As the unit
is about Inventors and
Inventions, we are going to give some examples of activities that can be
used. We are not going to develop a lesson plan, only offer suggestions, ideas,
and so on.
Bearing in
mind the Icarus’ story, we can prepare easily
activities for showing understanding, and for talking about creativity: how
they had a problem and they tried to solve it. They can debate in groups about:
-Do you think that it
was a good solution? Why?
-What would you do if you
were Icarus?
-What would you do if
you were Daedalus?
They can draw o explain their solutions, there are not a
right one. When they finish, we can make a display with all the answers and
drawings.
I have designed an activity in power point about this topic, you can find the link on step 5.
As a tuning in, we ask them a question:
What would happen if we did not have televisions?
They can work in groups and share
their answers. From here we can reflect
about how inventions
make our life easier. There are people who try to make things that make our
life easier and funnier:
inventors. In this way, we are scaffolding
them through the stages.
Another activity, in the finding out stage, could be asking them to think about
famous inventions,
things that they have at home and are useful, and, if they can, some inventors. We have here a
power point with the activities that can be used.
1st.
We ask them to think and name as many inventions as possible.
2nd.They
talk in pairs about inventions
and try to recall inventors.
3rd.
We talk about inventions in
general, and ask them if they know any Spanish invention. Also if they can tell any inventor. We share this
information with the whole class
4th.
There is a slide con names and pictures of some inventions, they read them and we talk about
them.
5th.
Then we show them another slide with the names of these inventions and they should match them with
inventors. All
together reflect on women as inventors.
You can find
this power point in this link:
We want to
provide our students with positive female role models. With this in mind, we
can ask them to look for information about Spanish female inventors, telling them
about some cool inventions
made by women. The idea is that everybody can invent something. All of us can
create.
At the end,
in the sorting out stage, we can ask
them to invent something. In order to foster creativity, we think that it is
better if we would provide them with a frame. We can give them a problem that
was important for them, and ask for solutions; e.g. I have to go to a football
match in other town and our family car is not working. What can I invent/do…?
We hope that
you can find it useful.
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