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Strategic Partnership Project (Key action no 2)
“ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH FORMAL
AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION” (ACEAFNE)
CURRICULUM INTEGRATED ACTIVITY
LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL
DATE
TEACHER
CLASS
SUBJECT
CURRICULAR COVERAGE
TOPIC OF THE LESSON
TIME
Lanchester EP Primary School (England)
Spring Term 1 2016
Peter Taylor
Year 6
Computing (Life on Land: 15 ~ Rainforests)
Computing / Geography
Reseraching rainforests around the world
1 hour (formal lesson)
OBJECTIVES
 Children to use internet to research facts about 3 different rainforests around the world.
TEACHING STRATEGIES
 Presentation
 Partner talk
 Independent work
 ICT use - laptops
TEACHING METHOD
 Whole class
 Partner task
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
 What is a rainforest? Run through PPT presentation which describes what a rainforest is.
 Use maps and images to stimulate further.
 Explain task and demonstrate using the internet to find facts.
 Task: Chn to work in pairs on laptops to research facts and images about a rainforest and
to put these into a word document. Chn to the present their research to the rest of the
class.
ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT
 Great internet research – some excellent facts found.
 Some very confident presentation at the end of the lesson.
STUDENTS‟ IMPACT *

Chn now with more knowledge of what rainforests are and chn also developed their
internet research skills and confidence when presenting to an audience.
CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE STUDENTS‟ BEHAVIOUR, INTEREST, ACTIVITY:
 Chn were very engaged.
 Chn love laptop based learning so behavior was excellent.
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