Materia / Área:
Biology and Geology
Título de la Unidad: The Digestive System Curso / Nivel: 3rd ESO
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Objetivos / Criterios de evaluación
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At the end of this didactic
unit, students should be able to:
1. Know the main nutrients contained in food, and the
different functions they have in the living organism.
2. Know the different parts
in the digestive system and how the digestion process works.
3. Understand the relevance
of carrying out healthy life habits as a measure in the prevention of food- related
illnesses.
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2. Contenido de área /materia
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1. Nutrients:
- Classification of nutrients
2. Food-related illnesses:
- Malnutrition
- Food poisoning
3. Anatomy of the
digestive system:
- The digestive tract
- The associated glands:
Salivary glands liver, pancreas
4. Digestion:
- Physical digestion
- Chemical digestion
- Nutrients absorption
- Egestion
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3. Contenido de
Lengua / Comunicación
(el profesor de área no lingüística (ANL) también prestará atención a
este aspecto)
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Vocabulario
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Key
vocabulary: Ingestion, Nutrition, Nutrients, Supply, Regulate, Fibre,
Form, Balanced, Malnutrition, Contaminate,
Disorder, Deficiency, Lethal, Digestion, Break,
Stomach, Saliva, Paste, Absorb, Faeces, Exchange, Collaborate
“Nutrients”
vocabulary: Food, Water, Minerals, Carbohydrates, Lipids, Fats, Proteins,
Vitamins, Diet, Cereals, Starches, Oil, Butter, Meat, Eggs, Fish, Fruit, Legumes, Milk, Vegetables, Undernutrition, Rickets, Anorexia Nervosa,
Bulimia, Overnutrition, Salmonella
“Digestive system” vocabulary: Mouth, Pharynx, Oesophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine, Large Intestine, Anus, Salivary Glands, Liver, Pancreas, Bile, Pancreatic Juice, Saliva, Gastric Juice, Intestinal Juice, Chime, Chyle
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Estructuras
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Where does this food come from? It comes from...
- We
should (or not) eat...
- We
can find this nutrient in...
- A
healthy meal includes...
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How often do you…? (Always, usually, often, sometimes,
rarely, never)
- Most
people, some people, a few people, nobody...
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Have you ever...?
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What do you prefer...?
· Speaking
or writing about different organs:
- What size is...?. It’s bigger or smaller
than...
- What shape is...? It looks like a...
- Where is it located? It’s located in...
- What
is its function?
- Which system belongs to? It belongs to
the…
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Destrezas /tipo de discurso
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· Exposition
(individual and in group)
· Description
(about different foods, its nutrients, group, systems and organs, illnesses,..)
· Definitions
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4. Elemento contextual y cultural
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· The importance of foods and
diet to the health
· To compare Spanish eating
habits vs British or other European countries
· To know and learn about the
most common scientific concepts related with nutrition and
digestive process
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5. Procesos cognitivos
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-Extract information from
articles, videos, pictures...
-Elaborate conceptual maps and
conceptual presentations
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6. (a). Tarea / s (final)
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During the unit explanation,
students will:
- Analyze articles about food,
Mediterranean diet, healthy habits...
- Extract and comment on
information from these articles
- Extract and comment on
information from slide presentation or videos
- Elaborate conceptual maps
Final
slide presentation: in pairs, explain and describe how the digestion process takes place
in humans
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6. (b). Actividades
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First day:
- Introducing the
unit with a video and a slide presentation
- Brainstorm
Every day:
- Reading the text
- Answer questions
with simple sentences
- Book activities.
- Other
activities: Practise food vocabulary, healthy and unhealthy food, games,
healthy habits worksheet, complete digestive system pictures, speaking,
listening , reading and writing activities
Every two or three
weeks:
- Laboratory activities
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7.
Metodología
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Agrupamientos / distribución de la
clase / temporalización
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Nutrients and
Food-related illnesses: Two weeks (two periods of 55 minutes per week)
Digestive system:
Three weeks (two periods of 55 minutes per week)
In general:
- Introductory
activity: 10 minutes, individual or in pairs.
- Explanations and activities
40.
- Conclusions: 5 minutes
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Recursos / Materiales
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-Student’s book
-Workbook
-Notebook
-Video
-Science workshop (collection
of complementary activities)
-Worksheets
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Competencias básicas
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-Knowledge of and interaction
with the physical world
-Linguistic ability
-Mathematical competence
-Information processing and
digital competence
-Autonomous learning skills
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8. Evaluación
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Criteria:
- Assimilate knowledge about
the main nutrients provided by foods.
- Correctly use of the
vocabulary acquired in order to define the concepts studied.
- Use of computer tools to
consult interactive contents about nutrients and interprets tables and illustrations.
- Know the main parts of the
digestive system and relate each one of these parts to the function it performs in the digestive process.
- Define the key words and
prepare a coherent explanation of how the digestive process takes place.
- Use of computer tools to
consult contents and do the activities.
Instruments:
- Revision of the students
work (once per week).
- Continuous assessment: oral
(daily) and written test (once per unit).
- Self-Assessment/Self-evaluation
- Project presentations:
slide presentations, individual and in group.
- Laboratory activities
worksheets
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