Урок "Wild Life and Climate Change around the World"

Topic: Wildlife and Climate change

Date: _________

Teacher: Natalia Krynytska

Class: 6 

Level: Beginner

Time: 45 minutes

Objectives:

• To remind what climate change is
• To develop reading and speaking skills
• To discover how wildlife is at risk from climate change

Key words/vocabulary:

• climate change

• temperature
• wildlife
• wild animals’ names
• adjectives

Materials:

•  printables
•  papers
•  colored crayons / pencils
•  stickers
•  glue

Lesson Overview

Warming Up:

1. A game “Add a word”.         3 min

New Learning and Practice:

1. Individual work.        5 min
2. Making pictures/posters.       5 min
3. Speaking:

• sharing pictures/posters        5 min
• discussion of the ideas.      10 min

4. Writing - speech bubbles.         7 min
5. Optional activity: Speaking Challenge.      3 min

Wrapping Up:

1. A game “Waste No Water”.        5 min
2. Set home assignment.       2 min

Lesson Procedure

Warming Up:

1. A game “Add a word”

One of the students chooses a wild animal to describe. The other students have to add a word to continue describing. The one who can’t add chooses another animal but don’t take part in the game no more.

New Learning and Practice:

1. Individual work

Each child chooses an animal and researches the following questions:

 • Where does this animal live?

 • What is the climate like where this animal lives?

 • What food does this animal eat?

2. Making pictures/posters

Ask each child to draw an A4 picture of their animal, add stickers etc. and write the answers to the questions somewhere on the paper.

3. Speaking:

• sharing pictures/posters

Ask the children to stick pictures on the board and say a few sentences answering the questions “Why did they choose that animal?”, “Is it at risk of climate change?” etc.

• discussion of the ideas

• Ask children if they agree/disagree and why.
• Ask the children to think about how their chosen animal would survive if the climate continues to change.

4. Writing - speech bubbles

• Add a speech bubble to each animal saying what would happen to their habitat and how they would survive if the climate changed.

5. Optional activity: Speaking Challenge

• Ask each child to think of two other species (plants or animals) that would be affected if their chosen animal became extinct.

Wrapping Up:

1. A game “Waste No Water”.

Instruction: Fill a clean open-topped non-breakable container with water for each team; be sure the containers are the exact same size and filled to the brim with water (do not fill to the top for preschoolers). Set a start and finish point. At a signal, the first runner heads for the finish line, walks over the line, turns around and heads back to his or her team, and passes the container to the next person in line. At the end of the race, the team with the most water still in the container is the winner.  

Optional activity: Discuss ways we cannot waste water in our lives!

2. Set home assignment

Ask the children to think if the climate change has an impact on human survival too. Make notes.