KL+Learning+Centers

“Un día en una hora”

Level: Spanish I

Description: In this lesson, students will follow a schedule to rotate between four different learning centers. Three will be based on actual classes, and will contain brief assignments for the students to complete. At the fourth, students will review with the teacher in preparation for their test.

Rationale: The purpose of this lesson plan is to give students a chance to apply their Spanish knowledge, limited though it may be at this point, to other subjects. Students will be motivated not only by receiving credit in multiple classes for their assignments, but by the change of pace, and by seeing the tasks that they are able to accomplish using their Spanish skills. This will give them practice with slightly more academic language than they have had practice with before.

Objective: Students will be able to complete very basic assignments in other subject areas using the skills they have acquired in Spanish. This will be evaluated by their completion of the assignments at each station.

Standards addressed: 1.2.N.L.a- Demonstrate understanding of oral classroom language in the target language including directions, commands, and requests. 1.2.N.R.b- Understand main idea of simple accessible written materials in the target language such as, textbook passages, age-appropriate magazine and newspaper articles/ads, websites/internet, poetry or stories. 3.1.N.a- Reinforce previously learned content knowledge through the target language.

Materials: Printed schedule sheet for each student, coordinating materials from other content area teachers.

Procedure: 1. Hand out schedules and describe learning centers (students will have been “warned” in the previous lesson that this is coming)- 3 minutes 2. Students move through learning centers- 10 minutes at each station (40 minutes total, plus about 2 minutes total for moving between stations): Stations 1-3- “School” Stations: The students will then complete a brief assignment in Spanish related to the class, as though they are going through their normal school day, but in a Spanish-speaking context (given assignments are just examples- obviously these assignments would vary based on the content being covered in the other classes the students are taking). Station 4- Teacher Station: Because the test is the following day, their time with the teacher will give students the opportunity to ask questions, review concepts, and go over feedback from assignments to prepare them. 3. Have students return to their seats to finish any incomplete assignments from the different stations and ask any final review questions- 10 minutes
 * Math- students will do basic algebra, giving their answers in word form (i.e. quince for 15) to practice numbers.
 * Social Studies- students will read (with a vocabulary guide) a brief article about Mexico from the era they are studying in history and answer 2-3 questions about it.
 * Science- students will apply what they have learned in the chapter about descriptions to describe microscope slides.

The mini-assignments from each station will be turned in for dual credit in Spanish and the content-area classes.