AN INTEGRATED LESSON OF SURROUNDING WORLD LEARNING “A TOY FOR CHILDREN: AN ANIMAL, MATERIAL AND A PHENOMENON IN ONE”

Abstract

The analysis focuses on sharing experience about a lesson of surrounding world learning, which was prepared and delivered to 4th formers. An idea for the lesson was born having found a plastic toy-fish in the toys’ shop. Moreover, an accordingly polished element of this fish refracts light. This is a lesson of natural sciences, where one object will be analysed connecting knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics. The lesson has clear structural parts: evocation, realization of meaning and reflection. During the lesson schoolchildren were active participants in the process of education. Firstly, they shared their knowledge and experience about fish. Having listened to the teacher’s explanation and story, children reflected on the new content. Later they investigated oil, the raw material this plastic toy is made of, as well as qualities of plastic as material. Finally, they got acquainted with refraction of light. The learners were asked to record the possessed and newly acquired information in the activity sheets as well as to reflect on it. The generalised data from the learners’ activity sheets after the lesson allow to approach this lesson not only from teaching but also from learning positions. Key words: activity sheets, integrated lesson, natural science lesson, primary school.