Week 11 - Integrated Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Title:   Typical Latin American Dish

Topic To Teach: Learning vocabulary in Spanish that is associated with the topics of food and food preparation in connection with technology.

Concept : This lesson plan is authentic and provides a connection for the students with Latin-American culture. This plan has connections with other subjects such as geography, math and biology.  In this way, the students will be able to learn the products to create their own dish recognizing the basic ingredients. 

Standards Addressed: Content Area – Foreign Language Learning

National: Communication 1.2

            Connections 3.1

State: 7.1.IL.B.1 Use digital tools to partipate in short conversations and to exchange information related to targeted themes. 

General Goal(s):

·         All students will be able to learn and use vocabulary effectively

·         All students will have visual Power Point to help them to see different products and learn about them. The students will be connecting to a student website where they will exchange a conversation about favorite foods with students of a  Latin American country.     

Specific Objectives:

·         The students will be able to adequately use the computer, to have connection with students from other country.

·         With this lesson, the students will learn colors, textures, places where the products come from and share their own experiences about food.

·         The students will be able to identify different objects and textures to become aware of the sensitivity of their 5 senses.

·         The students will be able to learn about other cultures and how they prepare they food.

·         The students will be able to effectively use oral and written Spanish to communicate

Required Materials: Power Point, activity paper, Websites, scissors and glue

Anticipatory Set (Lead-In): The lesson will start with the teacher asking the students about their favorite hamburger. The students start to describe the ingredients that they prefer with their hamburgers. This introductory activity will help the teacher to enroll the students in the main activity by getting them to think about all of the components in food preparation.

Procedures: Using the Power Point, the teacher shows the country and products that are used  the country’s typical and traditional dish. At the same time she asks for colors and shapes of the ingredients. Then, the students have to sit to make a half circle. The teacher gives paper bags to the students. They have to introduce their hands without looking inside the bag to guess what is inside and say the texture that they feel. After that, the teacher shows in the Power Point the products that they touched in the prior activity. She explains what the climate is and type of tree where these products come from. Next, the teacher shows in the Power Point different kind of styles of the same typical dish.

Plan for Independent Practice:  In groups of 3 students, the teacher gives each 2 papers. One is of a picture of a plate. The second has all the different ingredients that the students learned about in class. They have to cut out the ingredients that they would like to include in their typical dish, and paste it to their blank plate.

Closure (Reflect Anticipatory Set): After of prior activity, the students have to present their own dish to the class.

Next class: The students will have the opportunity to connect with other students from the original country from which the typical dish was learned. They can talk about different kinds of food and the favorite  typical dishes of each country. 

Week # 7 - PodCast in the classroom

One of the ways that I can use podcasting in my
Spanish class is to create some podcasts at the beginning of the semester to
help students with specific and difficult homework. It is possible that many
parents are not bilingual and it will be very difficult for them help their
child with the homework.

Another way to use podcasting is to create an activity with
my own class to make a Podcast of a cultural topic, and post it on the internet
to share with other students of other schools. For this activity, the students
will learn the process to create a PodCast and then create one by them selves; so
the activity will be completely participatory.

The specific skill to apply to 21^st century
education programs is to promote creativity and make tough circumstances to
push the students to solve problems. I am sure by creating the activity to
develop a podcast to share with other schools the students will use their
creativity to have a good final product.

Technology of PodCasting

What is PodCasting? PodCasting is a wonderful tool to use in
the 21^st Century education program. It helps teachers and students
to be in contact continually no matter where they are. The only important thing
is to have access to any device that allows them to connect online.
There are different ways to create a Podcast. One way that a
lot of people use to see tutorials and instructional videos is to go to YouTube
and search “How to create a Podcast”. Immediately many videos appear that help
you to understand how to create a podcast. I researched some of them but
unfortunately not one of these videos were complete or had full information to
help novice people that are trying to use this kind of technology. For example:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rz0jSXvG8&feature=related   this video was created for an English man,
who was speaking so fast and moving the mouse so quickly that it was impossible
stay on track with his instructions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IBSseAJlk&feature=related  this man has been working for many years in PodCasting.
At the beginning, the video is very interesting because he gave a lot of advice
on how to produce podcasting but not an easy way to make a PodCast for people
with no prior knowledge

I checked some others videos but none help beginners to
create a podcast. It is possible that a good PodCast is not created yet to help
people to create PodCast.

To create my own Podcast, I followed the instructions exactly
that Professor Bigsby sent in the weekly assignment for week #5. It really was
very fun to make, even though I had some little problems embedding it in to the
Blogger.

In my opinion the strengths to create a Podcast and use this
tool with the students, is to help them to be updated on everything that occurs
in class. For example, if the student gets sick and has to miss class, the
teacher can help the student by sending him a podcast with a recap of the
activities that were done in class. Another goo activity according to the
article that I read, is to create a PodCast with the students to share with the
community.

The weakness of this technology, if it is not organized

enough, it that won’t be understandable and all the work to create it will be a
waste of time.

Second, to be connected with this type of technology, it requires
at least a basic computer. It could create an uncomfortable situation between
students who have a computer and do not. If not everybody has access to the
technology at home, it will be difficult to create a good connection this way.