Eleonora Picciau
Clil Unit on Blood: Components, Blood Types, Functions and Disease
Rationale
This unit is
aimed at students of fifth class of Liceo Scientifico, and covers one topic of the
curriculum of Science; the structure, the types, and functions/dysfunctions of blood.
The starting
material results from the combination of two different texts found in two
websites. The reason of this choice is due to the fact that the teacher wants
to give students a complete explanation of the topic.
These two
websites can be found at:
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Human+circulatory+system
(the
part drawn from the second website has been highlighted in blue)
In order to
support students’ learning, the document has been transformed and integrated
with interacting materials to visually and auditory help the learners.
Scaffolding stages
The original
text as 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, paragraph shortened and keywords formatted in bold.
Stage 2 - Transcoding
Whole
paragraphs have been transcoded into visuals, so as to simplify the
communication of the concepts.
Synonyms have
been added, further paragraphs have been reduced or eliminated.
In order to
support learning some interactive tests have been created. There 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 the students with the learning of new specific vocabulary a listening
and gap - filling activity has been created using an Audio
Editor and Hot Potatoes .
Assessment
The final
assessment test is based on some previous activities and……