clil unit plan

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CLIL UNIT PLAN
NAME: LETICIA FONTS
SUBJECT: SOCIAL SCIENCE
TITLE: WORLD POPULATION
YEAR: 2nd
ESO
Step 1: The driving question.
• Let’s write down your driving question and why you think this is important.
Are we going to reach the limit of population that can be supported by earth?
It’s a main question nowadays and students are quite interested in that topic and
involve real world and solving a problem is needed
Step 2: The preview of the whole unit
• Preview the whole unit. Take a look at the title, headings, and captions to
obtain 15-20 basic vocabulary that must be internalized by my pupils at the end
of the unit.
- Increase / decrease
- Developed countries / non developed countries / developing countries
- Birth rate / mortality
- Immigration / emigration
- Fertility rate
- Demographic policies: natalist policies / antinatalist policies
- Natural growth
- Migratory balance
- Child mortality
- Life expectancy
- High / low: higher than…
- Population pyramid
- Population density
- Causes / consequences
- Standard of living
- Rich /poor
- Child / young / adults / old people: cohort
- Base / central body, trunk / cusp in a pyramid

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- Women / men /female/male
- Disease
- Average
Step 3: The easiest and hardest section of your unit.
- The easiest: understanding the main items
- The hardest: analyzing a population pyramid
Step 4: Law aspects.
The LOMCE defines 7 competences: (let’s define some aspects of each competences)
• Linguistic competence.
• Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology.
• Digital competence.
• Learning to learn.
• Social and civic competences.
• Initiative and entrepreneurship.
• Cultural awareness and expression.
I will include these LOMCE standards in my unit plan: (try to find it into your
Autonomous Community curriculum)
- Mathematical competence: as we work with rates
- Social and civic competences: as I t is a global problem nowadays
- Digital competence: creating population pyramides and research
- Linguistic competence: as It is based on communication
Step 5: Content
• Which interdisciplinary subjects could be connected to in this unit? Why and
how?
- Mathematics: rates, averages…

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Steps 6: Soft Skills.
• I will include these soft skills in my unit plan:
o Teamwork
o Giving and receiving feedback
o Organizing
o Communication
o Critical thinker
o Emotional intelligence
o Problem solving