Motivational video
Can you feel your heart?
Overview
This lesson has been develop for 4th graders and it is connected to science, where English works as a medium of instruction. Taking into account the importance of the heart, we consider neccesary to start instructing the little ones with information related to heart as they can go creating self counciousness regarding the neccesity of caring about our own hearts.
Quick Look
Grade: Level 4th
TIME REQUIRED: 40 minutes
Lesson Dependency: None
Subject Areas: Biology/English
Summary
SUMMARY:
This lessons aims to describe the importance of the heart, as well as how students should have in mind the necessity to take care of their hearts, giving them the opportunity to know the most common strategies they can implement in their daily life so as to protect their hearts. Also, throughout this lesson, students will be able to acknowledge some of the main parts of the heart and the way it works. By developing this lesson, students will develop socio cultural competencies, related to daily national health problems, about science, structure and function of the heart, as well as the English subject, being this last one the medium of instruction.
Science Connection
SCIENCE CONNECTION:
Using English as a medium of instruction may result in a very useful teaching tool. The heart it’s a very important part of our bodies and due to its important work it is also necessary to take care of it. That is why the students will learn some strategies as well as create new ones in pro of the protection of the heart, in a sense that may contribute to the public health system of our country.
Learning Objectives
LEARNING OBEJCTIVES:
Recognize the different parts that compose the human heart, as well as its function and its importance.
Develop citizenship competencies by promoting the importance of taking care of the heart in society.
Identify the main current problems related to national health issues
Educational Standards
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS:
- I recognize the importance of the human heart as well as some strategies to promote the care of their own and classmates.
- I analyze some vocabulary in ENGLISH related to the human heart, as well as the strategies that help to promote its care.
Materials
MATERIALS:
CARDBOARD, PLASTICINE, MARKERS, SCISSOR, COLORED PENCILS.
Motivation
MOTIVATION: For this stage of the class, T shows a song to the students and asks them to dance and sing. The song is related to body parts.
Find attached the link to the video at the end.
This section is important as it allows students to be more engaged in the class and paying close attention to the details. It is necessary that the teacher makes the topic more interesting, that is to say use a more dynamic sequence. This is necessary since students may get bored and frustrated if they do not understand anything. It is also necessary to monitor students in each of the stages of the class to check their work as well as questions that may emerge during the session. To make students feel more engaged with the topic, it is neccesary to check some of the strategies used to take of out hearts.
Lesson background and concepts for teachers
LESSON BACKGROUND AND CONCEPTS :
Find information related to the heart. (However, reading this long piece of information might be uninteresting for students, then it is necessary for the teacher to study a little about the heart before starting the lesson.
The Heart, Blood and Valves The heart is a four chambered, muscular organ (about the size of your fist) that pumps blood throughout the body. The vascular system is made up of arteries which carry blood away from the heart, capillaries where the exchange of gases and nutrients takes place between blood cells and body tissues, and veins which return deoxygenated blood to the heart. Together, these blood vessels provide an efficient delivery route for blood throughout the body. Blood cells are the actual vehicles that transport the nutrients and waste products. Blood also helps regulate body temperature and protects humans from bleeding to death after an injury occurs by creating a barrier or clot. Blood is made up of 5% plasma, 50% water, 44% red blood cells, and 1% white blood cells and platelets.
Heart Parts: The heart is divided in several parts, where each of the has a very complex task.
Lesson Closure
LESSON CLOSURE:
Making your own heart
For this stage of the class T asks students to make their own heart using plasticine.
After each student finishes their task, T asks students to put different ways to prevent heart diseases in a piece of cardboard. The heart and the cardboard are going to be used in another session, in which they will expose their creations and explanations.