ACTIVITY 1:

1. Author/Theory discussed: we have chosen Organicism World Viewbecause it

is the one focused into relationships and interconnections between different
parts understanding all of them as a unity. Secondly, we have related our
activity with this World View because we pretend to work different parts
separately and then unify them.
Moreover, this activity is based in the way the students connect all their mind
maps when they put them in common.
Finally, the aim of this activity is to outline the importance of being aware of the
different points of view and not only to develop a conceptual map.
2. Title:Learning water cycle through mind maps
3. Activity 1:This activity consists on teaching the water cycle using mind maps.
First, the teacher is going to explain the theory to the whole class. After it, the
students must have to develop a mind map using the material provided by the
teacher. He or she will give many little cardboard to the students and they will
have to connect them. These cardboards will be in blank, so they are bound to
fill them and build a mind map however they want. After that, the students, in
groups of 4 or 5, are going to explain their mind map to the others trying to be
aware of the different ways they are able to explain the same concept.

4. Objectives for this activity

Acquire knowledge
Be able to connect the concepts explained in class
Develop a topic through a mind map
To be critic with their own and the others work.
Discuss and accept different points of view.
5. Materials needed
Science book
Mind maps material: poster board, glue, scissors, crayons, markers,
pencil, rubber, pens
6. Methods:
Class distribution: At the beginning of the class the students will attend the
teachers explanation. Secondly, the students must do their own mind map
using material provided by the teacher. Finally, divided in groups of 4 or 5
students, they will have to discuss and explain to the other members of the
group how they have built their own mind map
Time and Space:
For how long this topic will be taught? This activity is going to
take two hours. In the first session, the teacher is going to
explain the theory to the students and after it, they will be given

time to develop the conceptual map (if they do not finish it in

class, they can do it at home). In the second session, they will be
organised in groups to discuss it.
Where are you planning to locate the work done? In regular
class.
7. Evaluation: How are you going to evaluate each of the activities?
0-5
Mind map
evaluation

Discussion

Attitude

The student has

NOT reached the
main concepts of
this activity
The student has
NOT discuss much
about their mind
map and has not
been critic with the
others opinion
The students
participation has
been inadequate

5-8

8 -10

The student has

interiorized the main
concepts of this activity

The student has interiorized

the main concepts of this
activity and has also go in
depth with it

The student has discuss

about their mind map
properly but has not
been critic enough

The student has discuss

about their mind map and
has been critic with the
others opinion

The students
participation has been
continuous but has only
provide general
concepts

The students participation

has been plentiful and has
go in depth with the main
concepts

8. Self-criticism: In what 3 ways this activity should be easily improved?

Use digital devices in order to make the theory more comprehensible.
Organize educational tours and practices to improve the understanding
of the main concepts.
Have the possibility to work in big spaces in order to discuss better and
to work more comfortable.

ACTIVITY 2:

1. Author/Theory discussed:
John Dewey is the main educator in the United States Education system. He is
also the most important educator in the 20th century.
Dewey applies principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience in
education to get new knowledge and to make it last forever. He emphasizes
that experiences with aesthetic qualities, in other words, we live lots of
experiences but only the ones which are really important, thats to say, the ones
which are crucial, could educate us as persons. Experience is defined as the
vital sense through situations and episodes, spontaneously. In contextualism,
everything is related by emotion. Experience with an aesthetic quality is
contextualism as its purest form. We have personal stories that we can easily
go back through them and talk about them. They are the most meaningful
experiences to have.
So, as teachers, if we can create experiences with aesthetic qualities, students
will learn properly and we will be able to let them build up themselves through
these meaningful moments.
According to that, we have organized an activity trying to create a memory in
the students mind that they will never forget. What is really important for us is
not only to acquire students learning, furthermore, to produce a shocking
experience.
2. Title: Gone with the wind.
3. Activity 2:
Firstly, the class will be organized in five different groups of 4 5 students.
Each group is going to work one of the cultures present in our society. The
teacher is going to give five different options of cultures in the world
(Occidental, Arab, Oriental, South-America and Central Africa). Once the group
has its culture allocated, they will be given an hour to find out information about
it in the I.T class.
They will have to sum up the information they have found in different mind
maps (constructing them as they want).
The following day, each group will have to present in front of the classroom the
topic they have worked. This project, in fact, is not going to be expounded
nor evaluated. The teacher is going to tell them that the project has almost
finished and s/he will give them the opportunity to throw all their work through
the window. During this process, the teacher will be taking photos of it in order
to share with the children all the work they have done and how they have
cooperated with one another. The students should know that the result is
not even remotely the most important, but the process is what really makes
them learn.
4. Objectives for this activity:
- Learn about different cultures which are present in our society

5.
-

Work in groups so that they share their knowledge.

Make children see that the importance of education is not to be evaluated and
achieve a good mark but learn.
Make children aware that the work they have done has not been useless, it
has also made them grow as a group as a person and improve their level of
learning.
Materials needed
Computers
School materials: pencil, papers, crayons
Camera and projector

6. Methods:
Class distribution: the students will be organized in five different groups of 4
5 depending on how many children will be in class.
o Time and Space:
For how long this topic will be taught?
Where are you planning to locate the work done?
This activity will be divided in two sessions.
will be at the computer class.

In the first

one,

they

There, they will have tosearch the information needed in order to ela
borate their mindmap.In the second one, they will be in their classroo
m where theyare supposed to present their project.
7. Evaluation
As we have said, there will be no specific evaluation in this activity. However the
teacher will have to take many aspects into consideration following the table below.
CAPACITY
OF
WORKING IN
GROUPS

The members of the

group have organised
themselves properly
with no problems

The members of the

groups have organized
themselves with many
problems

ABILITY OF
SYNTHESIS

The group have done a

correct synthesis about
the topic and they have
talked about everything
related to it

The group have done a

correct synthesis about
the topic but they have
missed many important
information related to it

ATTITUDE

The group have worked

well with an actively
participation

The group have worked

correctly but with a
passively participation

The members of the

group have NOT
organized
themselves. They
have worked as if
they were not a group
The group have done
an inappropriate
synthesis of the
information related to
the topic
The group have
worked with an
inadequate attitude in
class

8. Self-criticism: In what 3 ways this activity should be easily improved?

-

Give the students the possibility to talk with a person belonging to the culture
they are studying.
Provide the students a summary of the main concepts of each culture.

It could be better to work in a multicultural class in order to have dierentpoints

of view.