Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

PRACTICAL CLASS
Today we continued with the Interdisciplinary Activities.

-Miriam, Chusa & Elisa: 

I like very much this activity because it is a good conexion between PE and Geography about Spain. It is a perfect game for children in order to learn the autonomous communities and the provinces.

In this game each of us are a community or a province. We have to do different physical exercise and also we have to memorize who community or province are the rest of the class. Later the teacher ask a question such as: What is the capital of Spain?. And people have to catch the person who is Madrid. So this game promote memorization. 

I would not change nothing about this game. I think that is perfect in order to learn two subject at the same time. 

-Anna & Azahara:

I think that this Activity is a good connexion between Science and PE because it is based on evolution and we have to do exercise in the activity. First you are an ameba and you have to do the movement that the amoeba does, later you are a crap with his movement, later a frog with his movement and later a human with his movement. This game promotes  imagination because children have to do the movement of each step of evolution and later the teacher say them the correct movement in order to improve the physical activity. Moreover, this game promotes cooperation in order to evolve. 

I think that is an excellent game because at the end children can see that always there are all the steps of the evolution. 

-Almudena Bellot & Pablo:

In mi opinion this game is difficult to understand, I mean, when we played I did not know how I had to do. I have not seen the physical activity because we had to imitate an animal and later we had to write the name in a paper and runned to correct it. The group who finished first was the winner. So it promotes competitions between groups. I think that children can not learn anything from this game, which I think that is one of the purpose of this activity. 

This game is a way to measure the knowledge. I think that this activity needs to improve in the objectives of the activity and in the final goal.

-Gemma & Almudena López: 

In this game the teacher assigned a number to each child and they have to separate in two groups taking into account if you are a even or odd number. Later by gestures the memembers of the group have to put from low to high age. I think that this game is perfect for the firsts days of the school because ir improves cooperation between children. And they can meet each other. Nevertheless, this game is not appropriate for a PE class because it does not promote physical exercise. My suggestion for this game would be to add some physical exercise. 

-Anna & Belén:

In this game we have to make couples and the teachers assigned us an animal and we have to imitate it. The other person of the couple has to guess what animal you are. The game consists on the number of animals that you guess.

I do not really see the conexion between physical education and another subject. Also I do not see the physical activity in this game. So my suggestion would be to add physical exercise and something to be teach. For example to imitate mammal, reptiles, ocean animal etc. And children are going to learn the different kind of animals.