Mind Maps about LANDSCAPES (Science Year 5 - Unit 8)

Utilizando las TICs para repasar, una vez terminada la unidad sobre PAISAJES, el Paisaje, Montañas y LLanuras en España,  la Costa,  la Costa Española  trabajamos como siempre, realizamos nuestro mapa conceptual con Popplet.

Después los alumnos graban su explicación con la aplicación Screencast-O-Matic. 

Publican su entrada en su Portfolio Personal creado dentro de los blogs personales de Kidblog.

Y nos lo envían para poder corregirlo a través de la red social educativa de Edmodo.

Estos son los trabajos de los alumnos de esta unidad. 

Hugo's Mind Maps

Lucía's Mind Maps

Claudia's Mind Maps

María's Mind Maps

Carlos' Mind Maps

Mario's Mind Maps

Inés' Mind Maps

Teresa's Mind Maps

Andrés' Mind Maps

Javier's Mind Maps

Ángel's Mind Maps

Valeria's Mind Maps

Jon's Mind Maps

Rodrigo's Mind Maps

Aaron's Mind Maps

Andrea's Mind Maps

Pablo's Mind Maps

Jorge's Mind Maps

Evaluación Mind Maps about LANDSCAPES.

With this post you are going to evaluate your partner's videos and popplets following the rubric and answering to this questionaire.

Rubrica video popplets from Javier Ramos Sancha

When you finish reading the rubric and you have everything clear in your mind, you can start watching your partners video and answering the questions to evaluate it. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE CLEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR AND WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION.

Mind Maps about LANDSCAPES

You will send your evaluation through this Google Form. DON'T FORGET TO CLICK ON SUBMIT AT THE END.

To write the comments, you have to follow this pattern:

• REDACCIÓN EN KIDBLOG: Tienes … porque…
• ORGANIZACIÓN EN EL MIND MAP: Tienes … porque…
• ESTRUCTURA DEL TEXTO: Tienes … porque…
• ORTOGRAFÍA: Tienes … porque…
• TÉCNICA GRAMATICAL Y TIEMPOS VERBALES: Tienes … porque…
• VOZ Y RITMO: Tienes … porque…

SPANISH COAST.

With this video you will have a small idea about the SPANISH COASTLINE specially about the north coast. 

SPANISH COASTLINE.

Spain has more than 6.000 km of Coastlines.

• CANTABRIAN COAST: It has rocky cliffs, estuaries and gulfs.
• ATLANTIC COAST: In the northwest (Galicia) it is high and rocky with many estuaries. In the South (Gulf of Cadiz) it is low-lying and sandy.
• MEDITERRANEAN COAST: It is low-lying and sandy. Beaches are very long.
• CANARY ISLAND: In the Atlantic Coast but it varies greatly.
• BALEARIC ISLAND: In the Mediterranean Coast it has high coasts, but it also alternates with long beaches. 

LET'S PRACTICE YOUR KNOWLEGDE. 

We are going to finish all the topic about LANDSCAPES with a THINKING ROUTINE: GENERATE - SORT- CONNECT -ELABORATE. This is a routine to organize your understanding about this topic through a mind map.

GENERATE: You will have post-it or pieces of paper. You will write all the ideas that come to your mind when you think about LANDSCAPES. You will have 5 minutes.

SORT: Now it's time to sort the ideas with my partners. We are going to say to them what my ideas were and also we will place them depending on how much important they are. Central ideas will go in the center, tangencial ideas or examples will go in the sides. You will have another 5 minutes.

CONNECT: Once you have presented your ideas to the rest. Maybe some of your partners will have ideas which are the same as yours or they are very similiar, or just they have something in common. It would be great if you place all this ideas together. You have to explain (in English) how these ideas are connected. You will have 5 minutes. 

ELABORATE: Now it's the turn of the mind map. With all the process you will have lots of ideas but maybe you will need also to add new ideas and expand the ones your group has talked about. You will have 10 minutes for this. 

The Coast

We have learnt about the landscape in general and about the mountains and plains in Spain. Now it's time to focus our attention in the coas landscape. We will introduce this topic with the following chant. (Let's sing if you want). 

THE COAST:

The coast is the place where the land meets the sea.

There are two types of coast:

LOW-LYING COASTS: They are plains by the sea. They have sandy beaches. 

HIGH COASTS: They are high areas by the sea. They often have rocky cliffs.

LET'S THINK A MOMENT AND ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:

• Where can you see a high coast in Spain?
• Where can you see a low-lying coast in Spain?

TYPES OF COASTLINES:

A CAPE: It is land which extends into the sea.

A GULF: It is a place where the sea extends into the land.

A PENINSULA: It is land which is almost completely surrounded by water.

AN ISLAND: It is land which is completely surrounded by water.

AN ARCHIPELAGO: It is a group of islands.

AN ESTUARY: It is a part of a river which opens into the sea.

A MARSH:  It is wet land near the mouth of a river. 

LET'S PLAY TO FIX YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Mountains and plains in Spain.

We are going to start with a THINKING ROUTINE: THINK-PAIR-SHARE. 

• THINK: During 1 minute you will think on your own about what you have learnt about Landscapes. 
• PAIR: During 2 minutes you will talk with your partner about what you have thought. REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO TALK IN ENGLISH AND ALSO YOUR PARTNER, IF NOT YOU CAN SAY HIM OR HER. STOP! TALK TO ME IN ENGLISH.
• SHARE: You will say to the whole class what you have thought or rememebered about the Landscapes. With your ideas the teacher will create a mind map in the blackboard. You can use this mind map to add all the new information you will learn today. 

In this video you will have a look about the highest mountains in Spain:

• HAVE YOU EVER VISITED ANYONE OF THEM?
• I HAVE VISITED...........................................

MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS IN SPAIN

• Central Spain is dominated by a large plateau: CENTRAL PLATEAU. 
• CENTRAL PLATEAU is divided into two parts by CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN.
• THE PYRENEES is in the north it is the natural border with France.
• THE BETIC CHAIN  is a chain in the south of the Central Plateau
• Iberian Península has narrow coastal plains.
• There are two depressions:
• The Ebro Drepression in the north.
• The Guadalquivir depression in the south. 

LET'S PLAY A BIT TO FIX ALL WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNT.

The landscape

We will start with a new topic THE LANDSCAPES. We are going to start thinking using a THINKING ROUTINE: The traffic lights. 

Let's draw a traffic lights in your notebook or in your Thinking notebook. 

And now during 3 minutes you will think about all the things you have already known about LANDSCAPES. And then classify it into the three colours:

• GREEN: Write things you know and understand perfectly about LANDSCAPES.
• YELLOW OR ORANGE: You know and understand something but you will need some help to go deeper on this things about LANDSPCAPES.
• RED: You don't understand or get these things or you want to know more about it during the time we are going to look for it in Science lessons. 

Once you have clear what you know, we are going to have a look to this video about LANDSCAPES. 

• How many LANDFORMS does the video talk about?
• What are these landforms?
• Can you say me the definition at least of one of them?

THE LANDSCAPE

All the different features of the Earth's furfaces make up the landscape.

MOUNTAINS

MOUNTAINS are raised parts of the Earths's surface.

HILLS have lower altitude than mountains

Several mountains grouped togethere are called a MOUNTAIN RANGE. A long line of mountain ranges is called a  MOUNTAIN CHAIN

VALLEYS are low area between mountains. Rivers are often found in valleys.

PLAINS

They are large areas of flat lands with now hills or slopes.

A PLATEAU is a plain at a high altitude.

DEPRESSIONS are plains which are lower than the surrounding land.

COASTAL PLAINS are flat land near the coast. 

Let's practice all what you have learn during your Science lesson. Remember IT'S IMPORTANT TO PRACTICE TO FIX THE KNOWLEGDE IN YOUR MIND.