Clil Unit on Cell division
Daniela Loja: Group Four
RATIONALE
this unit is aimed at students of second class of Liceo
Scientifico, and covers a topic of biology: the cell division. The
material has been manipulated and simplified. It has bee taken from the
web site:
http://www.synapses.co.uk/genetics/index.html
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.
Scaffolding stages
The original text has been elaborated in order help the students with visual, auditory and language support.
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 file
Stage 2 -Transcoding
Some paragraphs have been trascoded into visuals in order to simplify the concepts.
Stage 2 file
Stage 3 - Language support
Synonims have been added in brackets.
Stage 3 file
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 contents rather than linguistic features.
Assessment test