CROSS CURRICULAR PROJECT: RECYCLING AND ENVIRONMENT

WORLD RECYCLING DAY, 17th May, 2024

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, 5th June, 2024

ÁREAS NO ACTIVIDADES & Productos -nales ACTIVIDADES

LINGÜÍSTICAS Departamento
Producto -nal (Ejemplos de productos -nales) y Tipología de textos de inglés

1º ESO MUSIC
Music therapy on the environment.
We will invent music therapy ac6vi6es to prac6ce on the environment.
Final product: Photos and videos

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
We will play di8erent physical ac6vi6es on the environment, such as Ul6mate
or baseball.
Final product: We will take photos of the games.

2º ESO MUSIC Make a

The students will make musical instruments with recycled material. musical
instrument
(6ll in a form)
Final product: ExhibiBon of the musical instruments

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
We will play di8erent physical ac6vi6es on the environment, such as Ul6mate
or baseball.

Final product: We will take photos of the games.

PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY

We will work in class with the help of the language assistant di8erent
presenta6ons where
global warming, the greenhouse e8ect, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer
and air pollu6on
will be explained. In these presenta6ons, students will learn vocabulary related
to the topic and
will learn about the nega6ve consequences of the chemical industry as well as
possible solu6ons
to these problems.
We will also work with the worksheet: CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND THEIR
EFFECTS ON THE
ENVIRONMENT and with the worksheet: CLOZE TEXT: CHEMISTRY AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
This material will support the project, which will consist of the crea6on of
di8erent posters.

FINAL PRODUCT:
CreaBons of several posters that will be exhibited on the walls in the corridor.
3º ESO BIOLOGY & GEOLOGY

“LITTER… HOW DOES IT MATTER?”

Classroom session: 30 minutes for background introduc6on on li:er, screen a

short 6lm on the impacts of li:ering and discuss with the students the problems
associated with li:ering.

Outdoor session: 30 minutes for dividing students into groups of 4-5 members
and for picking up li:er from the high-school (green areas, school yard…)

We try to change a?tudes and behavior regarding li:ering through this ac6vity.
It is our belief that if you pick up li:er, you start discovering the impact that
even the smallest piece of li:er has.

Resources required:

● a short 6lm on the impact of li:ering.

● garbage bags and gloves.

Final product: Photos of the sessions

Students will show the photos taken in the outdoor session to other classrooms
and comment on them in order to raise awareness about the importance of
picking up rubbish, classify waste and care the environment.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

Sustainable transport day (5 June) promo6ng the use of bicycles to come to

school that day or other sustainable transport.

Final products: Produc6on of posters promoBng the use of sustainable

transport: its physical and environmental bene6ts AND the sustainable
transport journal on 5th June

PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY

We are going to elaborate a digital presenta6on that explains in a visual and

auditory way the opera6on and the advantages and disadvantages of a power
plant from the environmental point of view.
Final product:
LeaCets showing the environmental advantages and disadvantages of the
di8erent energy sources
Vocabulary
GEOGRAPHY & HISTORY
revision using
Previous vocabulary working, the students will complete Google form crosswords
ques6onnaire individually, then, aEer sharing the results, there will be a debate and/or word
about the means to promote sustainable development and care for the search related
environment from the daily personal ac6ons of each student.
to
Worksheets: Sustainability I Sustainability II sustainability
and
Vocabulary and gramma6cal contents:
environment
● Present con6nuous tense (daily ac6ons)
 ● Vocabulary: sustainability, eco friendly,recycle, rechargeable, trash,
reusable, organic food, eco-safe labels, compact Cuorescent bulbs, Crossword
planned obsolescence, electronic appliances, consumerism.
Crossword 2
● Func6ons: How to analyze graphics, write informa6on, conclusions and
ummarize important data, etc…Speci6c vocabulary: sustainable
Crossword 3
development, consumism, economic sectors, energy sources
Ac6ons and competences: Wordsearch

● Analyze types of graphics: bars, sectors, pie charts, lines…

● How to summarize important informa6on from visual sources,
interpreta6on of economic graphics, searching informa6on through
books, texts and the Internet.

Final product: Students will write down their personal conclusions aEer the
graphics analysis and what they can do in their daily lives to promote
environmental care.

4º ESO HISTORY
Reading about “UN declaraBon of the human right to a clean, healthy and
sustainable environment”
Final product:
Solu6ons and recommenda6ons for avoiding the massive use of plas6c (in the
central exhibi6on together with the map of the oceanic garbage patch)

1º PHILOSOPHY - Environmental fallacies. Vídeo:

Posters desmontando falacias sobre el medio ambiente. Before the
bachillerato
Kood

Vocabulary
PHYSICAL EDUCATION worksheets:
Prác6ca de la ac6vidad Jsica en el medio ambiente. Save the
Decálogo de acciones para realizar y evitar (Do´s and Don´ts) planet
Environment

Modal verbs:
MUST /
SHOULD

Final product:
Wri:en
expression:
Climate change
is a fake
(For and
against essay)
Other acBviBes in the bilingual project:

Bike riding along the river (4ESO students) 12th June

Central exhibi6on: a map full of plas6c objects mirroring the garbage patch:

OBSERVATIONS:
FINAL PRODUCTS WILL BE EXHIBITED IN THE EXHIBIT HALL.
ALL THE PHOTOS REFERRED AS FINAL PRODUCTS IN THIS PROGRAMME WILL BE DISPLAYED IN THE TV
SCREENS IN THE EXHIBITION HALL TOGETHER WITH A CENTRAL EXHIBITION OF THE OCEANIC PLASTIC IS-
LANDS (THE GARBAGE PATCH)

SITUACIÓN DE APRENDIZAJE MULTIDISCIPLINAR EN EL CENTRO:

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