| Time needed for the activity: | approx 10 minutes |
| Students profile/age of the student: | 6-12 years old… |
| Climate change topic | Food and drinking shortage |
| Connected subject in the curriculum | English, Music |
| Skills and competencies to be developed | content knowledge, listening skills, critical thinking |
| Terminology, keywords | Seed, soil, water, air |
| Teaching techniques and tools: | Warm up activity |
| Methodological recommendations for the implementation | Learning and singing a song together is not only a fun activity for students, who learn English through this song, but it also allows students to memorize information about how plants grow in a pleasant way. |
| Materials needed: | – Pc, – speaker, – wi-fi connection, – projector |
| Materials offered | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGrDl5_zrc |
Activity description, instructions for teachers
Prepare a copy of the song lyrics to give to each student.
Listen to the song together once and then analyze and translate the lyrics together.
Try singing it all together.
You can ask the students to study it at home, and before or at the end of each lesson you can take five minutes to sing it together.
Use this song to introduce a reflection about what could happen to plants if one of the elements presented in the song would be absent.
| Source: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGrDl5_zrc |
| Additional links: | https://www.pinterest.it/pin/577445983449630185/ |
Food and drinking shortage/What do Plants Need to Grow? – Song