Items U.D OUR GALAXY

1. OUR GALAXY
TEACHER: Ángela González
Course / Level: 4th Primary

2. 1.Learning outcomes/Evaluation criteria
• To learn the names of celestial bodies in our galaxy.
• To understand the differences between celestial bodies.
• To identify the eight planets in the solar system.
• To learn about the key features of the eight planets.
• To understand that Earth rotates on its axis.
• To do an experiment to show why day changes to night.
• To learn how the inclination of the Earth’s axis causes changes in the seasons.
• To find out and write about the planets in our solar system.
• To acquire habits to recognise different celestial bodies.
• To respect oneself and others.

3. 2.Subject content
• Identify the different celestial bodies: Sun, planets, asteroid,
comet...
• Recognize the eight planets in our solar system.
• Earth’s rotation: Day and night.
• The moon, earth’s only satellite and its phases.
• The Earth orbits around the sun: Seasons.
• Respect for the environment and the need of protect it by saving
energy.

4. Language content/ Communication
Vocabulary
• Nouns: universe, space, the Solar System, the Sun, the Earth, the
Moon, planets, satellite, moon, star, astronaut, spaceship, rocket,
season, telescope, weather, axis, crater, the Milky Way, galaxy, ring,
revolution, rotation, full/ new/first quarter/last quarter moon…
• Verbs: to blast off, to land, to move around, to spend, to fly, to
orbit, to live…
• Adjectives: big, small, near, far, gassy, rocky, outer, inner, shiny,
dwarf, powerful, dark, big, cold, far, hot, small…
• Prepositions: around, between…

5. Structures
Content:
• Comparatives: Venus in smaller than Jupiter.
• Descriptions: It is…/ It has got… : The Earth is
medium size. It has got one moon.
• Can/ can't: Astronauts can travel to the Moon but
they can't go to the Sun.
• Present simple: Planets move around the
Sun/Stars have different size.
• Such as…

6. Classroom management:
• How do you say in English …?
• Can you repeat it, please?
• I don't understand it/ I don't know.
• I think …
• Is the Moon a planet? Yes, it is / No it isn't.
• Has Mercury got 5 moons? Yes, it has/ No it
hasn't

7. Discourse type
• Exposition
• Narration
• Description

8. Language skills
• Reading
• Listening
• Speaking
• Writing

9. 4. Contextual (cultural) element
Pupils will be able to…
• Value the importance of our galaxy knowledge.
• Appreciate English as the vehicular language of the
learning process.
• Access and communicate information using different
supports including ICT tools to learn.
• Raise questions to investigate them.

10. 5. Cognitive (thinking) processes
Pupils will be able to…
• Create, initiate develop and assess individual or
collective activities with creativity, confidence,
responsibility and critical thinking.
• Transform information into knowledge activating
thinking skills in order to organize, relate, analyze,
synthesize, make inferences and deduct at
different levels of complexity.