Lesson 9 – How are minicipialities Organized? (Lunes 16 de marzo)
🏛️🗂️ TEMA 9: HOW ARE MUNICIPALITIES ORGANIZED? 🗂️🏛️
🎯🎯 GENERAL OBJECTIVE 🎯🎯
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Students will understand how municipalities in Colombia are organized, recognizing their basic authorities and services, through meaningful learning and collaborative work using simple English vocabulary.
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🧠💬 ACTIVATION OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE 💬🧠
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The teacher asks guiding questions:
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Who helps take care of your city or town?
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Who makes rules in your municipality?
Students share ideas and relate them to people they see in their community, such as police officers or local leaders.
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🎥📺 VIDEO EXPLICATIVO 📺🎥
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📘🏛️ CONCEPTUALIZATION 🏛️📘
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Municipalities are organized to help people live better and safely.
Each municipality has leaders and workers who help the community.
The mayor is the main leader of the municipality. He or she helps organize services like schools, hospitals, parks, and roads.
Municipal workers help keep the town clean, safe, and organized.
Rules are important because they help people respect each other and live in peace.
Basic vocabulary:
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Mayor 🧑💼
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Rules 📜
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Services 🚑
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Community 🏘️
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Help 🤝
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🎨✂️ CLASS ACTIVITIES ✂️🎨
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🔹 ACTIVITY 1: WHO HELPS US?
The teacher shows images of community helpers (mayor, police officer, doctor). Students say simple words like help or service.
🔹 ACTIVITY 2: MATCH AND LEARN
Students match pictures of services (school, hospital, park) with the word municipality.
🔹 ACTIVITY 3: TEAM ROLE PLAY
In small groups, students pretend to be helpers in a municipality and say what they do using simple sentences.
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🔁✨ CLOSURE ✨🔁
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Students repeat key words like mayor, rules, and services. The teacher reinforces that organization helps everyone live better.
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🏠✏️ HOMEWORK ✏️🏠
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Students draw one person who helps organize their municipality and write one word in English (mayor, police, school).
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💖🌟 MOTIVATIONAL PHRASE 🌟💖
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🏛️ Working together makes our municipality better! 💛
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📊📝 EVALUATION RUBRIC 📝📊
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| CRITERIA | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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| Homework Delivery | Rarely delivers homework and shows little responsibility. | Sometimes delivers homework, incomplete or late. | Delivers homework with basic effort. | Delivers homework on time and well done. | Always delivers homework on time with excellent effort and creativity. |
| Punctuality | Frequently arrives late and is not ready to work. | Sometimes arrives late. | Usually arrives on time. | Almost always punctual and organized. | Always punctual and ready to learn. |
| Discipline | Does not follow classroom rules and interrupts activities. | Needs frequent reminders. | Generally follows rules. | Shows good behavior and respect. | Demonstrates excellent behavior and self-control. |
| Proper Use of School Uniform | Does not wear uniform properly. | Uniform often incomplete or untidy. | Uniform acceptable. | Uniform clean and well presented. | Uniform always neat and correctly worn. |
| Knowledge Appropriation | Shows little understanding of municipal organization. | Understands with much help. | Recognizes basic organization roles. | Explains how a municipality is organized. | Clearly explains leaders, rules, and services. |
| Teamwork | Does not cooperate. | Participates with difficulty. | Participates when guided. | Works well with classmates. | Actively supports the group. |
