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Grade: 7

Focus: Remembering

Subject: Social science, Geography

Topic: Countries and capitals

From the Norwegian curriculum after year 7:

Social science:

“Bruke atlas, hente ut informasjon frå papirbaserte temakart og digitale karttenester og plassere nabokommunane, fylka i Noreg, dei tradisjonelle samiske områda og dei største landa i verda på kart”.(Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013)

English: “forstå og bruke et ordforråd knyttet til kjente emner”. (Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013)

Specific Objectives:

1: "Be able to know many of the countries and capitals in the world."

2: "Know the English names for many countries and cities."

Into: In my into stage the teacher will have the student guess what the lesson is about. The teacher write down keywords related to the countries and capitals on the board, like: Sweden, India, Beijing, Stockholm, and the class will try and guess based on previous knowledge. The teacher will start with the more difficult key words first and and then write down easier ones if they are not able to guess.

Through: In the through stage, the students will first get time to study atlases and learn new world capitals and countries. After this, the students will go to Flinga.fi and write in as many boxes with country and capital they know, everyone`s answers will be visible to the whole class. The students will be told that if a country+capital is already written, there's no need to write more times. Everything must be written in English.The reason to use flinga.fi is that everything the students write is visible to the whole class. It can be fun and motivating for the students to see the collective knowledge of the whole class and then it can be viewed as a form of team work.

Beyond: In the beyond the stage students will go in pairs and use their new knowledge to quiz another student on capitals and countries they know, e.g “Where is Vienna the capital?”.

Assessment: To assess if the learning objectives are met, the teacher will look at what the students write in flinga and listen to the students quiz each other in the beyond stage.

Reflection: A challenge might be that some students might write down non-subject related things when using flinga. Flinga is anonymous, so some students might be tempted to joke around. But a positive thing is that the teacher is able to be moderator and delete inappropriate answers.                   

Literature:

Utdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i engelsk (ENG1-03). Accessed from:

https://www.udir.no/kl06/ENG1-03/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-10.-arstrinn

Utdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i samfunnsfag (SAF1-03). Accessed from: https://www.udir.no/kl06/SAF1-03/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-7.-arssteget