TULP - Teaching Unit Lesson Plan

Eliana de Brito Alves

Marilia Candido Jacomini

TULP

Ocean

• Habitat
• Animals
• How humans affect ocean animals

Unit Objectives

Students will understand ocean biodiversity, interactions among ocean animals, and humanity`s impact on marine life.

Subunit 1: Habitat

SWBAT...

Content objective:

Recognize the ocean; describe the ocean and identify ocean layers

Language objective: Express writing three sentences about the ocean's layers (deep of the sea, the middle and its surface)

Language Strategy Objective: use a representative scheme of the three ocean's layers to organize their writing.

Subunit 2: Animals

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Content Objective: describe ocean animals, including their life cycle, adaptations, and relationships.

Language Objective: develop the academic vocabulary related ocean animals.

Language Strategy Objective: create a picture dictionary (the students will search some pictures of ocean animals and after write the name of them)

Subunit 3: How humans affect ocean animals

SWBAT...

Content Objective: understand the impact of human action on marine life (i.e., pollution, fishing, hunting, oil spills)

Language Objective: orally discuss on the impact humans have on marine life.

Language Strategy objectives: orally demonstrate the impact of human action on marine life using cards and pictures.