show students what a word cloud is by using the beamer and the interactive digital board (B and IDB). 1.2. Teachers will show students how to create a word cloud with an online tool (with B and IDB). 1.3. Teacher will show students where and how to find Apps (Play Store, and Online Tools) 1.4. Teacher will ask students to take out mobile phones ,if any, visit Play Store and Download an App. 1.5. Teacher will propose three different clouds: full name, ordinal numbers, 5 items for description. 1.6. Teacher will show students how to save clouds in mobile phones and in Drive. 1.7. Teacher will ask most skillful students to show other classmates how to proceed to create and how to save clouds.
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Session 2 2.1. Teacher will show students how to access the Forum in Moodle ( every group in school has access to the school Moodle system). 2.2. Teacher will show students the Forum where to upload the clouds and how to do it (Answer, Make a comment and add). 2.3. Students will be shown the rubric. 2.4. Teacher will ask students to take out their mobile phones. 2.5. Students will proceed to create clouds for some time of the ordinary lesson time. 2.6. Students will help one another to carry out the task. 2.7.
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Session 3 3.1. Teacher will show students the clouds uploaded (by using the beamer and digital board). 3.2. Students will proceed to create and upload pieces of work (clouds), help one another to do it. 3.3. Students will assess their products by using the rubric.
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Assessment This rubric will be used. (0 points)
Keep working (1 point)
On the right track (2 points)
Great work (3 points)
Number of clouds
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1
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Content of clouds
●Full name ●9 ordinals ●5 terms and adjectives
●Full name ●9 ordinals ●5 terms and adjectives
●Full name ●9 ordinals ●5 terms and adjectives
●Full name ●9 ordinals ●5 terms and adjectives
Visualimpact
●Not clear ●no good chromatic combination ●Illegible fonts ●small sizes
●clear ●good chromatic combination ●Illegible fonts ●small sizes
●clear ●good chromatic combinatio n ●legible fonts ●small sizes
●clear ●good chromatic combination ●legible fonts ●correct sizes
uploaded in correct thread
No correct placement
two incorrect placements
1 incorrect placement
Correct placements
Punctuality
impunctual
Punctual 1 day anticipation
Punctual 2 days’ anticipation
Punctual immediately
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Materials and Apps The following ones are needed: beamer, interactive digital board, mobile phones. PCs, On line tools : WordArt Apps: Word cloud (App). More Apps: Top 6 Apps for word clouds Information about Tools and Apps WordArt online Description http://recursostic.ucv.cl/wordpress/index.php/essential_grid/wordart-perfil-docente/ URL https://wordart.com/ Tutorial https://wordart.com/tutorials
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Apps at Play Store Choose one, we suggested the first one, Word cloud.
Description https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ice.lenor.nicewordplacer.app Videotutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su6kmY51tHY
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A collage of moments
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