Topic: Ecology – a repetition lesson

Target group

8th‑grade students of elementary school

Core curriculum

New core curriculum

General requirements

I. Knowledge of biological diversity and basic biological phenomena and processes. Student:

2. explains biological phenomena and processes occurring in selected organisms and in the environment.

Specific requirements

VII. Ecology and environmental protection. Student:

1. indicates the living and non‑living elements of the ecosystem and shows that they are related to various dependencies.

General aim of education

The student repeats knowledge and vocabulary in the area of the section: Ecology

Key competences

• communication in the mother tongue;

• communication in foreign languages;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• to ask questions and answer your friends' questions about ecology;

• to consolidate the material from the lessons: „Ecological factors”, „Water and thermoregulation, water as a living environment”, „Oxygen”, „Light”, „Temperature”;

• to consolidate the vocabulary related to the theme of ecological.

Methods/techniques

• expository

  • talk.

• activating

  • discussion.

• exposing

  • exposition.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• activity in groups;

• collective activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;

• interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers.

Lesson plan overview

Before classes

• Before the planned repetitive lesson, the teacher asks all students to recall the material of the e‑textbook from the lesson: „Water and thermoregulation, water as a living environment”, and the selected ones, to prepare a crossword based on the mechanism of the abstract for colleagues to work during the lesson.

Introduction

• The teacher gives the topic, the goals of the lesson in a language understandable for the student, and the criteria of success.

• The students, selected by the teacher, refer the lesson they read at home before the classes.

Realization

• Students, using the mechanism included in the abstract, prepare a test question for a friend.

• Students display interactive crosswords on the interactive board. The task of the others is to guess individual passwords. After each crossword, students assess the questions based on the technique of lights (whether they are clear, logically formulated). The teacher assesses questions in terms of language and provides feedback.

• Paraphrasing. Depending on the language level of the students, the teacher uses the recording „Oxygen” for language exercises. The chosen student tells the content of the recording or its fragment, changing the time of the story (eg from past to present or future) or by changing the mode (eg from the declaring to the ordering person).

• Asking questions. Students use the form to write questions addressed to a friend in order to check the understanding of the text being heard.

• On the interactive board students themselves create a note about the adaptation to life of selected organisms at different temperatures.

• Students, working alone or in pairs, perform tasks indicated by the teacher.

Summary

• At the end of the class, the teacher asks students to perform a glossary exercise that will help them to consolidate the vocabulary learned during the lesson.

Homework

• Prepare 5 questions about the area that could be found on the test of the lesson.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Ecology – a repetition lesson

Links to lessons: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Links to abstracts: 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5

Before you begin solving the exercises, review abstracts „Ecological factors”, „Water and thermoregulation, water as a living environment”, „Oxygen”, „Light”, „Temperature” to recall the most important information and vocabulary. Then you will be able to check your knowledge. Good luck!