HACETTEPE UNIVERSITYFACULTY OF EDUCATION

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY

SECTION 02

LESSON PLAN

Ahmet Şener - 21141362

Berna Türkoğlu - 21141362

Burçak Aykul - 21240637

Necip Türker Çelebi - 21240771

LESSON PLAN

1. CLASS PROFILE

AGE: 18-19

PROFICIENCY: Intermediate

CLASS SIZE: 20

TIME: 45 min.

GRADE AND SCHOOL: Preparatory Class in Hacettepe University

TOPIC: Nature or Nurture?

2. MATERIALS TO USE

Videos, pictures, computer, internet.

3. AIMS

The students will be able to;

Develop their listening skills. Enhance their vocabulary knowledge. Use technology as a tool for language learning. Develop their speaking skills by discussion activities. Improve their ability of critically thinking Adopt the habits of searching on the internet Write about their own ideas.

4. POTENTIAL OUTCOMES

Students will share their own opinions about the topic. Students will defend their ideas against the counter group. Students will find beneficial websites for their language learning. Students will gain self-confidence about their speaking skills.

5. PROCEDURE

PRE-STAGE

Warm-up (10 minutes)

Teacher comes to class and greets the students. He asks some questions such as ‘how are you?’, ‘Are you happy?’, ‘Do you have any problems?’ Then, teacher shows some photos about children and make the students talk about these photos.

Here are the photos:

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Teacher asks some questions about the photos and their own childhood experiences. For example, teacher shows the picture one and asks whether it is a good behavior or not, whether

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they had a quarrel with their friends. If the answer is ‘yes’, he asks whether they would do it now and what has changed their mind. Or by showing the second pictures, he asks ‘what is the reason that makes them share their ice cream or what is the difference with these four children?’ Teacher shows all the pictures and asks questions about them as well. After he gets the ideas of the students, he tells about today’s topic.

Then teacher goes on with a vocabulary activity to teach some words related to the topic.

WHILE – STAGE

Vocabulary Teaching (12 minutes)

After discussing about students’ childhood, teacher starts the vocabulary activity.

Teacher starts teaching the vocabulary s/he chose about the video and the discussion topic. She tries to teach this vocabulary by an activity using internet. In this activity, the teacher wants students to work in pairs. Each pair will be given one word which they will find one picture and one sentence or paragraph in English about that word. After that, each pair will explain their word to the class. If there is wrong meaning of the word, the teacher will try to correct and explain it with her own pictures or sentences.

Example sites to search the words:

http://www.ldoceonline.com/

http://www.thesaurus.com/

Words: Nature, nurture, innate, experience, education, heredity, environment, genetics, influence, interaction.

Getting into the main activity (13 minutes)

After the vocabulary activity, the teacher will ask the students ideas about a question quickly before showing the videos

- Do you believe in nature or nurture? Which one is more logical for you? Why?

After having general ideas from the students, teacher shows two different parts of the video. Before opening the video, teacher explains that the video is about an experiment on babies and children. He/she tells that the first part is about innate behaviors of babies and the second part is about learned behaviors of children.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIc-4h9RIvY

Parts: 1:47 – 3:54 and 10:22 – 12:00

Fill in the blanks activity

Teacher tells the students to listen to the video carefully to get the general ideas and fill in the blanks.

PART – 1 1:47 – 3:54

…but they can watch puppet shows. And when is part of a new wave researchers who discovered seemingly simple ways to probe what’s really going on in those adorable little heads. We watched as winner and team asked a question. The twenty years ago might have gotten her laugh daughter of field. Does Wesley here at the ripe old age of five months know the difference between right and wrong? Wesley watches as the puppet in the center struggles to open up a box with a toy inside. The puppy in the yellow shirt comes over and lends a hand. Then the scene repeats itself but this time the puppy in the blue shirt calms and slams the box shot. Nice behaviour – Mean behaviour, at least to our eyes. But is that how (1)……………….. all sees it and does he have a preference?

- Do you remember these guys from the show?

To find out a researcher who doesn’t know which puppet was nice and which was mean offers (2)…………. a choice.

- Who do you like?

He can’t answer but he can reach. Wesley chose the good guy and he wasn’t alone. More than three-quarters of the babies tested reached for the nice puppet. Wring tried it out on even younger babies three-months-old who can’t control their arms enough to reach but they can vote with their eyes since researchers’ve shown that even very young babies look longer at things they like.

- Which one do you like?

Daisy here looked at the mean puppet for five second then switch to the nice one (3)………………. .

(4)………………………………….. look towards the nice character and looked hardly at all much much much shorter towards the unhelpful character.

PART – 2 10:22 – 12:00

He showed us one last series of experiments being done in his lab not with babies but with older children of different ages. The kids get to decide (5)………………………… they’ll get versus how many will go to another child. They are told the tokens can be traded in for prizes.

- So you can say green and if you say (6)……….. then you get this one and the other girl doesn’t get any or you can say blue and if you say (7)………… then you get these two and the other girl gets these to you. So green?

(8)…………………… in the study were routinely choosing to get (9) ……………….. for themselves just to get more than the other kid. In some cases a lot more. In the strong cities are obsessed with social comparison.

- So you get (10) ….. she doesn’t get any.

They didn’t care about fairness. What they want is they want relatively more. But a funny thing happens as kids get older. Around 8 they start choosing the equal fair option more and more and by nine or ten we saw kids doing something really crazy, deliberately giving the other kid more. They become generous. Why not to society?

They’ve already been educated. They’ve been educated they’ve been incorporated. They have their heads stuff all over for shoes that might want to head to his stuff.

Answer Key

1. a five-month

2. Wesley

3. for thirty-three

4. Babies even at 3 months

5. how many tokens

6. green

7. blue

8. The youngest kids

9. fewer prizes

10. 7

POST - STAGE (10 minutes)

The teacher shows the videos one more time and explains that they are going to have a discussion activity. The teacher divides the classroom into two groups and writes the discussion topic on the board.

Do you think that human behavior is innate? Or is it shaped through education?

Nature vs Nurture

First group needs to defend that human behavior is innate while the second group needs to defend that human behavior is shaped through education. Teacher explains that students can find additional materials to support their ideas from internet. They can benefit from newspapers or blogs. After students prepare their defense, teacher starts the discussion.

Example websites:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9326819/Nature-vs-nurture-outcome-depends-on-where-you-live.html

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Nature_vs_Nurture

HOMEWORK

Students are required to write a 250 words paragraph about their discussions in the class. Also, they are required to observe the children around them and give some real examples for their claims and explain these examples. They need to post their writings on their class blog (wordpress).