Here is a digital activity designed for a Citizenship-Spanish lesson. It accomplishes the following criteria:
- It is related to integrated aims: Handing out flyers with strategies to to act when we witness bullying.
- The language input is appropriate: A bit upper their actual level, but reachable by means of inferring, accessing the vocabulary bank, looking up words.
- It offers functional language to be used in a Spanish-speaking context where bullying can take place.
- It provides academic language: instructions to sort out the challenges, grammar notions, digital language.
- The content is interesting: in the sense that it is useful to avoid harmful experiences.
- The format is attractive: A "gamificated" digital activity. Screen assured!👌😄
- The format is memorable: Related to real their concerns, practical solutions to real problems, ludic dynamic.
- It provides learners with a vocabulary bank with useful daily expressions for both Spanish and Citizenship areas.
- It includes HOT questions/ processes: Learners reflect about difficult situations and make decisions about how to avoid or solve them. They also need to discuss to reach agreements. They synthetize and reformulate information.
- It promotes critical thinking: The answers they give imply thinking about the long-term consequences of choices. They need to reflect about inclusive language and gender-neutral adjectives and jobs.
- It promotes interaction: Through discussions and through the interactive game.
- It presents real-life scenarios: Bullying.
- It enhances cultural awareness: Showing the steps to follow when suffering from/ witnessing bullying in Spanish schools. It also builds awareness about masculine-feminine and neutral words.
- It is a formative assessment activity about both content-language areas.
- It serves as a self and peer assessment too.