Grade 10
Focus: Understanding
Subject: Social science, Geography
Topic: Global poverty
From Norwegian curriculum after year 10:
Social science:
“kartleggje variasjonar i levekår i ulike delar av verda, forklare dei store skilnadene mellom fattige og rike og drøfte tiltak for jamnare fordeling” (Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013).
English: "lese, forstå og vurdere ulike typer tekster av varierende omfang om forskjellige emner" (Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013)
Specific objectives:
1.Be able to explain the main causes of global poverty in the world.
2.Be able to understand texts about global poverty and summarize the main ideas in English.
Into: To activate the students prior knowledge about the topic the teacher will make a mind map on the board and ask the students what they know about global poverty and its causes and write it down.
Through: In this activity the students will be learning about global poverty and its causes, and write blog posts. The students will at first read articles about poverty from reliable sources on bibsonomy.org added by the teacher. After the reading the student will create their own blogs on blogger.com and write a blog post about at least three causes of global poverty. So, they have to be able to use their own words to write summaries about what causes global poverty. The reason why the student`s will use blogger.com to make a blog is because it`s very easy to create your own blog there and write posts. Also, it can feel more personal to write blog posts, so the students might feel more of an ownership to the topic they are writing about,
Beyond: In the beyond activity the students will write a hypothetical letter to editor of a opinion section of a newspaper and use their newly acquired knowledge to write about the importance of reducing poverty and the different ways global poverty can be reduced.
Assessment: To assess the work of the students, the teacher will access all the blogs of the students and read their summaries and comment on them.
Reflection: When the students write blog posts, a problem might be that some might be tempted to copy paste their summaries from somewhere on the web, so the the teacher has to be weary of that. The teacher also need to be very familiar with this specific blogging site and how to use it, since students might encounter difficulties with how to write blog posts and formatting. Also, as a teacher one could have made the students find information purely by themselves without adding articles for them to read on bibsonomy. But at the same time, some students might struggle to find reliable information on the internet, therefore it can be beneficial to help the students out so they don't spend too much time on finding relevant information.
Literature:
Utdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i engelsk (ENG1-03). Accessed from:
https://www.udir.no/kl06/ENG1-03/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-10.-arstrinnUtdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i samfunnsfag (SAF1-03)
I think you have chosen an important and interesting topic for the lesson, which students will benefit from learning about. I think it is interesting that you have chosen blogs as the main tool, and it would have been fun to see how the students react to this. I also like that the students write a fictional letter to an editor in order to enlighten this topic. However, I wonder, what is the goal with the letter? Is it to be presented, or assessed? Even though, as this is an important issue, I would consider trying this in my own class.
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