#11 Second Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / Volunteering / Grade 6

#11 Second Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / Volunteering / Grade 6

Overall Objective: Students will develop awareness of volunteerism. They will use new vocabulary connected with volunteering and propose the solution of problems.

Language Objective: Students will learn new words: garbage, litter, waste, rubbish, clean, pollute.

Civic Education Objective: Students will develop awareness of why it is important to participate in environment cleaning project and show their own way of solving the problem.

Curriculum Connection: They will connect new vocabulary and reading skills of previously learnt materials.

Class Context and Needs: The students are motivated and ready  for improvement.

Materials:  LCD projector, handouts, word-map, pen, pencils and paper.

Activities: Warm Up, Pre-teaching vocabulary, reading, group work.

Assessment: Students will be given oral commentaries.

Overall Objective: Students will develop awareness of volunteerism. They will use new vocabulary connected with volunteering and propose the solution of problems. Language Objective: Students will learn new words: garbage, litter, waste, rubbish, clean, pollute. Civic Objective: Students will develop awareness of why it is important to participate in environment cleaning project and show their own way of solving the problem.
Stage of Lesson	Activity	Time
Warm Up	Show students the PPT in order to find out what volunteerism means. They watch the presentation and answer the questions.	5 min
Activity 1	Watch the video about volunteerism that defines the meaning of volunteerism.	3 min
Activity 2	Pre-teach vocabulary and ask students working in pairs make T charts to define the problem and its solution.	10 min
Activity 3	Group work:  Divide class into 4 groups and give each group task, they should write at least 4-5 sentences about the topic. Children make posters “Make it cleaner” and write their own solution to the problem with drawing (if they want to).	10 min
Activity 4	Students make presentations at the board and expose them to the class.	4 min
Activity 5	Read the text in detail	5 min
Activity 6	Students make post reading activity true and false	5 min
Assessment	Students will be given commentaries	3 min

A Big Clean Up George Age: 14 California ,USA After the storm (Hurricane Catherine) I noticed what a mess was in the school yard   on that day. Then a few friends and my family members decided to organize a huge clean up of the field. There were many tree limbs down and rubbish   around the territory. We worked at moving and collecting   the rubbish to one area so that was a great help for the community. Besides, we had fun doing it too. The school authorities were very appreciative of our efforts, and so were the citizens. It made the clean up in city easier for everyone!

True or False:

       1.       George cleaned up the house.                                                             ______

       2.       George did not organize the group to clean up after the storm.  ______

       3.       There were not any rubbish in the field                                            ________

       4.       School authorities helped George and they cleaned up.               ________

       5.       It was fun to clean up the field.                                                         _________

Fill in the gap:

      1.       . __________a few friends and family members and we did a huge clean up of the field.

      2.       There were many tree _____ down and rubbish all over the place.

      3.       George and his friends worked at moving all the _______ __to one area.

      4.       George noticed what a _____ the field was at my school.

       5.     The school was very ____________ of our efforts, and so was the town.



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