Standards:
Major Standards —1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1.
Brief Summary of Unit (including curricular context and unit goals):
Students will explore leisure time activities that are popular and are engaged in throughout the Americas . Students will use prior knowledge of clothing and weather. In addition, students will learn new vocabulary associated with the seasons and adjectives appropriate to the pastime activities. A major goal will be for the student to be able to present orally and in writing their favorite activity.
Number of days for activity: four weeks
Materials and resources (including technology and multimedia): song from Cantando We Learn: “Los Meses del Año”, teacher-made flashcards and work sheets, book Los Zoomies y los deportes (by Kiki Kaye, Laredo Publishing)
Identifying Desired Results
• What essential questions will guide this unit and focus teaching/learning?
What sports or activities do the students think were played during the time of Spanish Exploration?
What are the seasons of the year?
What sports and activities are played today?
What words could be used to describe these activities?
What indigenous sports were discovered by the explorers?
• What enduring understandings are desired?
Students will understand…
• Students will explore the commonalities between the sports of today and those activities popular during the time of exploration.
• The interrelationship that exists between season, sports and activities, weather and clothing.
• What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know… Students will be able to… (include all relevant structures, grammar, vocabulary, etc)
• Students will be able to name the seasons.
• SW be able to name the clothing and weather associated with each season.
• SW be able to name some famous Hispanic athletes and the sports they play.
• SW be able to describe sports and activities using appropriate adjectives.
• SW be able to use the verbs: jugar, gustar, usar, llevar as well as the following new vocabulary: estación, primavera, verano, otoño, invierno, el baloncesto, la lucha libre, el béisbol, el boxeo, el fútbol, el golf, el fútbol americano, montar en bicicleta, el hockey, montar a caballo, esquiar, saltar la cuerda, el esquí acuático, bailar, patinar, mirar la televisión, patinar en hielo, leer, nadar, la natación, el voleibol, el tenis, la gimnasia, correr, hablar con amigos, popular, excelente, fácil, difícil, aburrido/a, interesante, divertido/a, emocionante, adentro, afuera.
• SW be able to respond to the following new structures: ¿Qué estación es? ¿En qué estación (juegas, llevas, usas)? ¿Cuál es tu (estación, deporte)(menos) favorito/a? ¿Cuáles son los meses de ___? En tu opinion, cómo es ____ ¿Te gusta (jugar, mirar) _____? ¿Juegas ___? ¿Qué persona famosa juega ___?
• What do they already know that will help them learn new information? Where and when did they learn it?
• Weather G2
• Clothing G2 & G3
• Adjective agreement G3
• ¿Te gusta ___?
Determining acceptable evidence
• What evidence will show that students understand?
Performance Tasks: Oral/written project
Quizzes, Tests, Prompts, Work Samples:
Unprompted Evidence (observations, dialogues):
Student Self-Assessment:
Lessons:
Links to Relevant Web Sites: In progress
Assessment Blueprint (Performance Tasks)