Didactic unit for CLIL schools: We can move. The locomotor system. Subject: Natural and Social Science Year: 3rd Primary

1. DIDACTIC UNIT:
WE CAN MOVE. THE LOCOMOTOR
SYSTEM
SUBJECT:
Natural and SocialScience
YEAR:
3rd Primary
TEACHER:
Salvador Javier MirallesVerdú
CLIL Project

2. Template to design a CLIL didactic unit
Subject:
SCIENCE
Title of the Unit
Teacher: SALVA MIRALLES
OUR BODY: WE CAN MOVE
Course / Level: 3rd Primary
1. Learning outcomes
To revise the parts of the body from previous years.
/ Evaluation criteria
To identify parts of the locomotor system and its functions.
To identify bones, muscles and joints.
To distinguish the characteristics and functions of bones, muscles and
joints.
2. Subject Content
Our body is made up of our head, torso and limbs.
We can move our body.
We need our muscles to move our bodies.
We also need other things to move: bones and joints.
We have got a locomotor system.
The locomotor system lets us move.
All the bones in our body make up the skeleton. This is our skeletal
system.
We have muscles around many of these bones.
3. Language Content / Communication
Vocabulary
- Nouns: system, muscle, bone, joint, knee, shoulder, neck, ankle, wrist,
elbow, hip, skeleton, head, torso, limbs, body.
- Verbs: move, stand up, sit down, walk, run, jump, swim,exercise.
- Adjectives: locomotor, skeletal
- Prepositions: up, down, around, with, of.
Structures
- What part of my body can I exercise?

3. - Which part of your body are you using?
- Can you feel your muscles?
- What’s a joint?
- Which joints are you using?
- Can you tell me the joints in our bodies?
- What does the locomotor system include?
- What is the name we give to all the bones in our body?
- Let’s investigate.
- This is… / These are…
Discourse type
Description of the locomotor system.
Description of the skeletal system.
Language skills
4. Contextual
element
Reading, listening, speaking and writing.
(cultural) This unit is about our body. They can identify their own body and the
parts of it.
5. Cognitive (thinking)
processes
Scaffold, understand, repeat, analyse, explain.
6. (a) Task(s)
The final task consists on describing how their body moves. They are
going to label the parts of the body we use to move in a poster. Then,
they can act an easy play out in small groups to the rest of the class
explaining how their body moves and the name of the parts they are
moving.
6. (b) Activities
1. Look at a picture and revise the vocabulary from previous years by
writing the missing vowels.
2. Watch a short slide show (Bones, joints and muscles), without too
many words.
3. After that, we watch the video “Body parts chant (This is … / These
are…) and play the game ‘Labelling game’.
4. Complete the sheet by labelling the joints in our body.
5. We now watch a show about “The locomotor system” and they read
and listen to “The parts of the body” (at Andalucía’s CLIL unit). Then,
they complete the blank spaces (page 11). We can use the previous

4. pages (from 6 to 10) as reminders, but they also can help our students
to scaffold the information: they review the already studied parts of the
body by doing activities of ordering, classification or filling the spaces
after reading:
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/descargasrecursos/aicle/ht
ml/pdf/025.pdf
6. Then, they read and explain with their own words an “issuu” show
about the locomotor system.
7. To finish, they watch the song “Superman Dance” and, following the
instructions, they move. Their final task is, in small groups, to write a
version of the “Superman Dance”. They have to use the parts of the
body they have just learnt that didn’t appear on the video.
7. Methodology
Organization and class 2 sessions and the final task in small groups to act or sing and dance
distribution / timing
their “Superman Dance” versions.
At the end of the class, we can play an online Memory game with
several options (only wordcards OR flashcards, wordcards AND
flashcards, …):
http://www.angles365.com/classroom/fitxers/3r/body/body2.swf
Resources / Materials
1. Look at a picture to revise the vocabulary from previous years by
writing the missing vowels. This could be one of it: http://www.kidspages.com/folders/worksheets/Body/Body.jpg
2. Watch this slide show (Bones, joints and
muscles):http://www.scienceandenglish.com/Recursos/Descargar/3
3. Play the game ‘Labelling game’:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/health_games/body_parts/label
ing.html
4. Watch the video “Body parts chant (This is … / These are…):
http://youtu.be/4-T9QuldVOw
5. Complete the sheet by labelling the joints in our body:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wavp32qptt3w080/Our%20joints%20WS%
20SalvaMiralles.pdf
6. Watch the following show about “The locomotor system”:
http://www.scienceandenglish.com/Recursos/Descargar/407
7. They read and listen to “The parts of the body” (Andalucía’s CLIL unit).

5. Then, they complete the blank spaces (page 11). We can use the
previous pages (from 6 to 10) as reminders, but also they can help our
students to scaffold the information: they review the already studied
parts of the body by doing activities of ordering, classification or filling
the spaces after reading:
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/descargasrecursos/aicle/ht
ml/pdf/025.pdf
8. Then, they read and explain with their own words this show on issuu:
http://issuu.com/cesarbrazo/docs/science_3rd_grade__unit_2__locomotor_system_
9. They watch the song “Superman Dance” and, following the
instructions, they move: http://youtu.be/eUb3oz9byZA
10.In small groups, they write a version of the “Superman Dance”. They
have to use the parts of the body they have just learnt that didn’t
appear on the video.
Key Competences
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8. Assessmentcriteria and
tools
In linguistic communication.
In processing information and use of ICT.
In knowledge of and interaction with the physical world.
In social skills and citizenship.
Learning to learn.
Cultural and artistic competence.
Online activity to label the parts of the body:
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/sites/kids/files/attachment/sk
eleton-activity_0.pdf
The final task will be assessed following the criteria of saying properly
the names of the parts of the body and the use of at least one new word
for each part of their body and the creativity and originality when
writing the song.
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http://es.creativecommons.org/blog/licencias/