ESOL Summer School Program
Cooking Chemistry 2003
To maintain student gains and continue to facilitate the acquisition of English, a four week summer program for ESOL students at the beginner level of English proficiency will be offered during the weeks of July 7 through August 1, 2003. This half day program at the secondary school level and five hour program at the elementary school level will focus on learning science content, while developing authentic communicative tasks to promote English language acquisition.
The title of the integrated theme this year will be Cooking Chemistry. Students will read expository text and recipes, conduct research online, develop hypothesis, and write procedural pieces. They will study matter, density, chemical and physical changes and develop scientific vocabulary. While conducting various experiments and creating various foods, students will develop an understanding of how cooking actually relates to science. Daily discoveries, new vocabulary and learned facts will be logged in a journal.
Each of the programs for the three levels have certain elements in common:
•teachers will work with a ratio of one teacher to about 15 students•pre/post testing documenting growth in language acquisition and science content area
•integrated-skill instruction will be content-based and task-based
•instruction will be planned with an integrated theme (CALLA, 1994)
•trips to the Discovery Science Center and/or visits from the Mad scientist will be scheduled throughout the four weeks
Students will read informational texts and learn how to develop and answer questions, take notes, conduct research, skim/scan informational text, write procedural pieces in a recipe format and present an oral presentation to an audience. The thematic unit aims to teach English through the learning of science content and integrate the skills in language arts and math.