This document outlines a two-part lesson plan on ecology for a group of 30 first-year bachillerato students aged 16-18. The plan focuses on recycling, reducing, and reusing materials. In the first part, students brainstorm ways to categorize environmentally related words and research recycling methods in small groups. In the second part, each student explains how to reuse a material and the group creates a Prezi presentation, then an online test evaluates students. The goal is for students to understand how to be better caretakers of the environment.

1. ECOLOGY
UNIVERSIDAD ISABEL I DE CASTILLAUNIVERSIDAD ISABEL I DE CASTILLA
MERCEDES ROMANILLOS ANDRÉS.MERCEDES ROMANILLOS ANDRÉS.

2. GENERAL INFORMATION
1) Group:1) Group:
- 30 students
- First-year bachillerato
- From 16 to 18 years old

3. GENERAL INFORMATION
2) Topic:Topic: lesson on ecology
A) to recycle
B) to reduce
C) to reuse

4. GENERAL INFORMATION
3) Use of English3) Use of English
A) NounsA) Nouns: glass, plastic, cloth, paper, global warming, rubbish,
pollutants, chemicals, ecological disaster, deforestation,
smoke, petrol, air pollution, environmentally-friendly.
B) VerbsB) Verbs: to pollute, to decompose, to harm, to care about, to
protect, to destroy, to damage, to save, to increase, to
reduce.
C) GrammarC) Grammar: Future Simple, be going to, Future continuous,
Future Perfect Simple.
D) ReadingD) Reading: websites on the Internet.
E) ListeningE) Listening: TED talks and classmates projects.
F) WritingF) Writing: expressing causes and consequences of polluting
(as a result, due to, consequently, because of…)

5. GENERAL INFORMATION
4) Skills4) Skills
- ListeningListening: online videos and workshops
uploaded on Prezi.
- SpeakingSpeaking: brainstorming, group dynamics of the
topics, and development and record the task.
- ReadingReading: gather information from web sites and
other students’ presentations.
- WritingWriting: workshop’s development.
- ICTICT: discrimination of useful information, task
creation on the computer.

6. LESSON PLAN (two sessions)
1) BRAINSTORMING: environment. Students
write on the word as many words as they can
think of related to the environment. After
that, the teacher writes on the board the
following words “recycling”, “re-using” and
“reducing, erases the words that do not
connect to the topics, and asks the students to
group them into these groups. (15minutes)

7. LESSON PLAN (two sessions)
2) GRADING CRITERIA EXPLANATION (7 minutes)
 Output:Output:
pronunciation 10%
• Speaking giving opinion 10%
fluency 10%
• Writing use of valid information 10%
grammar 10%
 Input:Input:
– Listening: comprehension 10%
– Reading: comprehension 10%
 Final version on Prezi 20%
 Final test on Hotpotatoes 10%

8. LESSON PLAN (two sessions)
3) INTRODUCTION: main terms definition for further students
autonomous work and suggestion of some videos. (5 minutes).
4) TREASURE HUNT: the teacher splits the students into three
groups of ten people and shows this web page to them:
http://www.wikihow.com/Know-What-to-Recyclehttp://www.wikihow.com/Know-What-to-Recycle.
Each group will be in charge of one topic (to recycle, to reduce or to
reuse) and will think of more ideas to reduce, recycle or re-use the
materials we usually waste in our daily life. The will search for
information during this time too. (25 minutes)

9. LESSON PLAN (two sessions)
5) REAL WORLD (to start off the second lesson):
discussion of questions related to topic to put their
learning into practice. (20 minutes)

10. LESSON PLAN (two sessions)
6)PREZI: each student from each group will choose a
material and will have to think of a way of reusing it,
recycling it or reducing its consumption. They will
also have to explain the benefits or the
consequences that this will cause to the world. Later,
they will have to make a common workshop and
share it on Prezi. They will have to record their
explanations for the other students to listen to and
learn them. (40 minutes and at home)

11. LESSON PLAN (two sessions)
7) HOTPOTATOES: the students will be evaluated by
taking an online test on HotPotatoes (at home).

12. INTRODUCTION
• DefinitionsDefinitions according to Cambridge Dictionary
– To recycle: “to collect and treat rubbish in order
to produce useful materials that can be used
again”.
– To reuse: “to use something again”.
– To reduce: “to make less, smaller, ect”.

13. REAL WORLD
A) What kind of rubbish can be recycled in Spain? How can
you recycle it? What does it happen next?
B) Which ways of reusing materials can you think of? Give
examples.
C) How about reducing the waste of polluting materials?
D) How many tones of rubbish is produced in your city per
day? Per month? Per year?
E) What are the consequences of the production of rubbish on
the earth?
F) Have you heard of any country that has a better recycling
system than Spain?
G) How could we improve ours?

14. USEFUL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS
• Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials:
http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_surace_fixing_drywall_to_heal_the_planet
• Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant
that can, and does, recycle any kind of plastic.
http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_biddle
• Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in
the ocean and in our lives — and some thoughts on how to free
ourselves from the plastic gyre.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dianna_cohen_tough_truths_about_plastic_
pollution
• Nine-bin recycling system introduced.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenerliving/7627055/Nine-
bin-recycling-system-introduced.html
• Recycling in Spain
http://www.spanishunlimited.com/spain/culture/2014/11/recycling-in-
spain

15. REFERENCES
• http://www.wikihow.com/Know-What-to-
Recycle
• http://dictionary.cambridge.org/