Differentiation Template for the Wonder of New Life P170 in 3Rd and 4Th Class Resource

Differentiation Template for the ‘Wonder of New Life’ P170 in 3rd and 4th Class Resource Materials for RSE

KEY WORDS TO BE TAUGHT / PRE-TAUGHT
Womb / Fertilised / Grow / Egg
Baby / Birth / Centimetres / Months

Using the template below, consider these aspects ofthe lesson given to your students so that all learners can be included in order that they can participate in and benefit from the lesson.

1. DIFFERENTIATE BY CONTENT (In what ways can I vary what I am teaching?)
(A) Complexity of content: (concrete, symbolic, abstract)
Concrete / Symbolic / Abstract
( The teacher could consider asking a woman expecting a baby to visit the class) / Photographs, activity cards, models made out of plasticene / Explain that babies grow and develop in the womb
Develop a sense of the wonder of new life
(B) Variety of resources

Story, photographs, cards with words and images, plasticene, ruler for measuring

(C) Variety of learning environments

School
Home

KEY CONCEPTS IN THE LESSON (OBJECTIVES)
What students must
know or be able to do / What students should
know or be able to do / What students could
know or be able to do
Understand that babies grow and develop in the mother’s womb over 9 months / Understand that there are different stages in the development of the baby
Be able to sequence the cards in the correct order and match them to the description / Understand the concept of growth and change
2. DIFFERENTIATE BY PROCESS (How will I teach the lesson?)

Look at photos
Discuss the children’s own growth and development
Children sequence their own story line
Read a story to the children about the baby in the womb
Children match and sequence the picture and word cards in small groups
Children use a ruler or measuring stick to see how many centimetres the baby is
Answer questions/discuss with the children what they have learned
Option of using plasticene to model the foetus at different stages or using drama/music to act out the movements of the foetus
Give the parents the home-school link page from the lesson

3. DIFFERENTIATE BY OUTCOME / PRODUCT
(How will the student demonstrate understanding?)

Through discussion/question and answer
Through displaying their own time line
Through working in small groups to sequence the cards
Through making models in plasticene or acting out the movements of the foetus in drama

FINALLY - ANY OTHER POSSIBILITIES FOR THIS LESSON?

Invite a pregnant mother in to the school to talk about what it is like
Invite the mother or father of a new baby in to bath the baby and to talk about caring for the baby
Discuss how to care for a new baby
Practice caring for a baby by dressing/bathing dolls