Exploring space

Long-term plan unit:

Unit 6. Explorers & Inventors

Gymnasium № 41

Date: 12.02-14.02

Teacher’s name: Perzadaeva A.R.

Grades: 3 A, B, V, G, D, E, I

Number present:

absent:

Theme of the lesson: Exploring space

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

3.R5 understand the main points of short simple texts on a limited range of familiar general and some curricular topics by using contextual clues

3.R6 understand with considerable support, some specific information and detail in short, simple texts on a limited range of general and some curricular topics

3.W2 write words and phrases of regular size and shape

Lesson objectives

Pronounce familiar words and short phrases clearly

Understand some specific information

Write words

Success criteria

• matches words with pictures

• solves crossword

• reads the text

ICT skills

no ICT

Previous learning

Exploring space

Plan

Time

Planned activities

Resources

Beginning

3 min

5 min

Organizational moment

Teacher greets students; students respond to greeting and take their places.

Good afternoon? Glad to see you.

How are you?

What day is it today?

What date is it today?

What is the weather like today?

Teacher presents lesson objectives to students

Warming up

(W) Learners take cards read them and arrange planets according their position from the sun.

cards with words

10 min

Start up activity:

[P] “Scrambled Sentences”

Pupils working in pairs follow teachers’ directions to unscramble the sentence.

bur Xolbar Xyxtzbm hax zight planztx. Thz xubn ix at thbz czntzbr of thz Xolar Xyxtzbm.

1. Change all the x’s to s’s.

2. Cross off all the b’s.

3. Change all the z’s to e’s.

4. Add capital O to the beginning of the first word.

Answer: Our Solar System has eight planets. The sun is at the center of the Solar System.

worksheets

Middle

20 min

(I) Students working individually solve crossword about planets.

(W)Energizer:

Stand up! Clap! Clap!

Arms up! Clap! Clap!

Step! Step! Arms down!

Clap! Clap! Please, sit down

(I, f) Students read the text to the teacher about the Solar System.

Our Solar System has eight planets. The sun is at the center of the Solar System. The sun is a star. A star is a hot ball of gas.

Mercury is the first planet from the sun. This is a small, hot and rocky planet.

Venus is the second closest planet from the sun. Venus is rocky, cloudy, windy and very hot.

We live on the Earth, the third planet from the sun. Earth is rocky and has a lot of water.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Mars is a rocky, red planet.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. This planet is a gas giant. It has four rings.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. This gas giant has seven beautiful rings made of ice, dust and rocks.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. It is a light-blue gas giant. Uranus is very cold and windy.

Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. This is a light-blue gas giant. This planet is very cold.

Criteria of assessment:

- reads the text without support

- reads the text with a little support

- reads the text with a huge support

cards with crossword

cards with text

End

2 min

(I) Wrap-up.

Card for reflection