THE WORLD WARS

WebQuest para 6º Curso de Primaria

Conocimiento del medio bilingüe (CLIL)

Diseñada por

Aurora López Gutiérrez

aurallitt@gmail.com

"I believe that the more you know about the past, the better you are prepared for the future."

Theodore Roosevelt

 INTRODUCTION

There were two terrible wars in the 20th Century which involved several countries in different continents.

The world war 1 was fought during 1914-1918, which divided the world into two parts - Allied and Allies. Allies nations were Great Britain, France and Russia, who won the world war 1. The defeated nations were the allied that included Germany, Japan and Italy. World War 2 involved almost all the nations of the world in its span of more than 6 years.

It was estimated that about 50-70 million people were killed in the war. That is more than the population in our country! World war 1 was one of the main causes of the world war 2...

You are going to be a journalist investigating about these two wars, you are going to dig in the most interesting facts of the last century and know the principal characters involved in the wars. You will try to understand its causes and see the different points of view that lead to those conflicts.

The main question I want you to reflect upon is this: Was Spain involved in these two wars? If so, how? And most important, why was/wasn´t?

THE TASK

You are going to do some activities that will improve your knowledge about the two world wars and its causes. Also you will learn some very interesting facts concerning age and gender in war, and why children in England have to move from London and other main cities to the countryside. An the end of the task, you will be ready to know which countries were involved in these wars and why, so you will be ready to answer the main question.

✔ You will complete different activities (maps, conceptual maps, biographies).

✔ Read and reflect on it to adopt a posture and defend it on a class debate.

✔ Look for information in English in the Internet.

✔ Identify the main facts you are required in a text.

✔ Discover controversial facts about war to form your own opinion and write a short articles about it.

✔ Learn the role of women in war and .

✔ Uncover the real role that Spain had in the 2nd world war.

THE PROCESS

✔ Have a look at these maps and complete the next activity:

Download the next map, print it and colour the different block countries!
Have a debate!

✔ Adopt a posture and defend it:

• You are going to be divided in 4 groups in class. You´ll read this links to websites and with that information you will have to take parts in both bands to understand what lead to those wars and defend both postures in class. 2 Groups will defend the allies and the other 2 the allied.

Don´t try and understand everyword, just get the main ideas. You can use a web traslator if you find it very difficult, but anyway, we will work these readings in class so no-one is behind.

✔ Express a personal point of view:

Read this real story and visit the following links in the wikipedia. Also, interview someone in the family that lived in that period of time, to know if they participated in a war (it could be the civil war) and tell you about their experiences. Then, write a short paragraph answering to this question: Why do you think some soldiers lied about their age to join their armies?

✔ Write an essay!

World war I was called “A War to End All Wars”(1914-1918) but that didn´t happen and it all repeated itself again some years later. With all the information about these wars and reflecting in how such a thing of a war can happen you will have to write an article named: “How to avoid world war III”.

"We must remind future generations what happened in 1936-1945, so that we will not make a wrong step again, so that our sons will have a chance to live."

- Wing Commander Guy Gibson

✔ Read about the role of women in the wars and complete the activity:

So many people in World War Two (1939-1945) had many dangerous duties to carry out and performed task on par with men during this period. Here's a look at some of the courageous women in WW2:

The women's role
The children's situation!
- Evacuation
- The Blitz

✔ After reading this links, answer this question: Which Spanish battle inspired the evacuation of English children during the WW2, for fear of the blitz?

Now that you know many facts about these two wars, have a look at these links, gather the information in a conceptual map and answer the quest´s main question:

To know how to do a good conceptual map, visit this website

 EVALUATION

	Excellent	Very good	Good	Needs revising	Points
Reading Understanding	Can understand almost everything he/she reads to complete the tasks sucessfully.	Can understand a good part of the text including some details to complete the tasks.	Can understand the main part of the text but no details so the tasks are uncompleted.	Can´t understand what he/she reads to completed the tasks.	1-4
Writing quality	Can write correctly a short text about a reading or an opinion.	Can write with some mistakes a short text about a reading or an opinion.	Can write with gramatical and spelling mistakes but the main idea is correct.	Can´t write at all so the main idea is properly understood.	1-4
Tasks fullfiling	Can fulfill the tasks properly.	He/she fulfills the tasks with some mistakes.	He/she doesn´t fulfill the tasks completely.	Can´t fulfill at all the tasks.	1-8
Team work (filled in group)	Works properly within the group. The group has divided well the work and everyone has collaborated.	Works adequately within the group. The group has divided well the work but not everyone has collaborated.	Works within the group but only with easy staff and the group has divided the work unequally.	The group has divided the work unequally and he/she doesn´t collaborate, not working properly.	1-8
Dedication	Very dedicated.	Quite dedicated.	Enough dedicated.	Not dedicated at all.	1-4
Conceptual map	Can elaborate a great conceptual map.	Can elaborate an adequate conceptual map.	Can elaborate a simple conceptual map with some parts missing.	Can´t elaborate a decent conceptual map.	1-16

 CONCLUSION

Con esta webquest has profundizado algo más en los sucesos ocurridos en estas dos guerras y las causas que llevaron a ellas. También has descubierto anécdotas interesantes, como el papel de la mujer en las guerras y la evacuación de los niños de las ciudades al campo durante este período bélico.

Con respecto a esto último habréis visto una película de Disney donde se refleja este suceso y es muy conocida: "La bruja novata" ("Bednobs and broomsticks").

 CREDITS & REFERENCES

 TEACHER'S GUIDE

Esta actividad está enfocada para la asignatura de inglés y también se puede trabajar en el ámbito de CLIL. Se encuadra en el Tercer Ciclo de Primaria y más concretamente en sexto. Con estas tareas pretendo sensibilizar a los niños sobre un momento histórico muy concreto y crucial en la humanidad.

OBJETIVOS

• Identificar y diferenciar los países que participaron en los distintos bandos de la contienda.

• Comprender las causas que llevaron a que se desarrollara un conflicto de tal magnitud.

• Argumentar las distintas posiciones y posturas de los países beligerantes, de manera respetuosa y pacífica.

CONCEPTUALES.

• Vocabulario básico relacionado con los textos.

• Sucesos históricos relacionados con estos conflictos.

• Tratamiento de la información obtenida del hecho histórico.

PROCEDIMENTALES.

• Manejar información para argumentar en un debate.

• Completar un mapa geoestratégico.

• Realizar un mapa conceptual.

• Sintetizar información en un pequeño texto.

ACTITUDINALES.

• Respetar y valorar las opiniones de los demás.

• Tener conciencia histórica de lo ocurrido.

• Realizar aportaciones positivas al grupo en un debate.

 La temporalidad de esta webquest sería de 4 horas semanales de Conocimiento del medio e inglés para poder desarrollarla completamente en dos semanas. 

Dada la dificultad de abordar estos textos en inglés y considerando la diversidad de niveles en el idioma en clase, se pueden tratar estos temas antes en español y es recomendable que se utilicen los recursos en inglés para introducir al alumno en la búsqueda de información en esta lengua, pero también pueden buscar la información y traducir la página al español si ven los textos muy complicados.

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