MACHINES HELP PEOPLE

MACHINES HELP PEOPLE

This didactic unit is designed to be carried out in the first year of primary school at the end of the third term. It is developed in eight sessions and contents of the natural sciences subject are studied.

OBJECTIVES:

• Machines: observation of machines and how they work and how they make life easier 
• Recognise the difference between simple and complex machines.
• Recognise certain professions by the machines they use.
• Understand the importance of personal safety when using machines.

 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SESSIONS:

1 Session : presentation and familiarization of the vocabulary. Use the games: where is it? and what's missing?
Flash cards.

2 Session:Work in pairs using the question and answer cards and the image cards. Vocabulary is consolidated with these activities and structures are worked on. 

Question and answers cards.
Image cards

3 Session: Work the content on the machines watching the video and stopping at key moments. 

Simple and complex machines

4 Session: Classify objects into simple and complex machines.

Classify

5 Session:Recognize the spelling of the vocabulary.
Match1.
Match2
Alphabet soup.

6 Session : Recognize what machines are used in different jobs through the song and perform the activity "multiple choice" on the professions. 
Song. 
Multiple choice

7 Session: Know the dangers of electricity and talk about them.
Video

8 Session: By groups, observe and manipulate a simple machine and a complex one. Then they present the observed in groups, following the script:

          It´s a ………..                                   it´s a simple machine

          It´s a ……….                                    It´s a hammer

        A …………..uses a …..............        a carpenter uses a hammer.

NOTE: As this unit is worked at the end of the term, once finished and if there is time, a craft can be carried out. I propose we make a pulley made with recycled material. Here I leave the necessary material to realize it. MATERIALS

Here I leave the link to the final template of the unit, with all the links to access the proposed activities and the materials produced: PLANTILLA FINAL DE LA UNIDAD

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