The contents of each learning block are organized into three learning moments: Let’s Get Started, Let’s Understand and Let’s use. Inserted between these are Make a Change (service-learning activities with many opportunities to work using co-operative strategies) in which both communicative and cognitive skills are put into practice. Many of the Let’s Get Started and Let’s Use sections take the form of experimental workshops. This general philosophy of promoting active learning is manifest in the final Making a Change task which integrates knowledge, skills and multiple intelligences.
Social Science takes the CLIL approach to making language and contents accessible with careful scaffolding of language and the visual summarizing of content. There are regular opportunities to review what has been learned.
Attention to diversity is catered for by online testing which can give the teacher a clear and immediate evaluation of the class’s performance by identifying students who may be having difficulties.
Term 11. The relief of Spain 2. Coastal relief Make a change 1 3. The rivers of Spain 4. Climate and landscapes of Spain Make a change 2 5. Population 6. Population changes in Spain 7. Migratory movements 8. Population density Make a change 3 Mind map Summary External exams Making the change Term 21. The long medieval period2. A journey through medieval Spain Make a change 1 3. The Visigoths and arrival of the Muslims 4. Al-Andalus 5. The Christian Kingdoms and the Reconquista Make a change 2 6. The feudal system 7. Society and culture in medieval times 8. Art in the Middle Ages Make a change 3 Mind map Summary External exams Making the changeTerm 31. From the Middle Ages to Modern Age 2. The Catholic Monarchs 3. The discovery of the Americas Make a change 1 4. The 16th century: rebirth of an Empire 5. Economic crisis in the 17th century 6. The 18th century: the Age of Enlightment Make a change 2 7. Culture and society in the Modern Age 8. Art in the Modern Age Make a change 3 Mind map Summary External exams Making the change
