Stefania Marras

Unit 2

 " The Sun"


RATIONALE

This unit  is aimed at students of fifth class of Liceo Scientifico, and covers one topic of the curriculum of Science: The solar system - The Sun . In order to support students' learning, the document has been transformed and integrated with interactive materials in order to visually and auditorily help the learners

The starting material is an introducion to The Sun , and it can be found at: 

 http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/solar_system/sun.htm


Scaffolding stages

The original text has undergone three different stages of elaboration in order to offer visual, auditory and language support to the students


Stage 1 - Text formatting

Paragraphs or sentences carrying secondary information have been removed. Headings have been provided, paragraphs shortened and keywords formatted in bold.

Stage 1  

Stage 2 -Transcoding


Whole paragraphs have been transcoded into visuals, so as to simplify the communication of the concepts.  Further paragraphs have been reduced or eliminated.  
 
Stage 2


Stage 3 - Language support

A Glossary and a Revision corner (comics strip)  have been added.

Stage 3

Activities

In order to support learning some interactive tests have been created. Their purpose is to have students do something with the new concepts been taught to them.

The  tests have been gathered into a Tests Table of Contents, and it is possible to navigate from one to the other.

In order to support students with the pronounciation of new technical terms, a listening and choosing activity has been created, using an Audio Editor, an Online Dictionary and Hot Potatoes.

Tests

Assessment

The final assessment test is based on some previous activities .

Assessment





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