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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: is the result of communicative action within certain
social practices, in which the individual acts with other interlocutors and
through texts in multiple modalities, formats and supports.
• Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology.:
implies the ability to apply mathematical reasoning and its tools to describe,
interpret and predict different phenomena in context.
• Digital competence.: involves the creative, critical and secure use of
information and communication technologies to achieve the goals related to
work, employability, learning, use of leisure time, inclusion and participation in
society.
• Learning to learn.: It implies the ability to start, organize and persist in learning.
• Social and civic competences.: the ability and capacity to use knowledge and
attitudes about society, understood from different perspectives, in its dynamic,
changing and complex conception, to interpret phenomena and social
problems.
• Initiative and entrepreneurship.: to transform ideas into acts
• Cultural awareness and expression.: implies knowing, understanding,
appreciating and valuing with a critical spirit, with an open and respectful
attitude, the different cultural and artistic manifestations, to use them as
source of enrichment and personal enjoyment and to consider them as part of
the wealth and patrimony of the towns
I will include these LOMCE standards in my unit plan: (try to find it into your
Autonomous Community curriculum)
Through the unit “world population” we are going to work the next competences
related to the geographic dimension