Title: Information relay

Lesson plan elaborated by: Magdalena Trysińska

Topic:

Acquisition and transfer of information.

Target group:

5th‑grade students of an eight‑year elementary school.

Core curriculum

I. Literary and cultural education.

2. Receipt of cultural texts. Student:

1) identifies the statement as an informational, journalistic or advertising text;

2) searches in the text for information expressed directly and indirectly;

5) distinguishes between important and secondary information contained in the text;

6) distinguishes facts about the opinion.

II. Language education.

3. Language communication and language culture. Student:

1) identifies the text as a message; distinguishes the types of messages: information, literary, advertising, iconic.

III. Creating statements.

1. Elements of rhetoric. Student:

4) selects information.

IV. Self‑study. Student:

1) perfect quiet and loud reading;

2) improves various forms of saving the obtained information;

3) uses information contained in various sources, gathers messages, selects information;

7) develops the ability to critically evaluate the information obtained;

9) develops the ability to effectively use information technology and online resources and uses these skills to present their own interests.

The general aim of education

Students develop skills of effective information transfer and acquisition.

Key competences

• communication in the mother tongue;

• communication in foreign languages;

• learning to learn;

• social and civic competences.

Operational objectives

Student:

• tells what information and communication is;

• lists various sources of information and gives you the information you can find in them;

• reads the information contained in the popular science text;

• selects information;

• transmits information to the other person effectively.

Teaching methods / techniques

• problematic: directed conversation;

• programmed: using a computer and e‑textbook;

• practical: subject exercises, work with text.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• collective activity;

• group activity.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher determines the purpose of the classes, which is effective acquisition and transfer of information. It gives students the criteria for success.

2. The teacher offers students to play Chinese whispers (Exercise 1). It sets out the rules of play and reminds us that we pass the sentence only once. It is important that the phrase contains, for example, unknown words to the pupils, it was long and difficult to pronounce, eg. Pod Szczebrzeszynem na trzęsawisku dwa chrząszcze brzmiały w jeziornym sitowiu.

After the game has finished, it will be necessary to summarise and consider why the sentence has been distorted:

• How was the play?

• Has the sentence been well heard?

• What disturbed the message?

• Did you understand all the words?

• How did you feel when you did not understand the sentence?

The teacher asks if the information transfer can be compared to the relay (exercise 3).

Realization

1. What is information? Students perform exercises 2 and 4 in abstract and form the definition of the word information based on their observations. The teacher corrects imprecise answers. He/she tells that information can be true or false, and that information is given to the knowledge of who gives it, and the ignorance of whoever does not have it.

2. Information sources. The teacher asks what sources of information students know. Then he asks them to do the 5th task from the e‑manual.

3. The teacher divides the class into four‑person groups. In groups, students share tasks: each person deals with one paragraph of W. Kopaliński's text „Bread” (in abstract).

Diagram of work organization:

I. STAGE OF WORK
Class division into 4‑person teams, in which:
The first person will deal with paragraph 1, the second with paragraph 2, the third with paragraph 3 and the fourth with paragraph 4.

II. STAGE OF WORK
Each person in the group works on one paragraph of the text by W. Kopaliński. Her task is to answer the following questions.

First person:

• What can you make bread of?

• When in the history did people start baking bread?

• What ingredients are needed to bake bread?

Second person:

• When and who invented the leaven?

• What ingredients were used to enhance the taste of bread?

• What did the first baking ovens look like?

The third person:

• Where does the legend of Enkindu come from?

• How did Enkindu become a human?

• What did Akkadians think about eating bread?

The fourth person:

• Where does the tradition of breaking the bread come from?

• How did Jews respect bread?

• What symbolises the bread for Christians?

III. STAGE OF WORK
Students working with the same paragraph merge into groups and check that each of them has all the information from their fragment recorded.

IV. STAGE OF WORK
Students return to their groups and provide each other with information from their notes. Władysław Kopaliński's text reach only when the fragment needs to be quoted. Each member of the group should obtain the information contained in each of the four paragraphs of the text „Bread”.

4. After completing the task, students read the entire text. They check if each group has been able to provide all the information about the text.

5. The last part of the text contains a description of traditions related to bread from different cultures. Based on text, students solve exercise 7 from e‑textbook.

Summary

1. As a summary, students perform exercise 8 and a graph in the abstract.

2. The teacher asks students to evaluate their work during the lesson and the level of understanding of the material discussed. He can use the interactive board included in the abstract. In addition, he asks the students questions:

• What may interfere with the transmission of information?

• How can you ensure that the information is transmitted accurately?

Homework

Write a 5‑sentence information that you would like to pass on to people from the future (eg in 200 years).

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Information relay