Let's make a cheese!!

Template to design a CLIL didactic unit

  Esta Semana Santa pasada tuve la oportunidad de participar en la elaboración de un queso casero. Hice algunas fotos del proceso y he decidido compartir la experiencia con vosotros en esta Unidad Didáctica. Es bastante sencillo de hacer. Se elige la leche de cabra porque su contenido en grasa es mayor y así cuaja mejor. Se compra el cuajo en la farmacia y se sigue un sencillo proceso de elaboración.

Subject: SCIENCE                                      Teacher: José

Title of the Unit: Let’s make a cheese!!                                                              

Level:             2^nd   year at Primary School

  

1. Learning outcomes  / Evaluation criteria	-       To know the cheese and its components. -       To learn where milk comes from. -       To know vocabulary about some animals. -       To know all materials necessary to make cheese at home. -       To learn how to make a cheese in class. -       To make your own cheese.
2. Subject Content	-      The characteristics of the milk and ingredients: milk, curdling agent, salt,       -      The importance of cheese industry       -      The importance and benefits of a good hygiene to work with food.       -      The importance of relationship between cheese and the environment.
3. Language Content / Communication	Children in this Didactic Unit will be workers in the milk production and workers in the cheese industry.
Vocabulary	-       Cheese, board to make cheese, mould, hot water -       Farm, cow, goat, fat content on milk, curdling agent, salt. -       Health practices to make and handle cheese, protection equipment. -       Pot, spoon,
Structures	Routines: -       How do you make a cheese? -       How many ingredients are necessary to make it? -       What do you need to make a cheese? -       Can you explain all the steps to make a cheese? -       It is necessary fat content on milk?    Contents:                    English Language                  Spanish Language L2 -       Health                                  - salud -       the importance of milk         - la importancia de la leche  as a nutrient                          como nutrient -       livestock breeding               - crianza del ganado -       the production of feed         - producción del alimento -       milking process                    - proceso del ordeño -       hygiene principles                - principios de higiene -       the importance of                 - la importancia de la limpieza cleaning and disinfecting        y desinfección -        characteristics of cheese    - características del queso Classrooms management: -       Milk production -       Livestock breeding -       Milk processing -       The composition of milk -       The microorganisms affects to the milk -       The importance of animal feed -       How important the hygiene principles are -       Main microorganisms that play an role -       The importance of cleaning and disinfecting
Language Skills	Reading, listening, writing, speaking
Discourse	Description -       Brief description of the history of cheese. (Could be a good idea to watch a video or some pictures) Exposition -       Explanation about the materials and everything what is necessary to make a cheese. Expressive Discourse -       Children will need to be involved in the presentation of my experience of making cheese according to everything that I learnt.
Recycled language	-       Numbers (1-20) Let’s count! How many cheese are there in this table? -       Colours (different colours of cheese in the world) -       There is /  There are -       How many...? -       Can you...?
Receptive language	-       Who’s this? Where’s ... / What’s this...? -       What colour / number is this? -       Let’s listen to / sing / colour / point to ... -       Open your books at page (5). -       What’s his/her name? -       Can you find the...? -       This is my... -       Tidy your things / toys / books -       Health                                  -       the importance of milk           as a nutrient                          -       livestock breeding               -       the production of feed         -       milking process                     -       hygiene principles                -       the importance of                  cleaning and disinfecting        -        characteristics of cheese    -       Milk production -       Livestock breeding -       Milk processing -       The composition of milk -       The microorganisms affects to the milk -       The importance of animal feed -       How important the hygiene principles are -       Main microorganisms that play an role -       The importance of cleaning and disinfecting
Pictures about the process