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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
English (Life on Land: 15 ~ Rainforests)
English / Geography
Persuasive writing
1 hour (formal lesson)
OBJECTIVES
 Children to write a persuasive piece to persuade people to help stop deforestation of the
rainforests
TEACHING STRATEGIES
 Presentation
 Example text
 Partner talk
 Independent work
 Video clip
TEACHING METHOD
 Whole class
 Independent task
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
 What dangers are there to rainforests? Discuss in pairs then feedback.
 Run through PPT which explains deforestation of the rainforests.
 Show video clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllU9NEcJyg to show time lapse of
deforestation of Amazon Rainforest.
 Discuss video in pairs then as a class.
 Mindmap ideas for „AGAINST‟ deforestation.
 Read example text which is a persuasive piece against deforestation.
 Task: Chn to work independently to write a persuasive text against deforestation using
what they have learnt this lesson.
ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT
 Excellent lesson to really show the chn the impact of deforestation
STUDENTS‟ IMPACT *
 Greater knowledge of deforestation and also improved their persuasive writing skills.
CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE STUDENTS‟ BEHAVIOUR, INTEREST, ACTIVITY:
 Chn found video clip very impactful – some great discussion followed this.
 Some excellent pieces of persuasive writing.
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