PREHISTORY: MY FIRST AND NOT LAST CLIL UNIT.

I love history and geography, so I decided to make a CLIL unit based on one topic of these amazing subjects: prehistory for the 1st year of ESO. In this school year students study the Palaeolithic, the Neolithic and the Bronze and Iron Ages. In my unit we are going to study the different lifestyles and the art that people created at that period. 

The main objectives of this unit are: 

•              To know who Charles Darwin was and his natural selection theory.
•         To recognize the family tree of the hominids.
•         To understand the evolution process.
•          To know how people lived in the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze and Iron Ages.
•          To recognize different tools from the different periods.
•        To recognize the Art in these Prehistory periods. 

The unit is divided in 9 sessions, and the students are mainly going to work in pairs and in groups. If it was possible, it would be very interesting visiting the Archeological Museum in Alcoy, la Sarga and Beneito Cave; they are very near and a school trip would be perfect in order children learn about prehistory. 

1st session  Discovering the period and Charles Darwin

First, we are going to establish the period that we are studying; therefore, we are going to draw a timeline using www.dipity.com.

There is a lot of information about this important scientist; we are going to use different videos and presentations to look for information about him: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/darwin_charles.shtml, 

http://www.biography.com/people/charles-darwin-9266433, 

http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/observe/video/fiche/darwin-on-the-evolution-trail.html

The last task is to interview Charles Darwin, then, students are going to complete a questionnaire and finally they are going to prepare the interview. 

2nd session  

Students are going to interview Charles Darwin and then, we will start with the next activity,. looking at this video of the Stone Age

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUNe5SEqDw8

and this Power Point presentation: http://presentations.phillipmartin.info/social_studies/stone_age.php 

To learn about tools http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/stone-age-toolkit.html

With all this material, in groups, students are going to prepare some false/ true sentences using educaplay in order to change the sentences between groups to answer them. 

3rd and 4th sessions 

We are going to continue learning about Neolithic and Paleolithic looking at some vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/subject/prehistory/ Here, students will find flashcards about the topic. 

In this session and with all the material, students are going to prepare a game like Who wants to be a Millionaire? . First,  we are going to watch a video to help us with this task; then they will prepare the questions and we play the game. 

5th session  

Do you like Art? In this session we are studying the art in the Paleolithic and Neolithic. We are going to start looking for photos on the Internet and looking for information about the most representative art of those periods. After this session, students have to prepare a presentation where they will have to explain what they have found and the main characteristics of the prehistory art. They are going to visit: http://museodealtamira.mcu.es/

http://www.alcoi.org/es/areas/cultura/museo

After this session, we are going to do the school trip to La Sarga, Beneito Cave and the Archaeological museum in Alcoy. 

6th and 7th sessions 

In these two sessions, the groups are finishing their presentations and they are going to present them to the rest of the class. 

8th session

Students are going to look at these Power Point presentations about the Bronze Age and the Iron Age:

http://presentations.phillipmartin.info/social_studies/bronze_age.php

http://presentations.phillipmartin.info/social_studies/iron_age.php

And finally, they are learning about life in the Iron Age. Here they are going to do different activities to learn about life in that period: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/ironage_life/index.shtml

9th session

We are going to use this last session to evaluate our job. Students are going to use a matrix of evaluation and they are going to do a final test with some questions about the topic.