Stefania Pani

Clil Unit on Garbage Treatment

RATIONALE

This unit is aimed at students of third class of Middle School, and covers one topic of the curriculum of Natural Science: Garbage Treatment.
The starting material is an introduction to the topic, and it can be found at:

        http://www.kidsforfuture.net/ourfuture.html.pdf

In order to support students' learning, the document has been transformed and integrated with interactive materials to visually and auditory help the learners.

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 file

Stage 2 –Transcoding
Whole paragraphs have been transcoded into visuals, so as to simplify the communication of the concepts.

Stage 2 file

Stage 3 - Language support
Synonyms have been added, further paragraphs have been reduced or eliminated.

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 pronunciation of new technical terms, a listening and choosing activity has been created, using Hot Potatoes and an Audio Editor.

Tests

Assessment
The final assessment test is based on some previous activities and on a chart to be completed.

Assessment test