This lesson plan is for a 1.5 hour lesson introducing 3rd grade students to the water cycle. It includes 6 activities: 1) watching an educational video on the water cycle, 2) completing a worksheet about the water cycle, 3) creating individual diagrams of the water cycle, 4) labeling a water cycle diagram in pairs, 5) explaining the water cycle in groups, and 6) playing a water cycle game in pairs. The teacher reflected that the students engaged well with the lesson, though speaking English took some adjustment, and suggested creating more science lessons in English going forward.

1. LESSON PLAN:
THE WATER CYCLE
(CLIL LESSON)
Adriana Belmonte Llagostera

2. INTRODUCTION
• This lesson plan has been created to be applied with
students of 3rd
grade of Primary in a session of 1 hour
and a half.
• In this case, we only have 14 students since we split
the whole group in two.
• They are not used to study Science in English.

3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Students in the class have done some preliminary work on
the topic. During the previous lessons, they have explained
what they know about water and water cycle, they have
learnt and done some experiments about the changes in the
state of water.
This lesson plan is an introduction to the water cycle, so after
this session, they are supposed to do a wider research on the
topic by creating a poster, giving mini-presentations,
studying how much water they spend and waste at home
and analysing their results.

4. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Know what the water cycle consists of.
- Relate the change of states of water to the different levels of the water cycle.
- Know different vocabulary related to the unit:
• Elements involved in the water cycle: Sea, river, lake, rain, hail, snow, ice, water, cloud,
ocean, sun, droplet, mountains, valley, plants, surface, underground, vegetation, soil,
condensed water, steam, earth...
• Verbs: to evaporate, to condense, to freeze, to melt, to change, to form, to heat, to drop, to
cool, to fall, to snow, to rain, to hail, to need, to flush, to boil, to solidificate, to save, to
produce, to wash...
• Adverbs: As, Then, At this stage, After that, When, before, Later, During this process,
Eventually
• States: liquid, solid, vapor, gas.
• Adjectives: hot, cool, freezing, warm, cold, big, small, dirty, clean...
• Instructions: Put in order. Match. Make. Complete...

5. COMPETENCIES INVOLVED
AND ASSESSMENT
Competencies involved:
– Knowledge of and interaction with the natural world.
– Social and civic.
Assessment:
– Oral communication in the class.
– Group work.
– Developement of the proposed activities.

6. LESSON DEVELOPMENT

7. ACTIVITIES
Activity 1: Video Plip & Plop
Activity 2: Water Cycle
Worksheet

8. Activity 3: Water cycle diagram individually
Activity 4: Label a diagram in pairs

9. Activity 5: Explaining the water cycle in groups
Activity 6: The water cycle game in pairs

10. REFLECTIONS ON MY PROJECT
After applying my lesson, I can say that I am very happy about it. It was
sometimes hard, because students are not used to study Science in English
and, at the beginning, they were speaking Catalan instead of English.
But then, when they understood it was important to speak English, they
created really nice group dynamics and the activities were very
interesting.
Firstly, they watched the video: the fact that it was funny made it easier for
them and they enjoy it a lot.
Secondly, we went through all the worksheet about the water cycle. We
created some pictures on the whiteboard to make it clear and a lot of
gestures to help to their comprehension.
Thirdly, they individually answered the first activity. It was a little bit difficult
to understand what they had to do exactly. After some explanation, they
could do it very well.

11. After the individual activity, they worked in pairs to complete a diagram. It
was very difficult for them, so at the end, we did it together. Some of the
answers they filled were right and some were very wrong. At least, they tried
it hard. I am sure I am going to change this activity and make it simpler.
Before playing the last game, they worked together in group of 7 to create a
text to explain the water cycle. They had some sentences to help them
creating the text. It was a good idea to write the sentences. Without them, I
think they hadn’t been able to create a text.
The last activity was playing the Water Cycle Game with the computer and in
pairs. They enjoyed it a lot. It was difficult to understand some of the sentences
it appeared in the game, but the instructions were clear. I was going around
to help them understand the parts they didn’t understand.
I am looking forward to creating more Science lesson plans in English, because
it was easier than I though. They loved it because it was something different
and challenging. I think next year, we could do one or two complete Science
lesson plans in English.